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Audio and video enhancement are not as simple as police TV shows make them sound; it’s much more complex. Our team of experts is extensively trained to achieve outstanding results and provide you with the evidence you need:

Today it’s hard to imagine a world without video surveillance, smartphones, tablet, dashboard, and body cameras. Thousands of cameras capture our movements daily, making video an impartial witness. The ease of access to video recordings makes the medium highly relevant evidence in investigations. However, there are cases where camera settings, technique, and other factors affect the quality of the video recording, requiring further investigation to uncover the truth. 

With the errors in common cameras today, recordings can only help uncover the truth with the help of video forensic experts. The best option is to take advantage of an expert in video expertise to ensure that the recording contains helpful information for litigation. Experts must overcome several challenges in their work because even the simplest video can have significant problems, resulting in litigation issues. Law enforcement agencies and courts generally have few data playback tools making a specific format a must in litigation. 

Converting a video to the required format cannot be achieved by consulting Google or downloading a particular conversion software. Many surveillance systems have proprietary video formats without converter applications that are readily available and easy to use. Even if such conversion tools exist, they cannot guarantee that microscopic details will not be destroyed during the conversion. Therefore, an expert with video encoding and a video forensic team must perform this work to obtain an accurate result. 

Enlisting the help of experts is also critical when the video has been damaged or corrupted. A video forensics team can reconstruct the sequence of the fragmented video to show the truth behind the damaged video. 

Retrieving the information usually requires reviewing several cameras recording the same event. When playing back the recordings one after the other, it is much more challenging to match the details then analyzing them all simultaneously. To analyze simultaneously, the recordings must be synchronized and played back to show multiple angles of the incident. 

Expert collaboration is usually needed when a video is missing essential details: 

• Instability of the video due to being recorded with a portable video device.  
• Low image resolution caused by recording from a distance. 
• Blurred image because the camera’s focus or high speed of an object. 
• Dark images due to poor lighting conditions or light reflecting off the camera. 

In addition, camera characteristics such as the dimensions of the 360X250 frame may affect the quality. Considering these factors is impossible to guarantee a quality video in which the license plate of the car or the face of the offender can be seen.  

However, when it comes to forensic video enhancement, it is naive to expect the expert to perform a miracle, as in fictional crime shows. Still, on certain occasions, modern software can significantly enhance a video and get excellent results. 

Determining authenticity is a complex process that is done in two phases. In the first phase, the forensic expert must evaluate the video to see if it is original or a copy. The original video refers to the video being captured on the device during recording, and copy refers to the video file being copied to a different device than the one used during recording. In addition, copying can also refer to file format editing, resampling, and recompression. Only an expert in video encoding from different devices and editing can conclusively determine if the video is authentic.

The best way to determine the original video from the copy is by obtaining access to the same device as the analyzed video. Analysis of recompressed video raises a red flag for the video forensics expert, and recompression may indicate that the video has been altered or edited. However, viewing a recompressed video does not necessarily mean it is fabricated it might have been compressed for file size.

As a result, the most challenging part of the authenticity determination process is getting the remaining evidence of the video that has been altered. In some instances, simple, easily observable artifacts can serve as evidence. For example, an object suddenly appearing in a video or the rapid change in the hands to a new time can prove that the video is a fake.

Professional video forgery is not easily identifiable without the right tools, such as modern forensic software. This way, forensic experts can determine the video’s authenticity by analyzing various qualities of the video, such as format, reification, metadata file structure, and image verification in every ten or thousands of frames. Without performing this lengthy and tedious analysis, experts cannot be sure that the video’s authenticity.

Sometimes experts are presented with a new challenge of camera identification for both videos and photos. To achieve this identification, experts will record several dozen frames within a technological environment using a tested device. This sample is then reviewed by specialized software that isolates the camera fingerprint. The camera fingerprint is a fragment of the image that cannot be humanly visualized and remains the same in all pictures.

The sample camera print is then compared to images on original videos and photographs. The quality of the image determines the simplicity with which the forensic software discovers the camera prints. Poor image quality can even result in invalid data being printed. For this reason, experts must use advanced techniques to help identify a video/photo source with little to know fingerprint data.

The forensic expert’s input does not stop even after corroborating the video’s authenticity. The expert’s role in video enhancement is essential to ensure images depicted in a video stream are clearer. That is why it is essential to ensure that a specific vehicle is shown or even to demonstrate that the car’s make is within the investigation’s scope.

thousands of similar images. The features of the verifiable object are then compared with the parts

of the object that has been duplicated. The expert’s ability to detect the differences between objects

significantly impacts the video investigation.

Although spatial geometry is not always sufficient for all cases, modern computers can develop 3D models of geographical areas and objects. For forensic engineers, it is possible to determine several points with coordinates on video or images to create a true depth and measure of space.

An image can reveal the distance between objects, and a video can determine the time between events. Knowing space and time makes it easy to calculate the velocity. Cases determining fault following a vehicle accident usually require a speed calculation. The application of forensic knowledge and video methodologies allows the speed of objects to be determined under various conditions. These calculations can be made regardless of lighting, speed, or other video defects.