Visualizing the Path of a Photo Taker from Image Metadata
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Majid, Rasty Shakhawan; Varol, Cihan; Varol, Asaf; Nasab, Ahad
- Source
- 2023 4th International Informatics and Software Engineering Conference (IISEC) Informatics and Software Engineering Conference (IISEC), 2023 4th International. :1-7 Dec, 2023
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Photography
Visualization
Web services
Geology
Metadata
Software
Satellite images
Geo-location
Google map
Google API
Security
Mobile Forensics
- Language
One of the most challenging investigations in forensic analysis is the work conducted on smartphones. Specifically using smartphone data to provide evidence for a case is becoming a norm nowadays. Many Android device applications use and work with location services that assist investigators in working with log files that store valuable information. Images captured on Android devices will save geolocation information, date, and time in the properties. In this work, a tool is developed to acquire the date and geolocation for each taken photo so that the path of the photo taker can be displayed on Google Maps. The work showed that the application can take about 4 and a half seconds to process four images and display the map to the investigator.