Watch your step! A frustrated total internal reflection approach to forensic footwear imaging.

ABSTRACT: Forensic image retrieval and processing are vital tools in the fight against crime e.g. during fingerprint capture. However, despite recent advances in machine vision technology and image processing techniques (and contrary to the claims of popular fiction) forensic image retrieval is still widely being performed using outdated practices involving inkpads and paper. Ongoing changes in government policy, increasing crime rates and the reduction of forensic service budgets increasingly require that evidence be gathered and processed more rapidly and efficiently. A consequence of this is that new, low-cost imaging technologies are required to simultaneously increase the quality and throughput of the processing of evidence. This is particularly true in the burgeoning field of forensic footwear

SUBMITTER: Needham JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4754702 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature