Digital and Multimedia Evidence

Goal: to promote efficient and effective forensic examinations of digital and multimedia evidence by addressing community challenges and helping users of automated forensic tools make informed decisions 

What is NIST doing?

• Providing testing/evaluation methods and material so that
  • the community can understand what tools can and can’t do 

  • tool makers can make tools that better meet community needs

• Providing reference data to support a wide variety of needs such as

  • more efficient analysis of child sexual exploitation cases

  • databases to users find digital forensics information 

• Providing guidance on digital/multimedia forensics

Products and Services

Digital

• The National Software Reference Library (NSRL)
• Computer Forensic Tool Testing Program (CFTT) and community-based testing of the tools (Federated Testing)
• The Computer Forensics Reference Dataset (CFReDs) 
• Computer Forensics Tools & Techniques Catalog
• Digital Evidence Preservation: Considerations for Evidence Handlers

Multimedia

• Media Forensics Challenge (MFC)
• Deepfakes Challenge (Coming Soon)
• Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE)
• Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE)
• Video analytical research
  • Activity Detection in Extended Video (ActEV)
  • Fine-grained Activity Detection (FAD)
  • Video Retrieval Evaluations (TRECVID)

Associated Links

• Digital Investigation Techniques: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review
• Results from a Black-Box Study for Digital Examiners
• Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE)
• Software Quality Group
• Audio Engineering Society (AES)
• NIST Science Data Portal
• The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC)
• Center of Excellence (CSAFE)

News

Credit: R. Press/NIST

NIST Publishes Review of Digital Forensic Methods

Nov. 21, 2022

Report documents the scientific foundations of digital evidence examination and recommends ways to advance the field.

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