Use cases
This chapter describes the most common use cases that Innovatrics ABIS Criminal Investigation is deployed for. Every use case is supported by configurable workflows so that the platform can be aligned with the standard operating procedures of the agency.
Latent print investigation
A latent print is lifted from the crime scene and uploaded to the case as an evidence. A forensic specialist opens the print in the Latent Editor, separates overlapping prints, masks the region of interest, refines the auto-detected minutiae and runs identification against the criminal galleries.
Candidates returned by the matcher are reviewed in the Comparison Tool; the examiner records an Individualized, Excluded or Inconclusive decision. A second examiner repeats the procedure independently as part of ACE-V Verification.
Facial identification from CCTV / body-worn cameras
Photographs or video clips obtained from CCTV systems, body-worn cameras or witness devices are uploaded as evidence. The Video Manager processes the recordings faster than real time, detects every face of acceptable quality and identifies each detected person against the criminal galleries.
Identified persons are presented in a dedicated Person view that groups all occurrences of the same individual across multiple recordings, while unidentified persons remain in the case as candidates for manual investigation.
Watch-list / lookout searches
Agencies frequently need to check whether a face captured at an airport, a stadium or a public event is on a wanted list. The face is sent to ABIS as a probe, the system performs a 1:N search against the relevant criminal gallery (for example Wanted Persons), and any candidate above the configured threshold is returned to the requesting system with all its metadata for further investigation.
Booking / suspect enrolment
When a suspect is brought into custody, ten-print, palm-print, mugshot and (optionally) iris records are captured and enrolled into the criminal gallery as a new criminal record. The enrolment workflow performs an automatic deduplication search; if the suspect is already known, the existing record is updated and linked to the previous arrests, otherwise a brand-new record is created.
Cold-case re-investigation
Old cases can be re-examined when new candidates appear in the gallery. The case folder still contains the original evidence, the original snapshots and the original examination history. The examiner can re-run identification at any time, and any new hit is automatically linked to the original case.
Mass-event investigation
In incidents involving many suspects (riots, terrorist attacks, large fraud schemes), agencies can create one shared case containing dozens or hundreds of pieces of evidence. Workflows and queues distribute the workload across the available examiners, while the audit log keeps an accurate record of who did what.
Cross-jurisdiction cooperation
Cases, evidences and snapshots can be exported in standard ANSI/NIST-ITL containers and shared with other agencies. The receiving agency can import the package using the Migration API and continue the investigation in their own ABIS deployment.
Personal / ad-hoc work
Each user has a private Personal case. It serves as a sandbox for one-off comparisons and quick checks that do not need to be shared with the rest of the team. Personal cases are governed by the same access rules and audit logging as shared cases.
DNA-based identification
When biological material is recovered from a crime scene, the DNA profile is uploaded as an evidence. The DNA Identification module compares the profile against profiles stored in the criminal gallery and is also able to find kinship relations – a powerful feature for identifying victims and missing persons.
Reporting and court presentation
Every hit produces a detailed Hit detail report that contains the probe image, the reference image, the matching minutiae, the visual annotations and the score breakdown. Examiners can also export individual evidences with all of their metadata (snapshots, minutiae, annotations, qualities) for inclusion in the court file.