A team of Usal develops a software that allows to recreate in 3D what happened in any type of accident. The project has received the Research Award Spanish Police Foundation.
DIGITAL RECREATION OF THE CRIME SCENE
The use of new technologies to automate and upgrade many professions is a constant in recent years, even more since the advent of the smartphone and tablets. With the aim of facilitating the tasks to be performed many projects and initiatives arise, as is the case for ‘Forensic PW’. This software designed by a group of researchers from the University of Salamanca try simplify and cheapen the reconstruction of the scene of an incident, accident or crime simply by using photographs. “From several images of the place we can replicate what happened in three dimensions”, says Diego González Aguilera, professor who led the project. Unlike computer systems used so far-computational techniques or laser formats-, the revolutionary design “is automatic, objective and flexible.” In addition, the project combines the quality of numerical methods of photogrammetry to the speed of the algorithms from computer vision. The revolutionary initiative has been honored this week with the Spanish Police Foundation Award for Research, endowed with 20,000 euros. “We are very pleased with this distinction because it helps us to continue working to improve the software,” he says.
This system “totally low cost” lets you use photos from any camera, including mobile phones, facilitating its use. Thus, the ‘Forensic PW’ collects images from multiple views and then ‘position the point from which the photographs were taken “and provides dimensional analysis of the place.” We’re getting for each pixel in the image a three-dimensional point to settle’ says González Aguilera. This system is intended as a complementary tool when debugging responsibilities after an accident, or for know the manner in which a crime was committed. The professor recognizes that the product has been “tested” by the Scientific Police, and the idea is that researchers ‘use it’. But they claim that “everything is really alive” and they expect to increase their performance with the prize received. After two years of work, the next step is to ‘make the leap’ to new mobile devices and to enable images “to upload to the cloud” to be shared and downloaded faster. A new way to solve the mysteries that escape the eyes of the police investigators.
The objectives of this line of research are to use artificially intelligent algorithms to model and study the impact of wolves in the province of Ávila. Using spatial data, statistical Geographical Information System (GIS) approaches and Machine/Deep Learning, we hope to provide a new perspective to the study of wolf activities and attacks on local livestock. 
The advantages of artificially intelligent algorithms are multiple. These algorithms provide a new means of predicting when and where the next attack is most likely to occur. Likewise, additional research may be able to highlight which animals are more likely to be attacked. This data could be of great benefit to local agricultural communities, thus helping protect their assets and help alleviate tension that could better protect the wolf from danger of extinction.
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