Forensic Workflow

Reading time: 2 min“SEEING IS BELIEVING.” Or, rather, that’s what we used to say. Since the beginning of time, seeing a fact or a piece of news depicted in an image was far more compelling than reading it, let alone hearing about it from someone else. This power of visual content probably stemmed from its immediacy. Looking at […]

Reading time: 4 minDear friends welcome to this week’s tip! Today we’ll talk about something that is more of a philosophy than a feature. As such, you’ll find it reflected in all Amped products. We’re talking about the way Amped solutions deal with export formats and project files. We’ll show you how compatible our export formats are and […]

Reading time: 4 minDear Amped friends, today we’re sharing with you something big. If you’ve been following us, then you know that Amped invests lots of resources into research and testing. We also join forces with several universities to be on the cutting edge of image and video forensics. During one of these research ventures with the University […]

Reading time: 5 minDear Amped friends, welcome to this week’s tip! Another release of Amped FIVE has just been published. We want to take this opportunity to make a special Tip Tuesday. With some examples, we’ll show you why you should keep your Amped products updated! We’ll do it in a comparative fashion. We’ll show you the best […]

Reading time: 4 minDear friends, welcome to this Tip Tuesday! It’s a rather anomalous one, indeed, since we’ll not show any trick about using a specific Amped solution as usual. But we’ll still provide you with a very good tip: we’ll guide you through some of the freely available datasets you can find online, that you can use […]

Reading time: 3 minAs a Certified Forensic Video Analyst, one of the hardest calls is stating that nothing can be done. I cannot recover that face, that logo, or that license plate. I have written many articles, and spoken at conferences, about the challenges with CCTV video evidence, so getting a result from poor footage can be immensely […]

Reading time: 4 minOn Tuesday, May 22, I will be in Providence (RI, USA) at the Annual IACP Technology Conference to present a lecture. The topic, “Proprietary Video Files— The Science of Processing the Digital Crime Scene” is rather timely. Many years ago, the US Federal Government responded to the NAS Report with the creation of the Organization of Scientific […]

Reading time: 7 minThere were a couple of interesting discussions this week which prompted me to write this blog post. One is related to the scientific methods used during the analysis of images and videos, the other relates to the tools used. There was a pretty interesting and detailed conversation that happened on an industry specific mailing list […]

Reading time: 5 minA crime occurs and is “witnessed” by a digital CCTV system. The files that your investigation wants/needs are in the system’s recording device (DVR). What do you do to get them? Do you seize the entire DVR as evidence (“bag and tag”)? Do you try to access the recorder through its user interface and download/export/save […]

Reading time: 3 minIt’s a common question during training – “What Monitor to use?” One of the many reasons why people start using software like Amped FIVE is that it installs and runs on any modern Windows PC. There is no need to have huge amounts of hardware or specific configurations. A good, stable setup will work perfectly well.

Reading time: 5 minI’m at Schiphol again! For those unaware, this is the airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I’m often here as I use this airport as a layover for many international flights when I can’t get one from my local airport in the UK. This time though I have stayed here, in the Netherlands, delivering more Amped […]

Reading time: 10 minWe work in the field of forensic video analysis, which is generally intended as the analysis of the images themselves and their context in a legal setting. For this reason, our customers often ask us if our products are valid for court use and if they have been validated and certified. We have written this […]