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Measuring Behavior in Forensic Research and Prevention of Crime

WORKSHOP

Date: Thursday, August 26
Time: 10:00-13:00
Location: Lorentz-Zeeman
Chair: Hans Arnold (The Netherlands Forensic Institute)

Measurement of human behavior has a number of applications in the prevention of crime and in the investigation of a crime scene. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss and to get more insight in the possibilities to combine methods and technologies for measuring behavior in forensic research in crime scene investigation and new security concepts to
predict and to prevent crimes. In this workshop, four applications are presented that are based on the use of different methods and techniques. These applications could benefit from each other by a mixed use of the methods and techniques presented. This question will be discussed with the
audience.

Program

10.00 Chair: Hans Arnold (The Netherlands Forensic Institute)
Introduction and structure of the workshop.
10.10

Andro Vos/ Jurrien Bijhold (The Netherlands Forensic Institute)
CSI the Hague
One of the goals of the CSI The Hague innovation project is to realize a facility in which a crime scene researcher can be observed in both a reconstructed crime scene and in a virtual copy of it (serious gaming). For the Netherlands Forensic Institute it is very important to carry out this exercise in cooperation with experts, institutes and companies with appropriate specialized expertise. Measurements of behavior can help to improve feedback to trainee investigators and to study effects of particular circumstances on the behavior of the investigators.
10.40 Coffee break
11.10 Arend van der Stadt (Eagle Vision, The Netherlands)
People tracking with a network of stereo cameras.
Eagle Vision is a company that has developed a system based on a network of stereo cameras for registration of people’s movements over time. Noldus is a company that has developed a system for describing movements based on video recordings. A proposal for combining these systems in the context of a CSI experiment is presented and discussed.
11.40 Ron Knaap (Trigion, The Netherlands)
MultiPaV-BeWare: “To predict the science of the past”
BeWare is an innovation project which will be able to analyse and combine data from alarm panels and systems, fence detectors, security cameras, public sources and police files. Software will unravel patterns and signals anomalies, for instance by making comparisons with historical data. Any anomaly will immediately trigger a warning. It is a dynamic concept that constantly adapts to changes in the environment and takes into account the reactions of security and emergency personnel. The application of this technology in training crime scene investigators is discussed.
12.10 Maaike Lousberg (TNO Defense & Security, The Netherlands)
Smart interpretation: New methods for observing anomalous behavior Preventing violent or terrorist acts begins with detecting anomalous behavior in groups of people. TNO has studied and mapped out behavior of this kind. TNO also analyses camera images and radar data and uses pattern recognition to detect any anomalous behavior that they contain.
12.40 Final discussion
13.00 End of Session

 

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