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An Image Processing Based Framework Using Crowdsourcing for a Successful Suspect Investigation

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The invasion of new technologies in people’s life has allowed a great interactive collaboration between citizens and law enforcement agencies. The appearance of crowdsourcing has become a new source of research and development especially in the suspect investigation domain that needs the combination of human intelligence and the technical tools to lead the investigation towards the greatest results. The objective of this paper is to exploit the pervasiveness of image processing techniques (face detection and recognition) to design a crowdsourcing framework that may be chiefly used by government authorities to identify a suspect. This framework is primarily based on the surveillance video analysis and the sketch generation tools supported by the intelligence of the crowd.

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El Alaoui El Abdallaoui, H., Ennaji, F.Z., El Fazziki, A. (2018). An Image Processing Based Framework Using Crowdsourcing for a Successful Suspect Investigation. In: Abraham, A., Haqiq, A., Muda, A., Gandhi, N. (eds) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2017). SoCPaR 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 737. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76357-6_7

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