Technologies for Crime Prevention and Detection Programme

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Technologies for Crime Prevention and Detection
Programme

• Think
• Crime!

Serve Meeting 26 - 28 November 2004
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Outline of Presentation

• Programme Objectives
• Current and Future Developments
• Future Events

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Vision

• To attract and harness the skills and expertise
  of physical scientists and engineers to engage in
  research that will produce innovative technical
  approaches to prevent and detect crime in
  partnership with users

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Objectives

• To raise awareness of researchers of how their
  knowledge and skills might contribute to crime
  reduction in the UK
• To support research projects for technologies
  that will aid
• - a safe living environment
• - personal and property security
• - proof and protection of identity and
  authenticity
• - forensic science and crime detection

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Projects Supported

• 29 research projects and feasibility studies
• 4 research networks
• 6 million

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Examples of Research Projects Supported

• face recognition
• people and property tracking
• luggage examination system
• detecting unusual activities on video
• handwriting analysis
• enhanced resolution imaging
• millimetre wave imaging
• bomb blast protection
• biological agent detection

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Research Networks Supported

• Video-based Threat Assessment Biometrics
  Network (VITAB)
• International Centre for Advanced Research in
  Identification Science (ICARIS)
• Surveillance from all angles Bridging the gaps
  between science, engineering, forensics and
  criminology (SERVE)
• International Crime Science Network

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Fourth Call for Proposals

• Areas for encouragement
• crime prevention / reduction volume crime
• materials- and physics-based technology
  applications
• built environment
• designing out crime
• electronic crime (Cyber Trust Foresight)
• data extraction
• biometrics database management audio id
• systems integration
• novel forensic measurements
• information management / informatics
• tagging and tracking

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Timetable for the 4th Call

• Closing date for Research Project Outline
  Proposals
• 14 February 2005
• Closing date for Feasibility Study Proposals
• 14 February 2005
• Closing date for Network Studies
• 27 June 2005

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Crime Projects Dissemination EventIdentification
and Authentication

• Dissemination of EPSRC-supported research
  achievements and potential impact
• Presentations and posters
• User context
• London, Spring 2005

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Programme Manager Alasdair Rose Programme
Team Andy Rendell Carmine Ruggiero Nafeesa
Simjee Angharad Thomas Lindsay Weston crime_at_epsr
c.ac.uk
Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon SN2
1ET www.epsrc.ac.uk
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Thank You!

• Angharad Thomas
• angharad.thomas_at_epsrc.ac.uk