Forensic Analysis and the Inimitability of Human Footprints

Abstract-Divers features of human body are being explored on daily basis for person identification based on their uniqueness to individuals. The use of fingerprint in crime investigation has come to stay, but criminals are getting smarter by protecting their fingerprints from being evidence at a crime scene. Concealing of footprint or shoe print is yet to become popular, some criminals still go bare footed to crime scene. Footprint can be secured and analysed using image processing techniques such as de-noising, image partitioning, pattern matching This research looks at the inimitability of person footprints, should in any circumstance foot prints are found at a scene and are required to suggest a suspect or criminal. Image processing algorithms are employed to analyse barefoot prints in other to establish the uniqueness of the footprints