MM4CSF 2015 - Workshop on Multimedia Crime Scene Forensics for Fingerprint Acquisition and Processing (MM4CSF)

The application of multimedia acquisition and digital processing methods to the field of fingerprint crime scene forensics is an emerging topic. At present date, daily forensic work on fingerprint processing (dactyloscopy) is subject to numerous challenges, which have not been adequately addressed. By utilizing multimedia capturing devices from various domains (2D/3D, intensity, topography, color, luminescence, multidimensional chemical spectra) in combination with a digital, multimedia processing chain, these issues might be addressed. However, high-resolution print information of different capturing domains (intensity, topography, chemical information) requires adequate methods for enhancement, noise reduction, segmentation, feature extraction, classification and information fusion. Furthermore, the new approaches seem to allow for addressing so far unresolved challenges in the field, such as automated coarse scans (low resolution fast scans of large crime scene areas for print detection), print lifting and segmentation on challenging substrates, separation of overlapped prints as well as print age estimation and sequencing
The aim of this workshop is to increase the so far very limited knowledge in the area of multimedia crime scene forensics and to address these challenges with an increased accuracy, automation and performance, including objective quality metrics and error measures. The goal of the workshop is furthermore to explore current and emerging work on these topics, and to provide a forum for authors to present early, yet promising results on these issues. The workshop is focused on allowing researchers to compare and discuss approaches, methods, and new concepts of this topic as well as to bridge this field to the multimedia community. Accepted papers will be published in the 'Proceedings of ICME workshops' as well as online in the IEEEexplore library.
Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
Contactless multimedia capturing devices and -procedures for non-invasive print acquisition
Time efficient latent print detection on large surfaces in limited lateral resolution (coarse scan)
Fingerprint detection, lifting and processing from electronic payment devices (e.g. POS terminals, ATMs, mobile phones) for tamper detection
Latent traces in financial crime scenarios
Segmentation of prints from challenging substrates
Print enhancement and noise reduction
Fingerprint features for information extraction
Separation and sequencing of overlapped prints
Age and sequence estimation of prints
Matching/identification of latent crime scene prints with biometric (live) samples
Fusion of different fingerprint representations (e.g. intensity vs. topography images, laser microscopy vs. cameras, spectral planes, etc.)