EXTRACTION OF BLOOD DROPLET FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES FROM VIDEOS FOR FORENSIC ANALYSIS

L. A. Zarrabeitia, D. A. Aruliah, F. Z. Qureshi

2012

Abstract

We present a method for extracting three-dimensional flight trajectories of liquid droplets from video data. A high-speed stereo camera pair records videos of experimental reconstructions of projectile impacts and ensuing droplet scattering. After background removal and segmentation of individual droplets in each video frame, we introduce a model-based matching technique to accumulate image paths for individual droplets. Our motion detection algorithm is designed to deal gracefully with the lack of feature points, with the similarity of droplets in shape, size, and color, and with incomplete droplet paths due to noise, occlusions, etc. The final reconstruction algorithm pairs two-dimensional paths accumulated from each of the two cameras’ videos to reconstruct trajectories in three dimensions. The reconstructed droplet trajectories constitute a starting point for a physically accurate model of blood droplet flight for forensic bloodstain pattern analysis.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

A. Zarrabeitia L., A. Aruliah D. and Z. Qureshi F. (2012). EXTRACTION OF BLOOD DROPLET FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES FROM VIDEOS FOR FORENSIC ANALYSIS . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8425-99-7, pages 142-153. DOI: 10.5220/0003770201420153

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram12,
author={L. A. Zarrabeitia and D. A. Aruliah and F. Z. Qureshi},
title={EXTRACTION OF BLOOD DROPLET FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES FROM VIDEOS FOR FORENSIC ANALYSIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2012},
pages={142-153},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003770201420153},
isbn={978-989-8425-99-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - EXTRACTION OF BLOOD DROPLET FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES FROM VIDEOS FOR FORENSIC ANALYSIS
SN - 978-989-8425-99-7
AU - A. Zarrabeitia L.
AU - A. Aruliah D.
AU - Z. Qureshi F.
PY - 2012
SP - 142
EP - 153
DO - 10.5220/0003770201420153