We investigate the problem of automatically determining what type of shoe left an impression found at a crime scene. This recognition problem is made difficult by the variability in types of crime scene evidence (ranging from traces of dust or oil on hard surfaces to impressions made in soil) and the lack of comprehensive databases of shoe outsole tread patterns. We find that mid-level features...

Digital forensic is part of forensic science that unconditionally covers cyber crimes. In a cyber crime digital forensic evidence examination requires a special process and techniques in examination of cyber crime in crime scene and examination of evidence are accepted in law enforcement. Cyber crime involves log data, transactional data is occurs which tends to plenty of data for storage and a...

In this paper we argue that crime drama exemplified in television programs such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an ideal testbed for approximating real-world natural language understanding and the complex inferences associated with it. We propose to treat crime drama as a new inference task, capitalizing on the fact that each episode poses the same basic question (i.e., who committed the c...