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Sex Estimation from Footwear Outsole Impressions Using CNN Transfer Learning and Interpretable Image Statistics

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Footwear outsole impressions are a common form of forensic pattern evidence, yet quantitative methods for estimating wearer attributes from these images remain relatively underdeveloped. We investigate binary sex estimation from footwear outsole impressions by comparing convolutional neural network (CNN) transfer learning with traditional feature-based classification. Using a publicly available outsole-impression dataset, we adopt a shoe-level training and test partition that keeps replicate scans of the same physical shoe together to reduce data leakage. We evaluate pretrained CNNs through en

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