NPRF — Our view to novel forensic multimedia data analysis

The increasing use of digital media in daily life has resulted in a need for novel multimedia data analysis for forensic purposes. Processing multimedia documents for police investigations or as pieces of evidence in courts of law entails that their interpretation must be reliable, trustworthy, and efficient in terms of human time and other required resources. Accomplishing this task will help greatly to speed up investigations and judicial processes, making them more effective. In this paper, we present our views on processing techniques for varied multimedia sources. In particular, we focus on speech, video and images, handwriting, and text documents. The new techniques we propose will form a toolkit to be used in law force investigation or in a court of law, to extract information and evidence from different multimedia sources. This toolkit will support the user in a way that will lead to standardisation and (semi-) automation in the analysis of forensic data.