Shoeprints performs a vital role in forensic investigations. It has been an advanced research
issue in forensic science. The main purpose of shoeprint image retrieval is to acquire a …

High-resolution remote-sensing images are widely used for object detection but are affected
by various factors. During the detection process, the orientation sensitivity of the image …

As an advanced research topic in forensics science, automatic shoe-print identification has
been extensively studied in the last two decades, since shoe marks are the clues most …

Footwear impressions are one of the most frequently secured types of evidence at crime
scenes. For the investigation of crime series they are among the major investigative notes. In …

Successful classification of questioned footwear has tremendous evidentiary value; the
result can minimize the potential suspect pool and link a suspect to a victim, a crime scene …

Identifying shoe-print impressions in the scene of crime (SoC) from database images is a
challenging problem in forensic science due to the complicated impressing surface, the …

Footwear evidence has tremendous forensic value; it can focus a criminal investigation, link
suspects to scenes, help reconstruct a series of events, or otherwise provide information vital …

We construct a set of special complex-valued integral images and an algorithm that allows to
calculate Zernike moments fast, namely in constant time. The technique is suitable for dense …

Hierarchical compositional models (HCMs) have recently shown impressive generalisation
capabilities, especially with small amounts of training data. However, regarding occlusion …

Shoe tread impressions are one of the most common types of evidence left at crime scenes.
However, the utility of such evidence is limited by the lack of databases of footwear prints …