Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
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Smytec Ltd has created a ground-breaking Forensic Imaging technology, removing the need for old fashioned fingerprint retrieval methods and replacing these with a high-tech solution. Smytec aims to bring fingerprint evid...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: SMYTEC
The project FINDER aims to bring fingerprint evidence retrieval into the 21st Century with its technology, which includes automatically processing fingerprints and getting additional information from fingerprints.
"This proposal is concerned with the development of an algorithm that makes Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems faster and more accurate. These systems are used to match full or partial finger and palm prin...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: ALGORID LTD
The project is concerned with the development of an algorithm that makes Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems faster and more accurate, which partially addresses the question of automatically processing fingerprints.
To develop design procedures, a design tool and prototype of an innovative fingerprint recovery system to prevent cross contamination of DNA at crime scenes for use in forensic investigation....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
The project is focused on developing a fingerprint recovery system to prevent cross contamination of DNA at crime scenes, which is not directly related to the question of automatically processing fingerprints and getting additional information from fingerprints.