Scientific Working Groups, Knowledge Bases, Forums, Blogs & Websites
From ENFSI Monopoly Programme 2011: Project S-FIVE
Scientific Working Groups
- ENFSI DIWG European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) Digital Imaging Working Group
- ENFSI FITWG ENFSI Forensic Information Technology Working Group
- FISWG Facial Identification Scientific Working Group
- SWGIT Scientific Working Group on Imaging Technology
- NIST OSAC Forensic Organization of Scientific Area Committees (NIST, USA)
- AAFS American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Knowledge Bases
Password protected data bases:
Access to these data bases is generally restricted to Law Enforecement Agencies and ENFSI members only.
Instructions on how to apply for access are currently being requested from the responsible organizations.
- Met Police SMART UK Metropolitan Police SMART Knowledge Base (link updated 2016-08-01)
- NFI openforensic.net
- FBI VIPR database
- CCTVcodec.com
- Vid-Id.com Kinesence Vid-ID Tool
- DME Resources The DME Resources Professional Community is a service provided by Larry A. Compton
- fourcc.org knowledge base of FourCCs (Four Character Codes) for video files
Useful Blogs
- Amped Blog
- Forensic Focus
- ForensicPhotoshop Forensic Video and Image Analysis Blog
- Fourandsix.com Image Authentication and Forensics, Fourandsix Technologies
- mrutyunjayahiremath.blogspot.co.uk Image Processing
- DME Resources The DME Resources Professional Community is a service provided by Larry A. Compton
Projects
- REWIND Project http://sites.google.com/site/rewindpolimi/ (formerly http://www.rewindproject.eu/ project site has disappeared)
- PIZZARO project
- Explained Visually: a Setosa project
Misc Websites
- "FBI: Caught on Camera ": tutorial video about CCTV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Oj2FDwLXs
- DME Forensics
- DPanswers.com Examples of Image Defects
- Explained Visually: a Setosa project Image Kernels Demo
- Image Processing On Line Index of Articles
- Image Processing On Line Non-Local Means Denoising: Online Demo
- mrutyunjayahiremath.blogspot.co.uk H264 Deblocking Filter
- Olympus Microscopy Resource Centre Optical Abberation
- Resolution Video
- x264dev.multimedia.cx H.264 Deblocking link no longer valid
- Wikipedia.org Hough Transforms for Feature Detection
- trac.ffmpeg.org Debugging Macroblocks and Motion Vectors
- http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-quantization.html Jpeg quantisation matrices
- http://www.robertstocker.co.uk/jpeg/jpeg_new_10.htm Jpeg compression
- paulbourke.net Image Dimensions in Common Usage
- GSpot codec information appliance
- Kinesense PlayerManager
- SmartDeblur Restoration Theory
- SmartDeblur Restoration Practice
- High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs: http://www.debevec.org/Research/HDR/
- Digital Photography Review: "Where you'll find all the latest in digital photography and imaging news,..." http://www.dpreview.com/
- short comparison between CCD and CMOS cameras: http://www.dalsa.com/markets/ccd_vs_cmos.asp
- detailed discussion about CCD and CMOS cameras: http://www.dalsa.com/shared/content/Photonics_Spectra_CCDvsCMOS_Litwiller.pdf
- website with collection of questions/discussions about "gamma": http://www.poynton.com/notes/colour_and_gamma/GammaFAQ.html
- website with collection of questions/discussions about color theory: http://www.poynton.com/notes/colour_and_gamma/ColorFAQ.html
- Chroma subsampling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling
- Chroma subsampling: http://www.videomaker.com/article/15788-the-anatomy-of-chroma-subsampling
- Chroma subsampling: http://dougkerr.net/Pumpkin/articles/Subsampling.pdf
- Limiting of YUV Digital Video Signals: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/reports/1987-22.pdf
- Interlaced video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video
- Stabilize Images with Hugin Novel technique for stablizing and presenting stablized images.
- Presentation of Stabilized footage: Frame Layering/Persistent Background Tutorial Novel technique for presenting stablized images.
- Example of Presenting Stabilized Footage
- A Computational Approach For Obstruction-Free Photography
- (Interactive) JPEG tutorial: https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg/ (Update May 2019; Chrome browser may be advisable).
- Jpeg Huffman Coding tutorial http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-huffman-coding.html
Image Processing Courses/Source code collections
- http://www.tnw.tudelft.nl/fileadmin/Faculteit/TNW/Over_de_faculteit/Afdelingen/Imaging_Science_and_Technology/Research/Research_Groups/Quantitative_Imaging/Education/doc/FIP2_3.pdf
- Computer Vision Compendium http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/
- Computer Vision Library http://www.opencv.org/
- Coursera: Fundamentals of Digital Image and Video Processing https://www.coursera.org/course/digital
- Coursera: Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital https://www.coursera.org/course/images
- Coursera: Digital Signal Processing https://www.coursera.org/course/dsp