VISIT TO SIFS INDIA

Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon organized an Industrial Visit to SIFS INDIA, New Delhi on 9th March 2016. Twenty two students from Computer Science & Engineering and Information Technology Department accompanied by faculty member Mr. Amar Saraswat, went for the visit SIFS INDIA is a leading independent private forensic science lab, registered with Government of India (MCA, Govt. of India) and provides various types of forensic services. The aim of this industrial visit was to enable students to learn about image processing techniques, and Cyber Forensics.

Mr. Karamveer Singh, Cyber Crime Expert explained the students about various types of hacking such as White Hat and Black Hat, different software related to investigation which come under the field of hacking. He also discussed the importance of Image Processing, Forensic Science, Protection of Crime Scene, Securing and Isolating the crime scenes, different types of evidence found on a crime scene.

Ms. Sikshita, Cyber Crime Expert gave a demo how the data item can be recovered and tools required for it. She described the importance of image processing in the field of forensic sciences and explained how we can notice the difference between the actual image and morphed image by viewing the changed resolution of full or part of the Image. With the help of various examples, he demonstrated the students that how we can judge that whether the image is morphed, which is obtained from the crime scene or it is real, by implementing various algorithms, which comes under image processing.

Dr. Ranjeet Singh, CEO, SIFS INDIA explained students about Cursive Recognition Approaches such as Document Pre - processing, which consist of noise removal, word box extraction, size normalization, Holistic matching, Featured Extraction and thinning. Dr. Singh also focussed on various domains of image Forensics, such as analysis of evidences, Finger Print Analysis, Handwriting recognition.

Further, Dr. Singh, explained the students 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 also focussed on Exemplar Fingerprint, which is known to have originated from a specific source camera and Latent Fingerprint, which is lifted from an evidential Image. He also talked about Cyber forensics, cybercrimes, and various preventive measures. Then, Dr. Singh practically explained ways of obtaining fingerprints, by taking the fingerprints of one of the student. 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.

Mr. Singh finally discussed the various career options related to image processing and cyber forensics. He motivated the students to start their research work in the field of image processing and major application areas related to it.

The visit proved to be very fruitful as the students learned a lot about tools used in mobile forensic investigation, image processing, and voice identification. During the practical sessions, the students enthusiastically interacted with the demonstrator and clarified their doubts.