Innovative Digital Forensic and Investigation Tools for Law Enforcement: The EMPOWER & TRACY Approach

  • Nikos Avgerinos
  • , Panagiotis Mertis
  • , Manolis Tsagaris
  • , Nikos Desipris
  • , George Lyberopoulos
  • , Elina Theodoropoulou
  • , Konstantinos Filis
  • , Jelena Sarajlić
  • , Manuel Pastor
  • , Despoina Chatzakou
  • , George Kalpakis
  • , Christos Chatzikonstantinou
  • , Dorothea Tsatsou
  • , Stefanos Demertzis
  • , Peter Leskovsky
  • , Carlos Mendes
  • , Shona Linehan
  • , John Mulcahy
  • , Ioannis Karvelas
  • , Manuel Álvarez Fernández
  • André Alegria

Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/ProceedingConference Publicationpeer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Constantly growing digitalisation in all sectors and the rapidly changing technological landscape provide vast opportunities for criminals and terrorists. Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) often lack the necessary technical and financial means as well as digital skills when preventing, detecting, investigating or prosecuting criminal and terrorist activities supported by advanced technologies. The overall goal of EMPOWER is to foster the uptake of innovative solutions based upon AI powered tools allowing Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to increase their capabilities in such investigative fields. To that end, EMPOWER will pilot test a total of eight investigative tools in the fields of Image/Video, Voice/Text and Federated Learning. During the project, eight tools will be brought to Technology Readiness Level 8, following their testing by two LEAs with operational datasets in real-life environments. The TRACY solution is an open-source platform with the aim of up taking an AI-based system, by running large scale pilots on LEA’s premises, using telecommunications metadata in a fully operational environment, in full respect of fundamental rights and personal data protection. For greater impact, the solution shall be validated by additional LEAs within the project, with the aim to be permanently used after its completion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2024 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops - MHDW 2024, 5G-PINE 2024, and AI4GD 2024, Proceedings
EditorsIlias Maglogiannis, Lazaros Iliadis, Ioannis Karydis, Antonios Papaleonidas, Ioannis Chochliouros
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages80-93
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783031632266
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event13th Mining Humanistic Data Workshop, MHDW 2024, 9th Workshop on 5G-Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge, 5G-PINE 2024 and 1st Workshop on AI in Applications for Achieving the Green Deal Targets, AI4GD 2024 held as parallel events of the IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2024 - Corfu, Greece
Duration: 27 Jun 202430 Jun 2024

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume715 IFIPAICT
ISSN (Print)1868-4238
ISSN (Electronic)1868-422X

Conference

Conference13th Mining Humanistic Data Workshop, MHDW 2024, 9th Workshop on 5G-Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge, 5G-PINE 2024 and 1st Workshop on AI in Applications for Achieving the Green Deal Targets, AI4GD 2024 held as parallel events of the IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2024
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityCorfu
Period27/06/2430/06/24

Keywords

  • Artificial intelligence
  • e-Evidence
  • law enforcement
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Security
  • Technology Deployment

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