Scars, marks and tattoos (SMT): Soft biometric for suspect and victim identification
- 1 September 2008
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
Scars, marks and tattoos (SMT) are being increasingly used for suspect and victim identification in forensics and law enforcement agencies. Tattoos, in particular, are getting serious attention because of their visual and demographic characteristics as well as their increasing prevalence. However, current tattoo matching procedure requires human-assigned class labels in the ANSI/NIST ITL 1-2000 standard which makes it time consuming and subjective with limited retrieval performance. Further, tattoo images are complex and often contain multiple objects with large intra-class variability, making it very difficult to assign a single category in the ANSI/NIST standard. We describe a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system for matching and retrieving tattoo images. Based on scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) features extracted from tattoo images and optional accompanying demographical information, our system computes feature-based similarity between the query tattoo image and tattoos in the criminal database. Experimental results on two different tattoo databases show encouraging results.Keywords
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