Detection of suspicious activity using mobile sensor data and Modified Sub-space K-NN for criminal investigations

Abstract

With the bulk availability of mobile sensors, the data collected from them mustn’t be wasted. Nowadays the creation of black-box software that collects this data is not a very difficult task. It is possible to detect suspicious unlawful events using this black-box data. In this paper, we present a novel way of doing forensic investigation using a modified sub-space K-NN (MSK) algorithm. The MSK algorithm is capable of detecting suspicious activities from mobile sensor data. Using this technique, we could detect any normal activity versus suspicious activity with 99.7 % accuracy. We expect the future researcher to develop on this idea and build a solid digital forensic system capable of doing bias-free decisions. Keywords: Forensic, Mobile sensor data, Black box, mobile data collection