Martino, please tell us about your role as the Founder & CEO at Amped Software, and what led you to found the company.
Amped Software was derived from my master thesis of Electronic Engineering at the University of Trieste, Italy, in 2005. The thesis was done in cooperation with the Scientific Investigation Department of Carabinieri (Italian Military Police) in Parma; this is probably the most well known forensic lab in Italy, thanks also to an Italian CSI style TV show. Usually in academia, you always work in simulated situations created ad hoc in the lab, but from the very beginning, I worked on real footage coming from CCTV (closed-circuit television) cameras.
The result of my work was presented at some conferences of both the forensic and image processing fields (one even before graduating), where I discovered that there was a strong interest for my work. Some competitor products were already on the market at that time, but the common opinion was that they were very pricey, did not offer very advanced functions, were difficult to use, and did not withstand scrutiny in the courtroom…
