An Ensemble Deep Neural Network for Footprint Image Retrieval Based on Transfer Learning

Abstract

As one of the essential pieces of evidence of crime scenes, footprint images cannot be ignored in the cracking of serial cases. Traditional footprint comparison and retrieval require much time and human resources, significantly affecting the progress of the case. With the rapid development of deep learning, the convolutional neural network has shown excellent performance in image recognition and retrieval. To meet the actual needs of public security footprint image retrieval, we explore the effect of convolution neural networks on footprint image retrieval and propose an ensemble deep neural network for image retrieval based on transfer learning. At the same time, based on edge computing technology, we developed a footprint acquisition system to collect footprint data. Experimental results on the footprint dataset we built show that our approach is useful and practical.