# Plug to place: Indoor multimedia geolocation from electrical sockets for digital investigation

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Researchers propose a pipeline for indoor multimedia geolocation using electrical sockets for digital investigation.

Congratulations to lead author Kanwal Aftab and co-authors Graham Adams and Mark Scanlon on the publication of ‘Plug to place’ in Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation.
AI-generated summary of the contribution: This work introduces a novel approach to indoor geolocation, leveraging standardized plug socket designs to aid digital forensic investigations. The proposed pipeline detects and classifies plug sockets using a three-stage deep learning approach, demonstrating practical utility in identifying hotel rooms from crowd-sourced images. By addressing the challenge of indoor geolocation, this research contributes to the development of digital forensic applications and provides a foundation for a universal socket detector, with the code, trained models, and data made available open source to support further research.
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