West Virginia University WVU 2019 HQ/CS Dataset

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Copyright (c) 2021 West Virginia University. All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without
license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
dataset (the images, and summary files) and its documentation for any 
purpose, provided that the copyright notice in its entirety appear in all 
copies of this dataset and the original source of this dataset 

West Virginia University must be acknowledged in any publication that 
reports research using this dataset. The dataset is to be cited in the 
bibliography as:

Lin, E.-T., DeBat, T., Speir, J.A., West Virginia University 2019 High Quality
and Simulated Crime Scene Dataset, Release #1; Release Date November 2021, 
https://www.4n6chemometrics.com/Downloads/WVU2019.

The production of this dataset is fully detailed in a supplementary publication.
These details should be cited in the bibliography as:

Lin, E.-T., DeBat, T., Speir, J.A., A simulated crime scene footwear impression
database for teaching and research purposes. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14933.

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Please contact Jacqueline Speir (Jacqueline.Speir@mail.wvu.edu) if you have 
any questions. This investigators on this research were: En-Tni Lin, Tabitha 
DeBat and Jacqueline Speir - WVU, Department of Forensic & Investigative Science
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The release comes with the following files:

* This readme file containing copyright information and usage information.
* An Excel file describing the outsoles and impressions.
* A QA checklist of observations.
* File folders: Blood, Dust (Film, Paper), Lefts, Outsole Scans, Test_Impressions
* Note that none of the "lefts" have been registered nor background subtracted.  They
are included as close non-matches, but without pre-processing.