Gang Graffiti Recognition and Interpretation (GARI)

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Research Areas: Prevention, Detection and Response

Principal Investigator: David Ebert

Gangs are a serious threat to public safety throughout the United States. Gang members are continuously migrating from urban cities to suburban areas. Street gang graffiti is their most common way to communicate messages, including challenges, warning or intimidation to rival gangs. It is, however, an excellent way to track gang affiliation and growth, or even sometimes to obtain membership information. The goal of this project is to use the knowledge gained from our work in mobile devices and applications and leverage it towards the development of a mobile-based system capable of image analysis. This system will provide an accurate and useful output to a user based on a database of gang graffiti images.

Personnel

Other PIs: Edward Delp

Keywords: gang graffiti