Adam Rossi of Platinum Solutions will present "Visual Scars, Marks, and Tattoo Matching for Law Enforcement" at the next BEACON Lecture at noon on November 14, 2007, at the Lockheed Martin BEACON Center in White Hall (Fairmont), WV.  

Platinum Solutions has developed an innovative product called "Symbolism" - a unique image matching database optimized for processing pictures of scars, marks, and tattoos on human bodies.  SMT matching is used to positively identify individuals using "biometrics at a distance" techniques, in identifying persons who do not have fingerprints or other identifying records on file, and in identifying bodies or body parts.  In the case of tattoo matching, the Symbolism software is also useful in identifying gang affiliations in addition to positive identification.  The image algorithms used in Symbolism are highly optimized for the SMT domain, particularly for the very challenging low color, high complexity tattoo types often used by gang members.  In this presentation, Rosi will review the techniques and methodologies used in Symbolism, and will then demonstrate the product using a wide variety of image types.

Adam Rossi is the president of Platinum Solutions, a company he co-founded in 1999 to serve the unique software needs of the law enforcement and intelligence communities.  Platinum Solutions creates software solutions for codebreaking, language translation, image analysis, computer forensics, and a range of other specialized areas.  Platinum Solutions' software is used by kidnapping investigators, intelligence analysts, bomb technicians, cyber crime investigators, and a number of other federal agency components engaged in mission-critical activities.  Rossi is a software architect and contributes to a number of open source Java projects.  He holds an engineering degree and an MBA from Virginia Tech.

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