In this article I’m going to share tools, my findings and tricks that I was able to gather. Let’s imagine that you have only one or few picture of person that you are looking for. It can be also video, or snapshots captured from a video.
You can find below the list of the resources from which I prefer to start my image investigations.
Face recognition AI technology:
For example, we will load 3 pictures of the following person:
And we can see an incredible results with a lot of links to social media accounts.
To get these links we need to pay. The cheapest package costs now 19$. Lets check the other service.
As you can notice, with this particular example PimEyes wasn’t perfect. But fair to say, I had other pictures where this source was strong enough. To unlock access we also have to pay, and it costs about $17.99 at the moment.
So…what can we try to do next with the obtained results?..
Image similarity algorithms :
We can use a small trick and crop some pictures from previous results:
Voila! We can find social media of this person, his supposed identity and pages with this image:
You can also receive the similar information with yandex image search:
We will cover other stages of HUMINT investigation in my next article soon. Hope this is useful info for you!