National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Partners With LTU Technologies to Help Law Enforcement Find and Identify Missing Children

LTU Technologies Donates Image-Seeker System to NCMEC

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(R) (NCMEC) now has a revolutionary tool to help locate and identify missing children and their abductors. Washington DC-based LTU Technologies Inc. has donated an Image-Seeker(TM) software system, which will allow NCMEC to provide to its law enforcement partners the latest technologies for analyzing the photographic evidence of child abuse.

The LTU Image-Seeker(TM) is an image analysis system that allows the automatic comparison of photographic images that may contain evidence of crimes against children. The software has become the worldwide standard for analysis and evidence search within images related to child exploitation. The software platform is also designed to allow cooperating law enforcement agencies to exchange key images and related data in pursuit of their investigations. By deploying the LTU platform, NCMEC will be able to facilitate the exchange of data between its partner law enforcement agencies that also use the LTU system, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the French police, the Italian police and other key law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide.

"LTU Technologies is recognized as the standard platform for digital forensic analysis in law enforcement for child abuse investigations," said Ernie Allen, president and CEO of NCMEC. "Using their technology will allow us to share critical data with the key law enforcement agencies who work with NCMEC."

"We are extremely pleased to be a NCMEC partner," commented J.J. Wallia, Vice-President of Sales (North America) of LTU Technologies. "Along with the other successful LTU law enforcement deployments, NCMEC proves the vital need for advanced image mining technology for tracking cyber criminals and identifying their innocent victims."

LTU's patented technology creates an image "DNA," or unique fingerprint, specific to a given image. This technology provides tremendous advantages over standard "MD-5 hash" algorithms used today, specifically the ability to identify a series of images as well as the detection of altered, cropped, or modified images. This helps law enforcement agencies build links and relationships between disparate cases that may lead to new information for victim identification or evidence that can be used against suspects.


(13.10.2004)

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