Virtual Crime Scene Reconstruction with Integrated Animated Characters

This paper proposes some new techniques for the development of virtual 3D environments for crime scene reconstruction. Current techniques were investigated, which concentrate on the production of photo-realistic scenes. However, these were considered to be too specialist and expensive. The Crime Scene Creator developed here provides a cheaper and quicker alternative that allows quasiaccurate scenes to be constructed and populated with animated characters to act out crimes events, with some very encouraging results. The paper also describes some initial investigations for implementing voice recognition and natural language processing as a basis for further development.