Which are the best forensic tools for Video or Image Enhancement ?
TnX
In my previous job we had a team dedicated to Audio/Visual enhancement for CCTV footage and various other types of media. You have asked a very basic question for a very complex field.
Can you be specific?
What do you have? (ie Jpeg, AVI, MPEG etc)
Where did it come from?
Quality (how many channels etc if you know, stereo/analog/DTS, HD, Codecs in use)?
What are you trying to accomplish?
I know from experience is you have low quality video/audio and you are trying to clean up background noise then you will have very little chance. How much you can manipulate a picture or video file depends very largely on the quality of what you have to work with.
ThanQ for reply Adam,
Every day we recieve some cases related to enhancing multimedia files thats mostly from CCTV anolog camera,
Forensically we have many application to work with that like Cognitech Video investigator…
here I am looking for batter application then that ?
thnX
I will contact my former colleagues and see what software tools they are using for CCTV at the moment.
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This is the reply I was given by an AV expert who works for the Police over here..
They are Starwitness and Cognitech. There is a steep learning curve with the latter. Both systems will work with any video that can be fed into them i.e. analog or digital.
Ocean Systems have some good plugins for AVID Media Composer and Photoshop.
Adobe CS production suite can also do some good things.
In short the tool used depends on the quality of footage. I see a lot of footage, mainly digital, that regardless of what tools you have, there is not much that can be done.
Not too indepth, but as he says it largely depends on what you have to start with.
Hi, you can also give a look at Amped Five http//ampedsoftware.com (disclaimer I am the founder of the company).
Amped five +1
Sorry for the very late response, but I just joined the forum. I rely upon dozens of commercial applications (MotionDSP-Ikena, Amped-Five, Photoshop-CS6, etc…). While these do provide amazing results, you should also consider the open-source alternatives (ForeVid.org, VideoCleaner.com, gimp.org), which offer similar features.
Although no one tool can do everything, if you are looking for one recommendation then Amped Five may be what you require.
This tool is relatively easy to learn to navigate as comes as a complete package. Like all commercial forensic tools you should consider undertaking training to get the most out of the product.
Amped Five can handle photos and video.
The open source tools that Doug recommends are worth looking into.