Final announcement
To: Members and guests of the ENFSI Digital Imaging
Working Group
23 September, 2008
Dear colleagues,
It is great pleasure to invite you to the 8th meeting of the
European Network of Forensic Sciences (ENFSI) Expert Working Group for Digital
Imaging (ENFSIDIWG) on
October 7-10, 2008 in
This meeting is organized by the Gendarmerie Criminal
Department (JKDB), on behalf our Steering Commitee.
The full program will be a mixture of formal presentations,
discussions and workshops. The details of the program will depend on your
input! However, we propose to have a traditional program. The first day will be
focused on facial image comparison and identification problems. The second and
third day will be focused on casework and imaging technology (authentication,
integrity investigation, camera identification, image processing, file repair, etc).
The last day is focused on photogrammetry and
3d-modelling. Those of you, who are not interested in facial image comparison
issues, can come one day later. As an outcome of the evaluation of our
previous meetings in
Just tell us what you want and what you can do
for all of us!!
We will collect a fee at the beginning of the meeting to pay
for the cost of the organization (meeting room, coffee breaks, meals, etc.).
The fee will be 220 Euro.
The meeting venue is in the Radisson SAS Hotel, (İstiklal Cad. No:20 Ulus ,
Transportation: Hotel is in
the city center and it takes approximately 30-35 minutes from airport. Taxi
cost is approximately 50-70 Euro (100 YTL). The other alternative is bus. Bus
cost is approximately 5-6 Euro (10 YTL). The name of the bus is HAVAŞ and
arrival point is Tandoğan which is 1-2 km far
away from the hotel. We recommend to take a taxi from Tandoğan.
Cost is approximately 3-4 Euro (6 YTL) from Tandoğan
to Hotel.
We are looking forward to meet you again.
Jurrien Bijhold Serkan Karagöz
Proposal for the program:
7 OCTOBER, casework and imaging technology
Chairs: steering committee
members of DIWG
Morning session (opening and introduction):
- 9.00 arrival at the meeting room
and registration
- 9.30 official
opening of the meeting
- Serkan Karagoz
: the Gendarmerie Criminal Department (JKDB)
- You will be interviewed about
your work and, if you wish, you can interview some of the other attendees.
Lunch (Radisson Sas Hotel)
Afternoon session (overview of all activities and quality assurance)
- Jurrien Bijhold and Serkan karagöz: explanation of the program and agenda
- Benedek Smid & János Osztertág: small presentation on Forensic Image
processing in
- Yalçin Atmaca and Hakan Ayyildiz; small presentation on work done by the Ankara Forensic Police Laboratory
- Razvan Rizea
: hands on exercise on image processing and a presentation on image
comparisons case studies
- Discussion of Quality Assurance Tomaz Prijanovic and Kestutis Grazelis
- Serkan Karagoz:
Presentation of Turkish efforts towards accreditation
- Bue Hjort: case presentation: how to judge the resemblance
of general appearance and the way of moving in video images
- Marcel Braun and Christoph Giger:
presentation on 3d-scan techniques
- Remaining time: open discussions
attendees discuss their casework, etc
Dinner
8 OCTOBER, facial image comparison and identification
issues,
Chair: Johanna Morley
Co chair: Damien Dessimoz
Morning session
- Presentation of results from NFI Proficiency Test
- Brief Presentation of the process for facial comparison
submissions to the Metropolitan Police
- Practical exercise looking at defining a standard of “quality”
of footage that is suitable for use in facial comparison
Lunch (Radisson Sas Hotel)
Afternoon session
- Presentation outlining three different methods used for facial
comparison methods
- Apply the different methods outlined in the presentation to
compare questioned and reference facial images.
A laptop with digital image editing software will be
necessary for this exercise.
You can download a free 30-day trial of PhotoShop software or freeware GIMP has much of the same
functionality.
People can work in small groups
for this exercise so it is not absolutely necessary that everyone bring their
laptop. Downloads
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
http://www.adobe.com/uk/downloads/
- Presentation of results of practical exercise and discussion
- Damien Dessimoz: presentation / discussion
- Christophe Lambert: Facial comparison software and its
validation
- Jurrien Bijhold:
presentation on the use of transparent sheets for video recording of
reference images
- Other presentations / Open Session – possible topics for
discussion
- Defining Use of 3D
- Evaluation/ scales of support
- Casework problems
- Suggestions for further collaborative work/ proficiency tests
etc.
Visit to JKDB
Official dinner and lots of talking (Castle Washington Restaurant)
9 OCTOBER Imaging Technology
Chairs: steering committee members of DIWG
Morning session:
Site seeing event (Anadolu Medeniyetler
Müzesi)
Lunch (Radisson Sas Hotel)
Afternoon session (imaging technology)
- Andrew Barnes and Jay Gatusso:
presentation of results from the HOSDB studies on Color Analysis,
and a presentation on the development of the Meerkat
CCTV viewer
- Rikkert Zoun : presentation on software for video file recovery (defraser)
- Rikkert Zoun: meta data analysis in case work
- Silke Terodde: hands on exercise image data reconstruction
and image enhancement, discussion on
- Peter Bergström and Tobias Höglund: presentation on camera identification
- Andrew Harris: presentation on: training of a pool of engineers for cctv retrieval, structure and equipment for major incidents. smart database (open data base for police/government in cctv/imaging), focus presentation tool (police developed tool for presentation of video and audio evidence at court)
- Petr Bendl: case examples: are the images manipulated or not?
- Yalçin Atmaca: Forensic Montage and editing examinations
- Others? : Case examples of Image authenication
and detection of manipulations
- Late afternoon session (3d modeling and photogrammetry)
- Dean Williams training on photogrammetry
- Gerda Edelman, presentation Photogrammetry
- Remaining time: open discussions
attendees discuss their casework, etc
Late Dinner (Radisson Sas Hotel)
10 OCTOBER, photogrammetry and
3d-modeling
Chairs: steering committee members of DIWG
Morning session (3d modeling and photogrammetry)
- Martin Wermuth; Presentation on: speed verification of a YouTube video and a presentation on: Crime scene photography and photosynth
- Gerda Edelman: use of Google sketch-up
- Jurrien Bijhold:
documentation and presentation techniques of crime scene investigations;
ongoing work on a European project proposal
- Yalçin Atmaca
and Jurrien Bijhold
optional demo/discussion/training session Maya/studio Max
- Remaining time: open discussions
attendees discuss their casework, etc
Lunch (Radisson Sas Hotel)
Afternoon session
- Official agenda for ENFSI
information
- EAFS 2009
- Evaluation and future of the
- Relation DIWG and Commercial Companies
- Relation DIWG and IAFSM
- Organization of meetings in the
future
- Other WG discussions
- Steering Committee meeting after
the business meeting for evaluation and further decisions to be made.
This program will be discussed at the beginning of every day and is
therefore subject to any change you want.