Integrated software solution for the 3-dimensional capture and analysis of footwear evidence

用于鞋类证据的 3 维捕获和分析的集成软件解决方案

• 批准号: NE/M021459/1
• 负责人: Matthew Bennett
• 金额: $ 12.42万
• 依托单位: Bournemouth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FM021459%2F1
• 关键词: Integrated; software; solution; dimensional; capture

Footwear impressions provide a source of evidence within a range of criminal investigations including gathering of criminal intelligence. A potential suspect will leave foot or footwear impressions en route to, at and while exiting, a crime scene. This not only allows a sequence of events to be determined but may also link a suspect to a scene if their footwear is distinctive, for example as a consequence of damage or wear. Indoors crime scene officers deal mainly with two-dimensional traces; impressions left by a foot tracking mud, blood or other bodily fluids. Three-dimensional tracks, the proverbial footprint in the flower bed, are common at outdoor scenes. Traditional methods for the collection of three-dimensional traces consist of photography and casting, supported by two-dimensional pattern recognition that can type a footwear sole to a particular make or model of shoe. Three-dimensional imaging is now available as an alternative or complementary option, particularly as algorithms for digital photogrammetry have improved dramatically in recent years allowing easy operational deployment. No expensive three-dimensional scanners are required, only that a crime scene photographer take a few moments to collect additional oblique photographs of footwear impression. Consequently, three-dimensional analyses of footwear impressions are now already possible at a routine operational level, but remain the exception rather than the norm.As part of previous NERC grant NE/H004246/1 into ancient footprints we developed a range of methods and freeware to facilitate the three-dimensional capture and analysis of footprints. Engaging with police as part of the Impact Plan demonstrated the interest and potential of such methods to enhance the analysis of three-dimensional trace evidence especially by allowing statistical analysis of differences between tracks and/or footwear. Currently comparison is done primarily via visual inspection rather than by quantitative and statistical comparison. Working with our Project Partners we propose to employ a software engineer to draw on this research, practice and existing code to create a single integrated software application for the capture, analysis and presentation of three-dimensional footwear evidence which will allow routine operational deployment by police and forensic agencies both in the UK and overseas. This will change the fundamental cost-benefit ratio associated with the collection of this type of evidence, such that three-dimensional imaging can become the norm rather than the exception. Software of this sort needs to be available to all parties involved in forensic jurisprudence - the defence as well as the prosecution - without handicap of cost. As such our proposed software will be made available as freeware rather than commercialised, which will also assist with user adoption. This knowledge translation has the potential to contribute to criminal investigations and in the safeguarding of society.

鞋印在一系列刑事调查中提供了证据来源，包括收集刑事情报。一个潜在的嫌疑犯会在前往犯罪现场的途中、在离开犯罪现场的时候留下脚或鞋印。这不仅可以确定一系列事件，而且如果嫌疑人的鞋子与众不同，例如由于损坏或磨损，也可以将嫌疑人与现场联系起来。在室内，犯罪现场官员主要处理二维痕迹，即脚留下的泥、血或其他体液痕迹。三维轨道，谚语中的足迹在花坛，是常见的户外场景。收集三维痕迹的传统方法包括摄影和铸造，并得到二维模式识别的支持，该识别可以将鞋底输入特定品牌或型号的鞋子。三维成像现在可作为一种替代或补充选择，特别是近年来数字摄影测量的算法有了显著改进，便于操作部署。不需要昂贵的三维扫描仪，只需要犯罪现场摄影师花几分钟收集额外的鞋印倾斜照片。因此，鞋类压痕的三维分析现在已经可以在常规操作层面上进行，但仍然是例外而不是规范。作为先前NERC授予NE/H 004246/1的古代足迹的一部分，我们开发了一系列方法和免费软件，以促进足迹的三维捕获和分析。作为影响计划的一部分，与警方接触表明，这种方法对加强三维痕迹证据分析的兴趣和潜力，特别是通过对足迹和/或鞋类之间的差异进行统计分析。目前的比较主要是通过目视检查，而不是通过定量和统计比较。与我们的项目合作伙伴合作，我们建议聘请一名软件工程师利用这项研究，实践和现有代码来创建一个单一的集成软件应用程序，用于捕获，分析和呈现三维鞋类证据，这将允许英国和海外的警察和法医机构进行常规操作部署。这将改变与收集此类证据相关的基本成本效益比，使三维成像成为常态而不是例外。此类软件需要提供给参与法医学的所有各方--辩方和检方--而不受成本限制。因此，我们提出的软件将作为免费软件提供，而不是商业化，这也将有助于用户采用。这种知识转化有可能有助于刑事调查和社会保障。

项目成果

Laetoli's lost tracks: 3D generated mean shape and missing footprints.

• DOI: 10.1038/srep21916
• 发表时间: 2016-02-23
• 期刊: Scientific reports
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Bennett MR;Reynolds SC;Morse SA;Budka M
• 通讯作者: Budka M

Footprints and human evolution: Homeostasis in foot function?

• DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.026
• 发表时间: 2016-11-01
• 期刊: PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Bennett, Matthew R.;Reynolds, Sally C.;Budka, Marcin
• 通讯作者: Budka, Marcin

Digital Technology for Forensic Footwear Analysis and Vertebrate Ichnology

法医鞋类分析和脊椎动物技术的数字技术

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93689-5
• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Bennett M

Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

• DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7586
• 发表时间: 2021-09-24
• 期刊: SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 56.9
• 作者: Bennett, Matthew R.;Bustos, David;Odess, Daniel
• 通讯作者: Odess, Daniel

Possible hominin footprints from the late Miocene (c. 5.7 Ma) of Crete?

• DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2017.07.006
• 发表时间: 2017-10-01
• 期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: Gierlinski, Gerard D.;Niedzwiedzki, Grzegorz;Ahlberg, Per Erik
• 通讯作者: Ahlberg, Per Erik