13
Nov
'08
CECS maths expert in US death-row case
Professor Richard Hartley, who specialises in computer vision at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was recently called as an expert witness in a US death-row case to overturn a conviction of murder. Professor Hartley analysed video surveillance footage of the crime and, based upon his mathematical expertise, concluded that the accused murderer could not have killed the victim because the fuzzy video footage was of a another man who was several centimeters shorter than the convicted killer. The defence lawyers are arguing that the crime was instead committed by an accomplice.
Read more in the Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 2008
