Document Type
Book Chapter
Publisher
InTech
Editor(s)
Croatia
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Security Science
Abstract
Firearm identification is an intensive and time-consuming process that requires physical interpretation of forensic ballistics evidence. Especially as the level of violent crime involving firearms escalates, the number of firearms to be identified accumulates dramatically. The demand for an automatic firearm identification system arises. This chapter proposes a new, analytic system for automatic firearm identification based on the cartridge and projectile specimens. Not only do we present an approach for capturing and storing the surface image of the spent projectiles at high resolution using line-scan imaging technique for the projectiles database, but we also present a novel and effective FFT-based analysis technique for analyzing and identifying the projectiles.
DOI
10.5772/7050
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Comments
Li, D. (2009). Ballistics image processing and analysis for firearm identification. In Yung-Sheng Chen (Ed.). Image processing. IntechOpen. DOI: 10.5772/7050. Chapter 9.