Crime Scene Virtual Tour. Just on the Spot

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2 Introducing Crime Scene Virtual Tour Virtual Tour Solution for Crime Scene Investigation Crime Scene Virtual Tour (CSVT) provides a distinctive virtual reality solution for crime scene investigation and reconstruction, which is used to document and observe complete information of crime scene. Based on 360 degree panoramic images, Crime Scene Virtual Tour is a multi-media tool which integrates panoramic crime scenes images, still images, interactive map, slideshow, texts, audios, links, thumbnails, etc. It provides an easy way to reconstruct a 3D crime scene through photographs and offers unparalleled features to crime scene investigators, which takes them back to the crime scenes and enables them to wander through the scene. With conventional photography, dozens of overlapping shots are needed to achieve a 360 filed of view, and you could still have confusing perspectives and limited range. But with CSVT, you can look at the scene from any angle and have an overall idea on the place without losing any suspicious clew. You can even zoom, pan, tilt and rotate the scene while considering the fact of the crime, as if you were really on the scene. A picture is supposedly worth thousand words, and a virtual tour of crime scene could be a piece of evidence that convinces the jury. In this virtual tour, you feel as if you wandered in the actual place by operating the images and watching the walkthrough displayed in the viewer. This kind of immersive experience can never be provided by conventional pictures. It faithfully represents the real scene and makes you feel just on the spot. Crime scene virtual tour is a combination of many useful factors. Usually, there are always some instructions for every picture you take from the crime scene, Crime Scene Virtual Tour offers the possibility to view images and relevant texts at the same time, which saves you time for matching every single picture to every piece of text paper. Through the links and thumbnails in crime scene virtual tour, you can easily and quickly find the image and information you need, much more effective than searching from a pile of documents. Crime Scene Virtual Tour requires an operational knowledge of camera, no special training is required. The software makes it easy to build a virtual tour for crime scene investigation with high quality. The straightforward, easy-to-use interface enables you to generate accurate images in very short time. Its great compatibility allows you to display multiple types of image as well as other literal and audio factors. As a new documentation and presentation way, Crime Scene Virtual Tour will continue to prove its great significance. Its capabilities and advantages will continue to impress its users. Photograph is the most widely use way for recording crime scene information. With ordinary photographs, you only see particular parts of certain scene, but hardly see the places which are not taken in the photos. Crime Scene Virtual Tour breaks the limitation. Without going to the actual location, you are able to operate on the scenes, like walking inside to find your own concentration, but not just observing what other people s cameras focus. Interactive map is an important and unique feature in crime scene virtual tour. You may add a crime scene sketching beside the images, and use its synchronized scanning function just like radar. With this visible way, it is easier to orient every piece of evidence in the entire environment. Compared with flat photographs, Crime scene virtual tour gives you the possibility to zoom and navigate the images, add interactive map, texts, links, etc. You can integrate normal photographs into it as well. It is a relatively more objective way to reflect all information in crime scene

Based on 360 degree panoramic images, Crime Scene Virtual Tour is a multi-media tool which integrates panoramic crime scenes images, still images, interactive map, slideshow, texts, audios, links,

3 Applications Crime scene investigation and documentation Case study and analysis Presentation on court Train staff Tactical response Features Interactive Zoom in/ zoom out Navigate vertically and horizontally Immersive Feel you were really in the place where crime happens Easily control the information provided by suspect Informative 360 degree field of view Overall idea about the crime scene Integrative Crime scene images Interactive map Slideshows Still images Texts Links Thumbnails All required elements combined together in one tool Zooming and navigating the images This image, which is formed by two shots, includes all the information of the entire space. Descriptions and interactive map Easy as 1, 2, 3! Only three steps are needed for creating a crime scene virtual tour. Step 1: Crime scene image preparation: Shoot the crime scene images with relative equipment including a digital camera, a fisheye converter, a pano head (rotator), and a tripod. Step 2: Stitching: Import the crime scene shots into CSVT Stitcher, just click on the button auto stitching to get a 360 degree crime scene

Integrative Crime scene images Interactive map Slideshows Still images Texts Links Thumbnails All required elements combined together in one tool Zooming and navigating the images This image, which

4 Step 3: Create integrated crime scene virtual tour: After stitching, import the crime scene images in CSVT Publisher to edit a complete virtual tour. What You Need Software: Crime Scene Virtual Tour 2.00 Hardware: SLR Digital Fisheye lens Pano head Tripod Camear Additional equipment and product information can be found at Featured Customers FBI Laboratory Nederlands Forensisch Instituut Police Station of Zurich Orange County Fire Rescue Polismyndigheten Västra Götaland Elkhart County Sheriff's Department Detective Bureau Elizabethtown Community and Technical College 13th division of National Security Bureau Headquarters of the General Staff of PLA Forensic Technologies department of Beijing Police Station Criminal investigation department of Beijing Police Station Forensic Technologies department of Shanghai Police Station Forensic Science and Technology department of Hainan Police Station - 4 -

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A Novel Plan for Crime Scene Reconstruction. Guangjun Liao 123 Faculty of Forensic Science and Technology, Guangdong Police College

A Novel Plan for Crime Scene Reconstruction. Guangjun Liao 123 Faculty of Forensic Science and Technology, Guangdong Police College 123 Faculty of Forensic Science and Technology, Guangdong Police College Guangzhou, China 510320 E-mail: 56114827@qq.com Yali Zheng School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and