Wednesday, February 17, 2016

New software to identify traces of shoes – Romandie.com


High School in Lucerne and Forensity SA have developed software capable of identifying footprints incomplete shoes at the scene of crime. These traces are introduced into a database to detect serial criminals.

soles profiles on crime scenes are rarely recognizable and complete, making it difficult to compare with other models of shoes and previous crimes.

investigators could soon help of software developed by computer scientists from the High school of Lucerne and Forensity SA Root (LU).

A prototype has already been created in collaboration with the University of Basel: it allows searching and automatic comparison of images for footprints visible soles. In Lucerne, this prototype has been refined to also analyze incomplete traces.

A reference database containing several thousand types of shoes is being developed with the help of wholesalers market

(ats / 2/17/2016 8:35 p.m.).

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