Unveiling Geometry: Critical Analysis and Application of the Geometric Mapping Plugin

🖥️ Category: Production, Technology, Critical Analysis, Criminal Investigation

✍️ Author: Tiago Stocco Sanches Valentin

📅 Date: 2024-10-27

1. Introduction

This article analyzes the tutorial presented in a video about the use of the Geometric Mapping plugin, a software used for rotating and visualizing vehicle plates at complex angles. The analysis aims to verify the accuracy of the claims, provide a practical application guide, and evaluate the reliability of the method, offering guidance for investigations and identification work. The growing use of artificial intelligence and image analysis techniques necessitates a critical evaluation of the available tools.

2. Context and Origin of Content

📍 Source or Circulation Location: YouTube (unidentified video)

🎬 Type of Content: Video tutorial

📝 Capture Method: Manual transcription of the video

🔗 Reference Link: Not applicable (unidentified video)

The video, presumably created by an individual or channel focused on investigation and technology, demonstrates the use of software to identify vehicle plates at challenging angles, a common scenario in criminal investigations and potentially in civil identification processes. The video demonstrates the use of a tool that, with the use of a plugin, has the ability to rotate images and thus reveal information that would be inaccessible in a direct visual inspection.

3. Technical Analysis and Verification

🔎 Main Claims, Data, or Procedures

• The Geometric Mapping plugin allows the rotation of vehicle plate images.

• The tool is used to reveal information at complex viewing angles.

• The plugin is widely used by police forces and investigators.

• The process involves selecting an area of the image and applying a specific plugin (Geometric Mapping - Project Mapping) to perform the rotation.

• Viewing the rotated plate requires contrast adjustments for better readability.

🔍 Classification and Evaluation

✅ True: The existence of plugins with similar functionalities is real and used in professional contexts.

⚠️ Inaccurate: The claim that the plugin is "one of the most used by the police" lacks quantitative evidence and needs to be verified with official sources.

❌ False: The simplified representation of the process does not reflect the complexity of a real investigation project, which involves evidence collection, forensic analysis, and legal procedures.

❓ Not Verifiable: The origin and exact cost of the "Geometric Mapping" plugin were not detailed in the video, making it difficult to assess its accessibility and reliability.

4. Tutorial and Practical Application

🔹 Step 1: Identification of Values or Premises

The central premise of the tutorial is the existence of software that, with the use of a specific plugin, can manipulate the geometry of an image to reveal hidden information, in this case, the plate of a vehicle at a challenging viewing angle. It is important to understand that the software uses projection and rotation algorithms to translate the visual geometry of the image into digital data, allowing digital manipulation.

🔹 Step 2: Processing or Calculation

The process involves selecting the plate area in the software and applying the "Geometric Mapping" plugin with the "Project Mapping" configuration. The software, through the plugin, interprets the geometry of the image and performs the necessary digital rotation for the plate to become visible.

🔹 Step 3: Real Application

The tutorial demonstrates the practical application:

1. Open the plate image in the software.

2. Select the plate area using the polygon tool.

3. Use the "Geometric Mapping" plugin (Project Mapping) to perform the image rotation.

4. Adjust the contrast for better plate visualization.

   
   

🔹 Step 4: Next Steps

To deepen knowledge, it is recommended:

• Research software tools for forensic image analysis.

• Explore 3D modeling techniques for investigation data visualization.

• Investigate the use of computer vision algorithms in pattern and object identification in images.

5. Recommendations and Precautions

• Verify the source of the "Geometric Mapping" software before using it, seeking information about the developer company and privacy policies.

• The use of software for image manipulation in investigations should be rigorously documented, recording all steps and results obtained.

• Recognize that, even with advanced tools, identifying vehicle plates at complex angles can be a process subject to errors and that accuracy depends on the quality of the original image and the operator's skill.

• Use the software in conjunction with other investigation techniques, such as security camera analysis and eyewitnesses.

6. Conclusion and Final Evaluation

📌 Final Summary: The tutorial demonstrates a method for rotating vehicle plate images with specific software and plugin. Although the method is conceptually valid, accuracy and reliability depend on the quality of the software, the operator's skill, and the quality of the original image.

📊 Overall Estimated Reliability: 🟠 Medium (60%) – The tutorial provides a practical guide, but the lack of information about the quality and security of the software and the need for manual adjustments make the reliability assessment somewhat uncertain.

📢 Final Verdict: The use of the "Geometric Mapping" plugin can be an aid in investigations, but it does not replace the need for a qualified professional and a complete investigative process.

📎 Original Content Analyzed: "I am conducting an investigation and I have a photo of a motorcycle in a location where I need to know who was in that location with the motorcycle plate. But you can see that I can't get the plate of this motorcycle here. It is at an angle that I can't see. And if I tell you that our program can get this plate and rotate this plate and show these numbers to us? That's exactly what we're going to do. I'm going to take here, open my program. If you don't know where to get this program, it is in the download area of both the Windows community and the hacker world community. It is complete with all the plugins inside it, okay? What I'm going to do is throw my photo into the program. It will open the photo here. I will reduce it to be able to access only the area I want there, okay? What I'm going to do now is select the polygon tool, which is this third tool here, and I'm going to select the plate area that is what I want it to give me this data. So let's go. I'm going to select our plate here. Drag it here, go down, come to the tip and go up. Done, I selected our plate here. And what I do now is select here file and I will select a new image. It will be in this configuration. You will press ok and here in this new image I will follow the same line that I followed here on the plate. Left to right and I will make a rectangle here. Just click, click and close the rectangle here. What I'm telling it is that I want it to take this plate and put it in this position. For this I will have to use a specific plugin. You will open the plugin area here and you will choose the plugin, Geometric Mapping. You will open and go to the third option, Project Mapping. You will click here, you will put the name you want of the projection. Here if it is not in bilinear, you put it in bilinear, then you select here. Create a new window and press ok. You can see here that it already gave us the plate. Here with the plate turned you can simply increase the contrast so you can see the numbers better. You come here in image, adjust the brightness and here in the brightness adjustment you select until you can see well. And look what we have here. OWF0F33. We just got our plate. This is one of the most used plugins by the police and investigators to be able to verify car plates that are at angles that are not visible. If you see that we can turn a plate like this here, then any other plate you will also be able to verify. This was our class today. The name of the plugin is Geometric Mapping. I hope you enjoyed this."