This webinar discusses how law enforcement agencies are using facial recognition and biometrics technology, specifically Animetrics' ForensicaGPS solution, to identify suspects and further investigations. ForensicaGPS allows investigators to take uncontrolled images like surveillance photos and transform them into 3D models to make the faces identifiable by facial recognition systems. It also provides visualization and comparison tools to manually analyze multiple facial images. The webinar demonstrates ForensicaGPS through case studies of police departments that have used it to identify suspects from surveillance footage and photos.

1. Webinar: How Law Enforcement is Closing
Cases with Face Biometric Technology

2. Introduction
Webinar:
How Law Enforcement is Closing Cases with Face
Biometric Technology
How Pennsylvania police are identifying suspects and furthering
investigations with facial recognition and ForensicaGPS, Animetrics’
new facial identity biometric solution
Hosts
• Paul Schuepp, Animetrics, President and CEO
• Sean Doucette, Animetrics, Systems Engineer

3. Animetrics Key Info
• Headquartered in Conway, NH
• Dr. Michael I. Miller – Chairman, Chief Scientist & Founder;
About Director Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins
• Paul Schuepp – CEO/President
Focus • Advanced facial recognition biometrics for military, DOD
intelligence, homeland security, law enforcement
• “Lights Out Face” – Facial identity management solutions
Solutions and 3D facial recognition applications
• “Investigative face” – Forensic facial biometric solutions
• Patented 2D to 3D face recognition
Technology • Facial identity management cloud solution - web (FR)
services architecture & cloud database

4. Investigative Face: Defined
• Facial Identification (FI) – The manual examination of the
differences and similarities between facial images to
determine if they represent different or same person
• Facial Recognition (FR) – The automated searching of a
facial image in a computer database, resulting in a group of
facial images ranked or scored by computer evaluated
similarity
• Image-based Recognition – The automated searching of
features (ears, hands, blemishes, and scars, marks and
tatoos, in a computer database.
- FBI

5. Investigative Face: Use Cases
• Identifying subjects, fugitives, missing persons and
person’s of interest by using FR systems
– Law enforcement (LE) and govt sources (DMV)
– Open sources
– Images in seized systems – video recorder or camera
(evidence)
• Tracking subjects to and from critical events
(Homeland security – 9/11 etc)
• Automatic surveillance at lookout locations
• Verifying mug shots against National Criminal
Information (NCIC) records
-FBI

6. Rapid Growth of Video & Photo
Face Biometric Evidence Available
Capturing face
biometric data is not
the problem – being
able to use it for fast
and accurate identity
resolution is!

7. Facial Imagery Objective:
Control the Uncontrolled
• For Visualization
• For Accuracy in
Computerized Face
Recognition Systems
(“Lights out”)
ISO/IEC 19794-5 
Standard Guidelines

8. Facial Imagery Objective:
Control the Uncontrolled
Over 45% of faces seen by witnesses and …”Lights Out” face reco solutions struggle
victims are NOT FRONTAL FACIAL VIEWS… to resolve identity of these images

9. For Frontal Controlled Facial Imagery
Facial Imagery Objective: Control the Uncontrolled
Face Recognition ID Rates have improved

10. Animetrics Perspective
FR System are Good and Getting Better But…
• Unable to consistently verify/match to courtroom standards
• Effective w/ “controlled facial imagery” but not w/ uncontrolled
• Law enforcement (LE) and Intelligence community (IC) rarely
deal with controlled data
There is a Need for New Investigative Face Biometric Tools
• Allows LE/IC to interpret uncontrolled facial images – off pose
or low resolution – consistently w/more precision
– Make uncontrolled data “ID ready” and admissible in FR systems
– Feature robust forensic analysis and visualization tools
– Provide manual and visual Face Identification (FI) - matching
and comparison

11. Investigative Face Biometrics
Application Requirements
Face Identification
Facial Forensic
Analysis
Face Recognition
Cloud Based Facial
Collection, Search &
Resolution

12. Animetrics’ Investigative Face
Solutions
ForensicaGPS
FaceR Identity Management, FIMS
&
FaceR MobileID

13. ForensicaGPS
• Investigative Face Biometric Solution for Law
Facts Enforcement, Homeland Security, Intelligence
Community
Partners • Enables identity resolution of facial images in video or
• BI2 Technologies (US Sheriffs) photo surveillance
– Translates low resolution or uncontrolled facial images
• Dataworks Plus (US Police & Prisons) from 2D to 3D renderings
• UMC Switzerland – Visualization and normalization tools make images “ID
• UNIDAS Germany Ready” for manual comparison or enrollment in FR
systems
– Comparative tools deliver detailed 2D and 3D facial
analysis enhancing the speed and accuracy of criminal
Deployments investigations
• Initial limited release of ForensicaGPS
in US, Europe and Middle East
• Zurich Forensic Police Department
(Switzerland) and police departments
in Saudi Arabia. Qatar and UAE
• Deployed by PA law enforcement as
part of state-wide web-based FR
system
ForensicaGPS 3D mesh
exposed showing accuracy in
facial geometry

14. Sean Doucette – ForensicaGPS
Live Demonstration

15. Case Study: Real Life Proof…
Pose Normalization Works!!
Before No Match Found
After Matches Found !!

16. Deployed Partners: ForensicaGPS

17. Case Study: PA JNET
PA Office of Attorney General
• AG sent image to JNET of individual sitting on bench
in urban area.
• With JNET FR, office was able to crop the photo
• Used ForensicaGPS 3D tools & pose correction
create a face forward pose and make “FR ID ready”
• Image was searched w/JNET FR system confirmed hit
was in the top five of one of the result scans

18. Case Study: PA JNET
US Postal Agents
• The US Postal Inspectors suspected individuals of sending and
receiving drugs in mail.
• undercover agent took picture of individual suspected of receiving
drugs.
• Agent used JNET system w/ ForensicaGPS & its 3D analysis ,
nomralization to:”make ID ready”
• Image successfullly enrolled and searched in JNET FR system
• Agent able to identify the suspect from results

19. Deployed Partners
- ForensicaGPS

20. Summary: ForensicaGPS
Breakthrough 2D to-3D facial Face Visualization& Normalization
forensic analysis tool enabling • Edit, enhance the photograph or video frame of
a difficult facial image for further analysis and
identity resolution of processing
photographic evidence from • Transforms 2D facial image and creates a full
face-video surveillance footage 3D model for normalization and visualization
w/pose correction
• Takes images, improves resolution and
• Features embedded GPS – a built in global
creates full 3D facial models for positioning system of the face – correlating all
complete visualization of the subject’s 2D (x,y) positions to their corresponding 3D
facial structure, geometry and texture (x,y,z) positions
• Provides controls that allow metric • A pre-process to doing facial search w/FaceR
analysis with face similarity scoring Identity Management or criminal database
search to achieve results
• Up to five images of each subject can be
• Faces out of pose range on most 2D FR
compared to the other subject facial
systems can now be identified with the use of
images ForensicaGPS
• Helps investigator make uncontrolled
images ID ready
Comparative & Matching
• Comparative tools enable analysis and
comparison of multiple images.
• Comparative tools deliver detailed 2D and 3D
facial analysis

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