FORMS – Forensic Marks Search∗

The goal of the project FORMS is to support the search and comparison of toolmarks by forensic experts with a semi-automatic system in order to identify and solve connected criminal cases. The proposed methodology uses a neural network with triplet architecture to compute similarities between toolmark images. Further, to allow an accurate evaluation under real-world conditions a dataset consisting of more than 3000 images of cylinder locks with toolmarks from real criminal cases is created as part of the project.