Webinar: How Law Enforcement is Closing

Cases with Face Biometric Technology

Introduction

Webinar:

How Law Enforcement is Closing Cases with Face Biometric Technology

How Pennsylvania police are identifying suspects and furthering

investigations with facial recognition and ForensicaGPS, Animetrics’

new facial identity biometric solution

Hosts

• Paul Schuepp, Animetrics, President and CEO

• Sean Doucette, Animetrics, Systems Engineer

Animetrics Key Info

• Headquartered in Conway, NH

• Dr. Michael I. Miller – Chairman, Chief Scientist & Founder; Director Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins

• Paul Schuepp – CEO/President

About

• Advanced facial recognition biometrics for military, DOD intelligence, homeland security, law enforcement

Focus

• “Lights Out Face” – Facial identity management solutions and 3D facial recognition applications

• “Investigative face” – Forensic facial biometric solutions Solutions

• Patented 2D to 3D face recognition

• Facial identity management cloud solution - web (FR) services architecture & cloud database

Technology

Investigative Face: Defined

• Facial Identification (FI) – The manual examination of the differences and similarities between facial images to determine if they represent different or same person

• Facial Recognition (FR) – The automated searching of a facial image in a computer database, resulting in a group of facial images ranked or scored by computer evaluated similarity

• Image-based Recognition – The automated searching of features (ears, hands, blemishes, and scars, marks and tatoos, in a computer database.

- FBI

Investigative Face: Use Cases

• Identifying subjects, fugitives, missing persons and person’s of interest by using FR systems – Law enforcement (LE) and govt sources (DMV)

– Open sources

– Images in seized systems – video recorder or camera (evidence)

• Tracking subjects to and from critical events (Homeland security – 9/11 etc)

• Automatic surveillance at lookout locations

• Verifying mug shots against National Criminal Information (NCIC) records

-FBI

Capturing face

biometric data is not

the problem – being

able to use it for fast

and accurate identity

resolution is!

Rapid Growth of Video & Photo Face Biometric Evidence Available

• For Visualization

• For Accuracy in

Computerized Face

Recognition Systems

(“Lights out”)

Facial Imagery Objective: Control the Uncontrolled

ISO/IEC 19794-5

Standard Guidelines

Facial Imagery Objective: Control the Uncontrolled

Over 45% of faces seen by witnesses and victims are NOT FRONTAL FACIAL VIEWS…

…”Lights Out” face reco solutions struggle to resolve identity of these images

For Frontal Controlled Facial Imagery Facial Imagery Objective: Control the Uncontrolled

Face Recognition ID Rates have improved

Animetrics Perspective

FR System are Good and Getting Better But…

• Unable to consistently verify/match to courtroom standards

• Effective w/ “controlled facial imagery” but not w/ uncontrolled

• Law enforcement (LE) and Intelligence community (IC) rarely deal with controlled data

There is a Need for New Investigative Face Biometric Tools

• Allows LE/IC to interpret uncontrolled facial images – off pose or low resolution – consistently w/more precision

– Make uncontrolled data “ID ready” and admissible in FR systems

– Feature robust forensic analysis and visualization tools

– Provide manual and visual Face Identification (FI) - matching and comparison

Face Recognition Cloud Based Facial

Collection, Search &

Resolution

Face Identification Facial Forensic

Analysis

Investigative Face Biometrics Application Requirements

FaceR Identity Management, FIMS

&

FaceR MobileID

ForensicaGPS

Animetrics’ Investigative Face Solutions

• Investigative Face Biometric Solution for Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, Intelligence Community

• Enables identity resolution of facial images in video or photo surveillance

– Translates low resolution or uncontrolled facial images from 2D to 3D renderings

– Visualization and normalization tools make images “ID Ready” for manual comparison or enrollment in FR systems

– Comparative tools deliver detailed 2D and 3D facial analysis enhancing the speed and accuracy of criminal investigations

Facts Partners • BI2 Technologies (US Sheriffs)

• Dataworks Plus (US Police & Prisons)

• UMC Switzerland

• UNIDAS Germany

Deployments • Initial limited release of ForensicaGPS

in US, Europe and Middle East

• Zurich Forensic Police Department (Switzerland) and police departments in Saudi Arabia. Qatar and UAE

• Deployed by PA law enforcement as part of state-wide web-based FR system

ForensicaGPS 3D mesh exposed showing accuracy in facial geometry

ForensicaGPS

Sean Doucette – ForensicaGPS

Live Demonstration

Case Study: Real Life Proof…

Pose Normalization Works!!

Before No Match Found

After Matches Found !!

Deployed Partners: ForensicaGPS

Case Study: PA JNET

PA Office of Attorney General • AG sent image to JNET of individual sitting on bench

in urban area.

• With JNET FR, office was able to crop the photo

• Used ForensicaGPS 3D tools & pose correction

create a face forward pose and make “FR ID ready”

• Image was searched w/JNET FR system confirmed hit

was in the top five of one of the result scans

Case Study: PA JNET

US Postal Agents • The US Postal Inspectors suspected individuals of sending and

receiving drugs in mail.

• undercover agent took picture of individual suspected of receiving

drugs.

• Agent used JNET system w/ ForensicaGPS & its 3D analysis ,

nomralization to:”make ID ready”

• Image successfullly enrolled and searched in JNET FR system

• Agent able to identify the suspect from results

Deployed Partners

- ForensicaGPS

Summary: ForensicaGPS

Breakthrough 2D to-3D facial

forensic analysis tool enabling

identity resolution of

photographic evidence from

face-video surveillance footage

• Takes images, improves resolution and

creates full 3D facial models for

complete visualization of the subject’s

facial structure, geometry and texture

• Provides controls that allow metric

analysis with face similarity scoring

• Up to five images of each subject can be

compared to the other subject facial

images

• Helps investigator make uncontrolled

images ID ready

Face Visualization& Normalization • Edit, enhance the photograph or video frame of

a difficult facial image for further analysis and

processing

• Transforms 2D facial image and creates a full

3D model for normalization and visualization

w/pose correction

• Features embedded GPS – a built in global

positioning system of the face – correlating all

2D (x,y) positions to their corresponding 3D

(x,y,z) positions

• A pre-process to doing facial search w/FaceR

Identity Management or criminal database

search to achieve results

• Faces out of pose range on most 2D FR

systems can now be identified with the use of

ForensicaGPS

Comparative & Matching • Comparative tools enable analysis and

comparison of multiple images.

• Comparative tools deliver detailed 2D and 3D

facial analysis

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