LTU-Finder enables advanced image and video search in forensic investigations using Guidance Software's EnCase® .
Hash sets only identify exact matches of images and videos. LTU-Finder works by analyzing the visual features in the image or video to assess its visual content.
With LTU-Finder you can:
- Identify duplicate and modified versions of images,
- Identify scanned documents and screenshots,
- Extract keyframes of video files to quickly summarize content,
- Identify images, videos and folders which may contain pornography, and
- Identify images with faces
LTU-Finder is available for EnCase Forensic or EnCase Enterprise.
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Image Matching
LTU-Finder uses LTU "image DNA" to identify duplicate and modified images. Instead of using a hash code, which will only identify exact matches, the image DNA will identify matches as well as modified versions of an image. Using image DNA, LTU-Finder will find matches to images that have undergone common manipulations such as resizing, color changes, file type changes, the addition of text or slight crops and rotations.
LTU-Finder can search for image matches from a set of local reference images, or from a dataset generated by another LTU-Finder user or by Image-Seeker server.
Image and Video Classification
LTU-Finder can classify some of the images and videos found within EnCase. For example, LTU-Finder highlights those folders which contain pornography, images of scanned documents, and images which contain faces.
This technology works by comparing images against an image profile which defines a category of images. For example, LTU's pornography profile has been trained on more than 30K pornographic images.
Architecture
LTU-Finder is comprised of an EnPack and a license-protected library that are installed on your EnCase investigation machine.
System Requirements
- EnCase Forensic or EnCase Enterprise versions 6.10.2 or later
- Windows XP or Vista
- Must meet system requirements for running EnCase
Supported Image Types
AVS, BMP, DCX, FITS, GIF, ICO, JP2, JPEG, MTV, PCD, PCX, PICT, PIX, PNG, PSD, SUN, SCT, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIFF, VICAR, VIFF, XCF, WBMP
