Matek becomes our distributor.

Great fresh news. Matek Business Media Limited – UK – one of the leading forensic imaging suppliers in EMEA, has just becam our official distributor. You can read the full press release here.

Matek Business Media Ltd

New Amped Five screencasts

Some days ago I posted some new videos on youtube, showing some samples on working with Amped Five.

Enahancing a very dark license plate

Deblurring a license plate

Correct the perspective

Or you can go to Amped YouTube channel.

Amped becomes a Milestone Solution Partner

We are proud to announce that we just signed the partnership agreement with Milestone, the world leading company for what regards video management software for surveillance over IP.
In the very next future Amped Five will be integrated with the Milestone products in order to directly analyze and enhance saved video data on the fly and thus get more information from images in a very simple and fast way.

Merry Christmas from Amped team!

Press release update

In the last period no big news, except hard work on development and some articles about us on the national press and by press agencies. Here you have the links (in Italian).

AGI – Agenzia Giornalistica Italiana (11 luglio 2008)

Il Sole 24 Ore – Nova (17 luglio 2008)

L’Unità (21 luglio 2008)

Amped at the Area Science Park Press Tour

Area Science Park, the technological campus where we are located, is organizing for its 30th birthday a very interesting event for the press. Some tenths of the most well known italian scientific and economic journalists will visit today and tomorrow eight laboratories, chosen among the most representative of the center. Tomorrow  they will visit out labs to discover what’s happening here. Hoping for good reviews…  thanks for all those who are coming!

An article about Amped [Press]

Yesterday our project has been the subject of a nice article on our region’s newspaper, although the journalist actually made a mistake thinking that our name was “GdS Amped” instead of “Amped”.

Link to the article (in Italian)

Amped Five and the first watch on the moon [Case]

This is a nice and unusual story… we helped some very passionate watch collectors to decide which was the clock used by Buzz Aldrin on the first mission to the moon. Their efforts have gone in many directions, but at the end, even with a little help by Amped to restore a blurred image, the mistery found a solution. Sorry, but the document is in Italian…

Analisi Aldrin’s S/N 43 [via timezoneitalia.com]

Hello world!

If you are here, probably you already know what is Amped Five. If not, I’ll tell you now. But first of all, since a blog is something personal, I want to tell you who I am.

My name’s Martino Jerian, I live in Trieste, a beautiful city between the Adriatic-Sea and the Alps in the north-east of Italy. If English is your first language please be tolerant to my typos and grammatical errors. And remember that probably your Italian is worse than my English (lol).

Main main job is as electronic engineer, but I also work in my spare time (I like this sentence) in my familiy business, which consists of some bakeries. I love snowboarding, surfing and the so-called alternative music. Now that the alternative music is becoming mainstream I should find something new to be alternative.

At the beginning of next year I’ll become the founder of Amped, this website’s company. Amped main product will be Five, which is actually an acronym for Forensic Image and Video Enhancement. Five is an innovative tool for image and video editing and restoration, targeted to forensic and investigative applications (yes, like the stuff you see in CSI-like TV-series, where from a grainy picture of a building taken from a satellite they can zoom in to see the brand of cigarettes a person is smoking). The project started some years ago with my thesis at the University of Trieste, with a Matlab tool called MIPE (Modular Image Processing Environment) and has been thus further developed in the Area Science Park (in the surroundings of Trieste) thanks to the Innovation Factory project.

Currently Amped Five is in the last period of beta testing and it will be officially launched at the very beginning of next year. It is already used by several specialists in the field of scientific investigations and has been tested on many different real cases, but as you can guess, I can’t show publicly the results. Anyway you can find some real world (but not court critical samples in the Five samples page). Feel free to write me if you want to try the software.

The purpose of this blog is to keep in touch with the growing base of our users, and possibly to get new ones, to update you about latest development news and give some hints for using Five at its best.