Development of a Dundee Ground Truth imaging protocol for recording indoor crime scenes to facilitate virtual reality reconstruction

TY - JOUR

T1 - Development of a Dundee Ground Truth imaging protocol for recording indoor crime scenes to facilitate virtual reality reconstruction

AU - Yu, Sang-hun

AU - Thomson, Grant

AU - Rinaldi, Vincenzo

AU - Rowland, Chris

AU - Nic Daeid, Niamh

N1 - Funding Information: This work was funded through the Leverhulme Trust (RC-2015-011). Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences.

PY - 2023/3

Y1 - 2023/3

N2 - Early and accurate visualisation of a crime scene is highly desirable such that a rapid, agile, and informed decision-making process can be undertaken by an investigative team. We present a new standard operating procedure for imaging an indoor scene using DSLR cameras conventionally used by crime scene investigators and examiners. The standard operating procedure (SOP) enables the systematic photography of indoor spaces in such a way that the Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry technique can be implemented, allowing the scene to be recreated in Virtual Reality (VR). To demonstrate the method’s validity, we compare two VR-rendered representations of an example scene using (a) photographs taken by an experienced crime scene examiner using a conventional photographic method and (b) photographs taken by a novice photographer following the developed SOP.

AB - Early and accurate visualisation of a crime scene is highly desirable such that a rapid, agile, and informed decision-making process can be undertaken by an investigative team. We present a new standard operating procedure for imaging an indoor scene using DSLR cameras conventionally used by crime scene investigators and examiners. The standard operating procedure (SOP) enables the systematic photography of indoor spaces in such a way that the Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry technique can be implemented, allowing the scene to be recreated in Virtual Reality (VR). To demonstrate the method’s validity, we compare two VR-rendered representations of an example scene using (a) photographs taken by an experienced crime scene examiner using a conventional photographic method and (b) photographs taken by a novice photographer following the developed SOP.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85146864942

U2 - 10.1016/j.scijus.2023.01.001

DO - 10.1016/j.scijus.2023.01.001

M3 - Article

C2 - 36870703

SN - 1355-0306

VL - 63

SP - 238

EP - 250

JO - Science & Justice

JF - Science & Justice

IS - 2

ER -