CSI effect: the role of a forensic video analyst is a little more than just special Hollywood effects

Reading time: 5 minForensic Focus recently interviewed Blake Sawyer, our latest addition to the Amped team to support the North American market. We are reposting the interview Forensic Focus published on its website. To see the original post on Forensic Focus, click here. Congratulations on your new role! Tell us more about your law enforcement career. How did […]

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Reading time: 2 minSome of the new simplicities afforded to us can, unfortunately, cloud ones’ judgement when dealing with images and video for legal use. Technology has, in most parts, made things incredibly easy. Take the example of photographs and video. We all now love to quickly snap a memory or record some footage of an event. We […]

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Reading time: 3 minI recently testified in court as a forensic image and video expert and, as is sometimes the case, the use of some filters to enhance images was questioned. As I have written before, there is some processing that should be entirely avoided, since it lacks accuracy and repeatability. For example, we should avoid techniques which […]

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Reading time: 2 min“Caught on CCTV”. How many times do we read or hear those words? With cities worldwide sitting under the gaze of millions of public and private cameras, it is no wonder that in many cases, the best chances of identifying an offender start with the image caught on CCTV. But, the simple task of getting […]

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