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Introduction
Throughout the last decade, the digital video and surveillance industry has developed and expanded at an ever increasing pace. Unfortunately, the images and video recordings that are most often provided to forensic investigators are composed of rather low quality image data. Analysing such data requires considerable knowledge and tuning of different parameters in various software tools. As a consequence, forensic laboratories are most often overloaded with image and video analysis casework, and have experienced considerable difficulty in keeping up with recent developments both in terms of (academic and commercial) R&D and available software tools. Additionally, from an organizational point of view, an overview of the methods and procedures that are currently being used across the ENFSI member institutes is lacking. This hinders a unified methodology of dealing with this type of evidence and the development of standardization and quality assurance issues in general. Finally, there exists an urgent need for reference input material that can be used for evaluation and training of (new) investigators, for testing and validation of existing and new software tools, etc.
S-FIVE
The S-FIVE project studied various issues related to the Standardisation of Forensic Image and Video Enhancement. The main focus of the project was oriented towards techniques that are used for improving the quality of surveillance video data and other types of images that portray persons and objects at the macroscopic level.
The Project Results page contains the currently available results:
- The "solution"/explanation about the Bonus CE has been made available on the Bonus Collaborative Exercise page
- The Central Repository (CR) contains an overview of existing:
- Scientific literature,
- Software and tools (updated May 2019),
- Related software and tools (not strictly enhancement related) (updated Feb. 2019)
- Test data sets
- Scientific Working Groups, Knowledge Bases, Forums, Blogs & Websites (updated May 2019)
- S-FIVE and ENFSI Best Practice Manual (BPM) (updated Aug. 2018) and
- draft Best Practice Manual Supplement (BPM-S) (updated Aug. 2018)
Funding
The S-FIVE project was a project funded by the European Commission through the
European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI)
Monopoly 2011 programme "Improving Forensic Methodologies across Europe"(IFMAE).
The project ended on 31 Dec. 2015.
Members
The core S-FIVE project team was formed by researchers and investigators from BKA (Germany), CAST (UK), CSCP (Cyprus), MPS (UK), NFI (The Netherlands) and NICC-INCC (Belgium).
Last update: Feb. 5-7, 2019, sub-pages reviews and updates are ongoing