title: Content based information retrieval in forensic image databases.
abstract: This paper gives an overview of the various available image databases and ways of searching these databases on image contents. The developments in research groups of searching in image databases is evaluated and compared with the forensic databases that exist. Forensic image databases of fingerprints, faces, shoeprints, handwriting, cartridge cases, drugs tablets, and tool marks are described. The developments in these fields appear to be valuable for forensic databases, especially that of the framework in MPEG-7, where the searching in image databases is standardized. In the future, the combination of the databases (also DNA-databases) and possibilities to combine these can result in stronger forensic evidence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Evidence, Netherlands Forensic Institute, Rijswijk.
authors.forename: Zeno
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Geradts
authors.forename: Jurrien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bijhold
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000295:instrumentation; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D005389:Firearms; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual
chemical_list: D013287:Illicit Drugs