STARLIGHT research was presented at the SPIE conference on Artificial Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications (15–18 September 2025, Madrid).
Sabina B. van Rooij (TNO) presented the paper, “Combining and enhancing global and local vision foundation models for explainable tattoo matching,” a collaboration with CERTH. The work demonstrates how combining global and local vision models can improve tattoo matching in criminal investigations while increasing explainability for end-users.
This contribution reflects STARLIGHT’s focus on practical, ethically aligned AI/ML for law enforcement and forensic contexts.