co-funded by the European Union
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I-Dash is a project within the Safer Internet Plus programme. It focuses on the development of automatic tools to support police professionals in their investigations which involve large quantities of child abuse video material.
Recent years have shown rapid changes in the way we produce, handle and distribute digital media. These developments have had a similar impact on the production and distribution of child abuse. Analogue material has been mostly replaced by digital material. Illicit material is distributed efficiently and commercially via the internet. While photos are still found in huge amounts, police forces have seen a very steep increase of videos containing child abuse in the last 5 years. In the video domain, police forces worldwide are struggling because of lack of tools to handle the huge amounts of video data efficiently. I-DASH is targeted to the needs of police forces to process video material (potentially) containing child abuse and coordinate investigations at a European level.
The project will be carried out by the developmentteam: University of Amsterdam, TNO, IST, University of Surrey and ZiuZ. These partners have many years of combined experience in video analysis, European collaboration and system development for child abuse and other police investigations.
In a project like I-Dash involvement of end users is essential for success. End users are by far the best group for creating awareness among other potential end users. To establish a platform for international collaboration, a broad and significant group of end users committed to the project is critical.
The end user organisations already supporting I-DASH are:
- Ministère de la Défense (France)
- Interpol (International)
- National Police Agency (KLPD) (The Netherlands)
- Politiet (Norway)
- Rikskriminalpolisen (Sweden)
- Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (United Kingdom)
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