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Information retrieval in an integrated system for police

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The result is a toolset to classify face photographs and to access different databases in a seamless way. This toolset has been demonstrated by building two different applications, one for the Swedish police force and a different one for the Basque police force. The main target market for this toolset is the police forces. As a Trial Application, this project has been focused into integrating technologies from different sources into a single application, without further development activities. In this case, the integration came from two former ESPRIT projects: INTUITIVE and VIDIMUS. The technologies to be integrated were related to access to different data sources (INTUITIVE) and facial recognition libraries (VIDIMUS). We had requirements from two Police forces (Swedish and Basque) in order to provide them seamless access to several legacy databases, and, in the other hand, face recognition and classification abilities in order to find a set of photographs starting from a photofit picture or a still image. Thus the result has been a toolset to classify face photographs and to access different databases in a seamless way. This toolset has been demonstrated by building two different applications, one for the Swedish police force and a different one for the Basque police force. Moreover we have provided mobile access to the remote data, by a GSM connection from a portable PC, adding compression algorithms to allow about 9.600 bps of speed rate data transmission. The main target market for this toolset is the police forces interested in providing to the patrol cars with mobile access to data stored in a central headquarter as well as to a means to identify a suspect just taking a digital photograph, sending it to the headquarters and receiving a set of identifications according to the classification of the photograph.

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