IJASCSE, Vol1 Issue 2, 2012

Towards next generation, Criminal activity in virtual worlds is becoming a major problem for law enforcement agencies. Virtual communities such as Second Life will be quickly becoming the next frontier of cybercrime. Even now a day’s Forensic investigators are becoming interested in being able to accurately and automatically track people in virtual communities. Mostly in the multimedia context, an avatar is the visual representation of the self in a virtual world. In this research paper we suggest how to extract a face from an image, modify it, characterize it in terms of high-level properties, and apply it to the creation of a personalized avatar. In this research work we tested, we implemented the algorithm on several hundred facial images, including many taken under uncontrolled acquisition conditions, and found to exhibit satisfactory performance for immediate practical use. GENERAL TERMS Avatar, Virtual world, Human face, Matching, Images, Criminal Activity.