“…During the last two decades, new innovative 3D surface topological scanning microscopy has been developed with the potential to improve physical matching. Different 3D acquisition systems, employing 3D laser scanners, optical coherence tomography, stylus scanning instruments, and confocal microscopy, have been utilized for forensic evidence identification applications [19,26,29‐43]. Automated surface acquisition and matching processes utilizing 3D topography data have demonstrated promising improvements in the objectivity of the comparison process [34].…”