Enhancing Videos for Forensic Purposes - How do we do it?

The objective of Forensic Video Enhancement is to clarify or enhance the events as they occurred. This is done using non destructive techniques to preserve the video evidence integrity, and pixel quality.

At the TCG Forensic Division, the digital forensics experts are often asked to enhance CCTV Surveillance video recordings for court. Often times they are asked to provide video image enhancement as well for identification purposes.

A variety of video enhancement techniques can be applied in different arrangements on CCTV Surveillance video evidence. The most important ingredient to this forensic process is maintaining the highest quality of the video evidence. This provides the highest success possible throughout the investigation.

Did you know that the TCG Forensic Division will now be an Africa exclusive agent for Ikena Forensic Software? Not only does Ikena offer some of the best software programs available today, but full enhancement of your videos and images will always be possible!

- Scaling/Pixel Interpolation: Re-size, or scale an image or video to a larger resolution to further identify suspects.

- Sharpening: Enhances the edge contrast of an image or video.

- Stabilization: This is most common today with smart phone video evidence. It reduces the amount of movement from the user that created the video evidence.

- Frame Averaging: Increase the quality of the image by combining data from surrounding frames as well as a better signal to noise ratio in your images or videos.

- Speed Reduction: Decrease the original playback of video evidence to view the events as they occurred in more detail.

If you have a video that you question or need help understanding, please give us a call on 087 001 0512 or email info@cellularforensics.co.za

Take a look at the Ikena software at work:

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What is Ikena Forensic and what can it do for you?

Would you like to see a video more clearly? Perhaps you need to clear up a video to see a criminal’s license plate number, or maybe the face of a thief you captured?

Here at DLA, we are now an Africa Exclusive Agent for Ikena Forensic, meaning that all those valuable details that you’ve been missing will now be revealed!

Unlike all the other video clarification software out there, Ikena Forensic applies multiple advanced algorithms to fix any issues that destroy the quality of the video.

Here are several of the patented algorithms that will help you get the most out of your video...

Super Resolution – Multiple frames of video are combined to recover details and remove noise.

Deinterlacing – 2x resolution is recovered with kernel regression deinterlacing.

Light & Contract – Uncovers details that you may have missed in your video.

Stabilization – Stabilizes shaky video from the most extreme cases with multiple frame stabilization.

The difference when we use the Ikena Forensic is clear – all the critical information that you were missing before is revealed!

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Contact us here for more information... info@cellularforensics.co.za or 082 886 8327 / 021 551 6222