Criminal and Victim Identification based on Skin Patterns - ADAMS WAI-KIN KONG

With recent advances in Internet and multimedia technology, the involvement of digital images in crimes has been increasing significantly. In cases of child sexual abuse, child pornography, masked gunmen, riots and terror attacks, evidence for identifying criminals or victims is often in the form of digital images. Identifying individuals from this digital evidence can be very challenging because the criminals are usually careful to hide or cover their faces. In this talk, the speaker will discuss algorithms for matching skin patterns for criminal identification