The Dutch Forensic Institute, test whether the program PhotoDNA from Microsoft can be useful for research to kinderpornozaken. PhotoDNA can be the same images found, despite differences in size or file type.
The NFI wants to begin using the software in the detection of child abuse. PhotoDNA is able to detect which files in large databases, the same image concern, even though size and file type are different. The software prevents that zedenrechercheurs again and again the same picture. Also, the application can seemingly innocent images reduce to a series with child pornography, so that the exchange networks are mapped and relationships between different things come to light.
The NFI wants to PhotoDNA, at a later stage for evidence to use, but to do this, the software must first be validated, so that a good scientific substantiation of the utility is present. Further, the software might be combined with existing filter and search tools that the NFI is used, such as Xiraf and Sieve. The NFI has been working since 2010 together with Microsoft to projects in the field of forensic investigation in combination with ict applications. The NFI, which concluded last year that are Xiraf tool for the detection of, inter alia, child pornography, slower was by the many use, after which the hostinginfrastructuur on the kick went.
Microsoft developed PhotoDNA, together with Dartmouth College and brought the software in 2009. The tool would images in less than five milliseconds to be able to compare and only one in billion cases, a false positive. Worldwide may opsporingsorganisaties the software is free to use. In the US, use Facebook and Flickr, the tool to added photos to compare with the database of the Child Victim Identification Program.