Credits
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Copyright 2011-2013 University of Lausanne, Switzerland

PiAnoS 4 was funded in part by a grant from the `National Institude of Justice <http://www.nij.gov/>`_. 

	National Institute of Justice – Office of Justice Program
	
	Fundamental Research to Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines 
	Solicitation # SL000909 Award 2010-DN-BX-K267
	
	`Improving the Understanding and the Reliability of the Concept of "Sufficiency" in Friction ridge Examination`


**Development:**
Thibault Genessay (UNIL)

**Scientific committee:**
	- Christophe Champod (UNIL)
	- Cédric Neumann (Penn State University, US)
	- Glenn Langenburg (UNIL)

If you are using PiAnoS
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For teaching, research, etc. acknowledgments are very welcome !

History
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Previous releases (1, 2 and 3.x) were the work of

	- Julien Furrer (1-2)
	- Romain Voisard (1-2)
	- Christophe Champod (1-3)
	- Thibault Genessay (3.x)

We would like to acknowledge early contributors to the previous versions of PiAnoS, namely:

	- the `University of Lausanne <www.unil.ch>`_, through the `Fonds d'Innovation Pédagogique`, awarded [#f1]_ in 2007 (version 1)
	- the `Technical Support Working Group <http://www.tswg.gov/>`_ and the `National Institute of Justice <http://www.nij.gov/>`_, sponsors of the project `A TOPOLOGICAL MODEL FOR THE EVIDENTIAL VALUE ASSESSMENT OF PARTIAL FINGERPRINTS` [#f2]_ (version 2)
	- the (now defunct) Forensic Science Service of the United Kingdom (version 3)
	
	
.. rubric:: Footnotes

.. [#f1] PiAnoS: Picture Annotation System (2007), un système en ligne transdisciplinaire d'annotation d'images à des fins pédagogiques. En partenariat avec le RISET, Université de Lausanne
.. [#f2] Contract number: “NIJ / TSWG contract: IS-FE-2478 - W91CRB-06-C-5005”
