Uncovering vein patterns from color skin images for personal identification in forensic investigation

• Main Author: Tang, Chaoying
• Other Authors: Kong Wai-Kin Adams
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Pattern recognition
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/51059
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Recent technological advances have allowed for a proliferation of digital evidence images. Using these images as evidence in legal cases (e.g. child sexual abuse, child pornography and masked gunmen) can be very challenging, because the faces of criminals or victims are not visible. Although large s...