Forensic Footwear: A Retrospective of the Development of the MANTIS Shoe Scanning System

Type: Conference Proceeding, Publication Research Area(s): Footwear, Implementation and Practice

Published: 2024 | By: Richard Stone

There currently are no shoe-scanning devices developed in the United States that can operate in a real-world, variable-weather environment in …

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A Quantitative Approach for Forensic Footwear Quality Assessment using Machine and Deep Learning

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Footwear, Forensic Statistics

Published: 2025 | By: Bismita Choudhury

Forensic footwear impressions play a crucial role in criminal investigations, assisting in possible suspect identification. The quality of an impression …

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Enhancing forensic shoeprint analysis: Application of the Shoe-MS algorithm to challenging evidence

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Footwear, Forensic Statistics

Published: 2025 | By: Moonsoo Jang

Quantitative assessment of pattern evidence is a challenging task, particularly in the context of forensic investigations where the accurate identification …

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Computational Shoeprint Analysis for Forensic Science

Type: Dissertation Research Area(s): Footwear

Published: 2024 | By: Samia Shafique

Shoeprints are a common type of evidence found at crime scenes and are regularly used in forensic investigations. However, their …

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Challenges in Modeling, Interpreting, and Drawing Conclusions from Images as Forensic Evidence

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Footwear, Forensic Statistics, Handwriting, Latent Print

Published: 2024 | By: Karen Kafadar

When a crime is committed, law enforcement directs crime scene experts to obtain evidence that may be pertinent to identifying …

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Aligning Shoeprint Images that have nonlinear distortion effects

Type: Poster Research Area(s): Footwear, Forensic Statistics

Published: 2024 | By: Gautham Venkatasubramanian

Shoeprints are aligned before assessing similarity, and automatic alignment algorithms can handle differences in translation, rotation [1], and scale. But …

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ShoeCase: A data set of mock crime scene footwear impressions

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Footwear

Published: 2023 | By: Abigail Tibben

This project’s main objective is to create an open-source database containing a sizeable number of high-quality images of shoe impressions. …

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A finely tuned deep transfer learning algorithm to compare outsole images

Type: Publication Research Area(s): Footwear

Published: 2023 | By: Moonsoo Jang

In forensic practice, evaluating shoeprint evidence is challenging because the differences between images of two different outsoles can be subtle. …

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