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 Marco Fontani

Marco Fontani is the Forensics Director at Amped Software, a software company developing image and video forensic solutions for law enforcement agencies worldwide. He earned his MSc in Computer Engineering in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2014. His research focused on image watermarking and multimedia forensics. He participated in several research projects funded by the EU and EOARD, and authored/co-authored over 30 journal and conference proceedings papers. He has experience in delivering training to law enforcement and provided expert witness testimony on several forensic cases involving digital images and videos. He is a former member of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee, and he actively contributed to the development of ENFSI’s Best Practice Manual for Image Authentication.

Detecting AI-generated Images Obtained with Text-to-image Models in Amped Authenticate

Reading time: 8 minOur latest article explains the difference between various kinds of deepfakes and how to detect AI images generated by commercial text-to-image models (Dall-E, Midjourney) with Amped Authenticate’s newest Diffusion Model Deepfake filter.

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Marco Fontani • May 22, 2024
Amped Authenticate Update 33562: New Diffusion Model Deepfake Filter, New Features for the Video Mode, and Much More!

Reading time: 8 minAdvanced diffusion model deepfake detection capabilities are coming into Amped Authenticate with this latest update, plus new tools and features for the Video mode!

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Marco Fontani • May 16, 2024
DeepPlate: Amped’s Investigative Tool for AI-Powered License Plate Reading

Reading time: 10 minDeepPlate is our new AI-based license plate reading service for investigative use. It currently supports 15 countries and is freely accessible for users with a valid Amped FIVE SMS plan through the Amped Support Portal. Dear Amped friends, we’re super excited to share some great news! Starting today, we’re launching DeepPlate, an online system for […]

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Marco Fontani • February 28, 2024
Amped Authenticate Update 31646: Introducing the New Video Mode and the Renewed GUI

Reading time: 10 minDear loyal friends, welcome to a new (and massive!) Amped Authenticate update announcement! We’re thrilled to share with you a major breakthrough: we’re releasing the new Authenticate Video Mode! Yes, that’s right: we’ve built a new home in Authenticate, entirely dedicated to video authentication. And we’ve also renewed the Graphical User Interface (GUI). There’s a […]

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Marco Fontani • December 6, 2023
How To Reveal AI-generated Images by Checking Shadows and Reflections in Amped Authenticate

Reading time: 2 minThe rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is nowadays transforming various aspects of human life. Recent breakthroughs in large language models have empowered them to produce essays indistinguishable from human writing. Similarly, AI has gained the ability to create images from simple textual prompts, generating seemingly authentic yet entirely fabricated images. This remarkable capability of […]

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Marco Fontani • October 11, 2023
Introducing Amped Engine: Our New Product to Integrate Video Conversion Everywhere

Reading time: 3 minDear friends, we’re very thrilled to announce a new addition to the Amped ecosystem for forensic image and video analysis! Amped Engine is a command-line tool that brings Amped’s unmatched proprietary video conversion capabilities to your software, service, or video management solution in general. Keep reading to learn more about this new entry in Amped’s […]

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Marco Fontani • June 29, 2023
Amped Authenticate Update 27947: Introducing New Color Styles, Improvements to Reports, Annotations, and More!

Reading time: 4 minDear Amped friends, the time for a new Amped Authenticate update has already come! Following the much-appreciated suggestions from our users, we’ve brought two new color styles into the software, plus other improvements. Keep reading to find out more!

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Marco Fontani • March 1, 2023
Amped’s New Deepfake Detection Algorithm Published in Journal of Imaging

Reading time: 3 minDear Amped friends, we are glad to share some good news with you all. After months of complex research and testing work, we developed an effective deepfake detection algorithm. The technique can detect GAN-generated images. These are synthesized faces “invented” from scratch by a suitably trained neural network (check this article for an introduction to […]

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Marco Fontani • November 30, 2022
Amped Authenticate Update 26549: New Face GAN Deepfake Detection Filter, Updated Social Media Identification Database, and More

Reading time: 8 minNovember comes with a great Amped Authenticate update! We are adding GAN deepfake detection capabilities, which increases the already broad coverage of Amped Authenticate for localizing forgeries. Moreover, we’ve updated the Social Media Identification‘s signature database with hundreds of new signatures. We added one more social media, or rather a messaging app: Facebook Messenger. In […]

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Marco Fontani • November 16, 2022
Amped Authenticate Update 25108: Introducing Annotations, Improved Report, and More

Reading time: 5 minDear Amped Authenticate users, we are so glad to announce a new update to the most complete solution for image and video authenticity analysis! We have lots to show so let’s go straight to the point. Ready? Now let’s go back to our example. It would certainly help to magnify the region over the subject’s […]

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Marco Fontani • June 30, 2022
Does Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution Help Humans with Face Recognition?

Reading time: 3 minDear Amped friends, we’re glad to announce that our research team, in collaboration with prof. Sergio Carrato (University of Trieste), authored a new scientific article! The title is the same as this post’s: “Does Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution Help Humans With Face Recognition?”.

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Marco Fontani • April 27, 2022
Speed Estimation: the Full Workflow in Amped FIVE

Reading time: 9 minWe hope you’re aware of the big news. A few weeks ago, an extraordinary Amped FIVE update rolled out bringing Speed Estimation 2d filter into the software. We’ve dedicated a blog post to explain what the filter does and how to use it. We recommend that you read that post before going on with this […]

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Marco Fontani • February 9, 2022