ShoeCase: A data set of mock crime scene footwear impressions.

ABSTRACT: This project's main objective is to create an open-source database containing a sizeable number of high-quality images of shoe impressions. The Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) team collected images that represented those found at crime scenes and constructed a database that is publicly available to forensic science and research communities. The database includes images obtained from mixed impression types: full blood impression, partial blood impression, and dust impression. The impressions are made on different flooring (vinyl and tile), and captured via various lift techniques: gel lifts and handiprints (exemplar prints with high definition using graphite powder and clear sticky vinyl, backed by a white sheet), and saved in multiple digital file types

SUBMITTER: Tibben A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10539887 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature