Barefoot Morphology: A Person Unique Feature for Forensic Identification
Authors:
AYANKOYA Folasade
Publication Type: Journal article
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Abstract
Divers features of human body are being explored on
daily basis for person identification based on their uniqueness to
individuals. The use of fingerprint in crime investigation has come to
stay, but criminals are getting smarter by protecting their fingerprints
from being evidence at a crime scene. Concealing of footprint or shoe
print is yet to become popular, some criminals still go bare footed to
crime scene. Footprint can be secured and analysed using image
processing techniques such as de-noising, image partitioning, pattern
matching This research looks at the uniqueness of barefoot
morphology, should in any circumstance barefoot prints are found at
a scene and are required to suggest a suspect or criminal. Image
processing algorithms are employed to analyse barefoot prints in
other to establish the unique features on the prints.