Algorithmic Image Matching (AIM): Project Analysis for Santa Ana Police Department

摘要

Many organizations throughout the United States have adopted an electronic mug imaging system. These systems have proved to be a reliable source for storing and retrieving biographical and image information. Most have restrictions on the physical descriptions and types of searches available. Pacer Infotec Inc. partnered with the Santa Ana Police Department to develop, integrate, implement, test, and evaluate a mug identification imaging system that exceeds the current generation of mug imaging systems. During this partnership, Pacer Infotec Inc. seamlessly integrated an algorithmic face-recognition engine into its existing MugMatch identification-imaging product. In addition to searching for suspects based on physical characteristics, Santa Ana Police Department can use photographs, composite drawings, and video surveillance clips as the template image and sort the resulting images into similar and dissimilar images. This technology assists investigators in identifying suspects by focusing on the most probable set of images.