Dr. Ranjeet Singh, CEO, SIFS INDIA explained about Image Forensics by focussing on various domains of image Forensics, such as analysis of evidences, Finger Print Analysis, Handwriting recognition. Dr. Singh described about various technical challenges for automatic indexing and retrieval of scanned documents. He also discussed about Cursive Recognition Approaches such as Document Pre-processing, which consists of noise removal, word box extraction, size normalization, Holistic matching, Featured Extraction and thinning. Dr. Singh showed the ways of obtaining fingerprints, by taking the fingerprints of one of the students. Using those fingerprints, he explained about various levels of finger prints. Level 2 studies of fingerprints included line unit, line fragment, ending, bifurcation, eye, hook and Level 3 are Pores, line shape, incipient ridges, creases, warts and scars. Further explain about Finger Print Databank, Plain Arche and Tented Arche, Radial Loop and Ulnar Loop, Plain Whorl and Composite Whorl. The Composite whorl was again divided into Central Packet Loop, Double Whorl Loop and Accidental Whorl Loop. Dr. Singh focussed on Exemplar Fingerprint, which is known to have originated from as specific source camera and Latent Fingerprint, which is lifted from an evidential Image. He also talked about Cyber forensics, cybercrimes, and various preventive measures for it. |
