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Rimage Aids Law Enforcement with the Evidence Disc System

April 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Rimage® Corporation (Nasdaq: RIMG), the industry-leading provider of on-demand
CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc publishing systems, has introduced the Rimage Evidence Disc
System, a series of solutions specifically designed to automate the ingestion
and analysis of optical media evidence.

Using industrial grade robotics, CD/DVD/Blu-ray combination recorders, and an
integrated digital camera, the Rimage Evidence Disc System automatically picks
evidence discs from input bins, photographs the top of each disc, ingests and
analyzes the recorded content and then prepares a report by disc and case – all
unattended and without altering or compromising the evidence discs in any way.
This automated process is more than 87% faster than manual alternatives which
often tie up skilled digital forensics examiners for days or weeks.

“This solution really streamlines and simplifies our customer`s workflow,” said
Christopher Wells, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Rimage. “The
easy-to-use software makes ingesting digital evidence simple, and all the data
exports directly into leading desktop forensic analysis software packages so it
can be combined with other case information.”

The Rimage Evidence Disc System can photograph and analyze up to 300 CDs, DVDs,
or Blu-ray discs at a time in mixed batches and without operator intervention.
Evidence can be seized, bundled as is, and then analyzed quickly and
efficiently. In addition, the Evidence Disc System leverages Rimage`s current
product line and offers the features and functionality that allow it to perform
double duty as both a network CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc publisher and an archiving
appliance.

“As high-tech crime proliferates all over the world, we are proud to provide
innovative solutions that allow digital investigators to keep pace with the
criminal production of illegal content,” reports James Krainock, Forensics
Marketing Manager, Rimage, from the Counter Terror Expo in London.

For more information visit Rimage.com.

Rimage Corporation (www.rimage.com) is the world`s leading innovator of
recordable media publishing solutions. Rimage systems can be found all over the
world, serving 83 of the Fortune 100 companies. Rimage focuses its
CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc publishing solutions on a set of vertical markets with
special needs for customized, on-demand digital information.

Blu-ray Disc is a trademark of the Blu-ray Disc Association

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17 Indians sentenced to death for killing a Pakistani in UAE

March 29, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Mon, Mar 29 01:50 PM

Seventeen Indians have been sentenced to death by Sharjah’s Shariah Court for killing a Pakistani man and injuring three others in a vicious attack last year.

Judge Yousuf Al Hamadi sentenced the 17 men to death after all evidence, including DNA tests, showed they had knifed the Pakistani to death, ‘Khaleej Times’ reported on Monday.

The victim had died of his wounds after he was stabbed repeatedly on various parts of his body and had also suffered brain damage, police said.

The attack in January last year followed a fight over the control of the illegal liquor business in Al Sajaa area of Sharjah, one of the emirates of UAE, the paper said.

The police had said the suspects had attempted to kill three other compatriots of the victim, but they managed to escape and were rushed to Kuwaiti Hospital for treatment.

The convicted men are aged between 17 and 30 years.

According to the three Pakistanis who survived, 50 people set upon them with knives on that fateful day last year.

Police had rushed to the area and arrested the 17, who had allegedly led the attack. The others were let off due to lack of evidence.

During court hearings, all the suspects confessed they had fought with and murdered the victim. Forensics reports and DNA tests also proved their role in the crime.
Agencies

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Forensics database set up in Perth

March 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Researchers in Perth are building a database of skeletons to help identify bodies more quickly and accurately.

The University of Western Australia has been given a $400,000 grant for the project, which involves mapping the shape and co-ordinates of bones.

Assistant Professor Daniel Franklin has told WA’s Stateline program, police will then use the database to identify specific features of skeletons such as the age, sex and ethnicity.

“They could digitise various parts of the skeleton whether it be the skull, hip bone or various leg bones, we should have data for all of that,” he said.

“The police should be able to get an answer as to whether the individual was a male or a female, potentially how old they were.”

WA Police Superintendent, Haydn Green, was in charge of identifying the victims in Phuket from the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.

He says the database will be extremely helpful in the future.

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Machines can’t recognise images like humans as yet

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep 10 (ANI): Computers might have reached a point where they can replicate many aspects of human behaviour, but still they cannot recognize distorted images like humans do, says a team of Penn State researchers.

James Z. Wang, along with Ritendra Datta and Jia Li at Penn State, explored the difference in human and machine recognition of visual concepts under various image distortions.

“Our goal is to seek a better understanding of the fundamental differences between humans and machines and utilize this in developing automated methods for distinguishing humans and robotic programs,” said Wang.

The researchers used those differences to design image-based CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), visual devices used to prevent automated network attacks.

Many e-commerce web sites use CAPTCHAs, which are randomly generated sets of words that a user types in a box provided in order to complete a registration or purchasing process. This is done to verify that the user is human and not a robotic program.

In the study, a demonstration program with an image-based CAPTCHA called IMAGINATION was presented on imagination.alipr.com.

Both humans and robotic programs were observed using the CAPTCHA.

While the scope of the human users was limited, the results of the study proved that robotic programs were not able to recognize distorted images.

In other words, a computer recognition program had to rely on an accurate picture, while humans were able to tell what the picture was even though it was distorted.

Wang said that he is hoping to work with developers in the future to make IMAGINATION a CAPTCHA program that Web sites can use to strengthen the prevention of automated network attacks.

Although machine recognizability does not exceed human recognizability at this time, Wang is optimistic that it would be possible in the future.

“We are seeing more intelligently designed computer programs that can harness a large volume of online data, much more than a typical human can experience in a lifetime, for knowledge generation and automatic recognition. If certain obstacles, which many believe to be insurmountable, such as scalability and image representation, can be overcome, it is possible that one day machine recognizability can reach that of humans,” said Wang.

The study has been presented in the latest issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. (ANI)

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‘Murray winning Wimbledon will make him Beckham of tennis world with 100 mln pound deal’

July 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, June 30 (ANI): British tennis ace Andy Murray could secure a 100 million pounds sponsorship deal if he wins Wimbledon, analysts have predicted.

Marketing analysts have forecast that winning Wimbledon may make the 21-year-old Scot a new David Beckham of the tennis world, sparking off a bidding war between brands.

“If he actually won, we’re talking 100 million pound-plus, because it’s just going to go on and on from there. He would become a new David Beckham of the tennis world, then he goes totally international. I have seen reports that start at 80 million or 100 million pounds and go on from there,” The Scotsman quoted Jonathan Gabay of Brand Forensics, as saying.

Gabay added that Murray could be much bigger than Tim Henman.

“Henman had the underdog quality that the English love; they could identify with him. But if Murray picks up the tournament, then he becomes a worldwide phenomenon. It would be particularly powerful because given that nobody (British] has won it in decades, he would be a one-off,” he said.

When Murray won match point against Stanislas Wawrinka in the five-set battle, the audience reached 12.6 million, with an average of 8.6 million watching during the match’s duration.

More than half of UK TV viewers were watching BBC1 in the build-up to Murray’s triumph, figures showed.

A BBC spokesman said: “From the outset it looked like the match was going to be very close so we took the decision to move it to BBC1 and to stay with it right to the end to ensure the maximum number of people could enjoy this game.”

High profile sponsors of Murray can expect to see a boost through association with the player.

Professor Paul Freathy, marketing expert at Stirling University, said: “If people can see a sport being successful by an individual, then there’s an uptake on it. That has an effect on the amount of kit being sold. For anyone sponsoring Murray, this exposure will create an awareness of that brand – it’s then down to them to capitalise on it.” (ANI)

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3-D ‘virtual’ models of crime scenes to revolutionise forensic probes

January 12, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

London, Jan 12 (ANI): Forensics experts would no longer have to visit the site of a crime again and again for their probe, thanks to Kiwi researchers who have developed a 3D scanner that can create a ‘virtual’ model of any given area.

The team led by Robert Valkenburg of Industrial Research in Auckland, New Zealand, has developed a computerised 3D model that can be navigated as if investigators were at the crime scene.

The hand held device consists of a laser scanner combined with a digital camera, which can record a scene with millimetre accuracy.

The scanner creates a 3D model of the scene, onto which images from the camera are superimposed.

With the help of a local GPS system, in which a number of “satellites” placed on tripods around the scene emit laser pulses, the device creates a virtual model of the scene, reports New Scientist magazine.

There are sensors fitted to the scanner that allow the device to calculate its position by triangulation.

According to Valkenburg, at least 20 of such laser beacons are needed. The more beacons, the greater the accuracy.

Valkenburg said that as the device is swiped in front of objects, walls or other surfaces, they automatically appear on screen “like brushstrokes”.

The device can also be used to scan heritage sites, historical artefacts and movie and video game props, he added. (ANI)

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