Enhanced Reflections

Reading time: 14 minIn a nutshell: a digital image is created by a sequence of physical and digital processes. Ultimately, they produce a representation of light information in a specific moment in a specific place, as a sequence of 0s and 1s. The technical limitations of the imaging system will introduce some defects that will make the image […]

Reading time: 10 minIn the past years, policymakers dedicated a lot of attention to cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and privacy, especially in relation to video surveillance and public safety. While these are very important topics, I think we need to also dedicate some attention to the more fundamental issues that often go unnoticed and relate to the proper understanding […]

Reading time: 6 minIn April 2021, we had our second Amped User Days. This event was reserved for our users which put together 298 people from 34 different countries. While we are in constant communication with our users, we wanted to get a bird’s eye view of the industry and behaviors with video evidence. We took the opportunity […]

Reading time: 2 minVery often when potential customers are researching products, a pretty common question they ask us is “who’s using your software?”. We take privacy and security very seriously, and we don’t publish customers’ names or logos without their permission. This permission, for public safety and national security organizations, is actually quite hard to get by official […]

Reading time: 9 minIn recent days, there has been significant media attention on the Kenosha Shooting trial (“STATE OF WISCONSIN – VS – Kyle H. Rittenhouse”) where Amped FIVE has been used for evidence analysis. As a result, a previous article on this blog about the use of Artificial Intelligence in image and video forensics has been misunderstood and instrumentalized. The applicability […]

Reading time: 12 minI’ve always been quite skeptical about the use of AI for forensics and investigations. As you may have seen in some of my older posts. In recent years most of the advancements in image and video enhancement, analysis, authentication, and tampering detection have been based on AI techniques. I don’t think we can exclude anymore […]

Reading time: 9 minAmped Software has its roots in academic research. The first prototype of Amped FIVE actually started with my master’s thesis project in Electronic Engineering. In this article, I want to talk a bit about the relationship between Amped Software and science, the scientific method, and scientific research. As the title suggests, we’ll discuss what science […]

Reading time: 4 minIn the past few years, I didn’t have much time to write here, and my colleagues have been writing most of the posts on technical matters. With many big changes in the industry, and in the world at large, I thought it was time to go back to writing in first person, about something more […]