The joint project FLORIDA develops legally compliant tools for law enforcement agencies to accelerate the analysis of mass video data and make investigations more effective. In close cooperation with end users, new methods are created, including geospatial crime scene reconstruction, interactive visual analytics, video data prioritization, object-based search, and audio analysis. Combining these methods significantly reduces the volume of data to be processed, allowing investigators to focus on relevant events and make well-founded decisions. In Germany, FLORIDA is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the program “Research for Civil Security”, under the focus area “Aspects and measures in fighting terrorism.”

Selected Results

Research prototype of FLORIDA project. A detailed 3D reconstruction of the crime scene is enriched with automatically detected objects from multiple input image/video sources. Integrated annotation capabilities allow investigators to re-enact the sequence of events before and after the investigated crime.