Vincenzo Rinaldi
Senior Research Engineer
Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Business
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Biography
Vincenzo Rinaldi is a Senior Research Engineer at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, University of Dundee (UoD) and CTO at Ground Truth XR. He holds a master’s in software engineering from the University of Catania.
Previously, he developed Extended Reality (XR) applications for museums, education, and security as an R&D Engineer. At the UoD, he won the Engaged Early Career Researcher of the Year - Stephen Fry Award 2024 and led a project recognised with The Herald Higher Education Awards in 2023.
He collaboratively raised over £430K for research in 3D digitalisation and XR systems applied to forensic training and investigations and their commercialisation.
Research projects
Project lead
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- Research project
5G Virtual Reality Crime Scene Capture
This project will explore the use of 5G technology to speed up the image capture and reconstruction of indoor and outdoor crime scenes for Virtual Reality.
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- Research project
Using Extended Reality (XR) for crime scene visualization
We are developing new avenues of research, collaboration, education and training using Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) tools.
Stories
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- Feature
Forensic Science Virtual Reality project awarded funding from the Tay5G Challenge Fund
The Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science is a winner of the Tay5G Challenge Fund for Promising Innovations for their work on creating accurate virtual reality (VR) representations of crime scenes.
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- Press release
VR technology could revolutionise fire scene investigation
Virtual reality (VR) technology to assist in the investigation of crime scenes and fires could soon be used across Europe
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- Feature
Dundee hosts the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes Seminar: “Visualising the Future”
LRCFS hosted the European Network of Forensic Science Institute 2024 Seminar: “Visualising the Future” with 67 attendees from 19 countries. The event focused on the recording of crime scenes using photography and 3D imaging methods.
