Recovering Otherewise Unusable Images?

This article is based on an hour long at this link, it shows the actual footage referred in which the murderer is caught on an ATM camera drawing funds with the victim next to him under a blanket on the passenger seat. Kind of a chilling scene.

The main issue he talks about is compression but there's some interesting discussion on other things they can do with video, both analog and IP. One thing is pretty obvious, that video is going to play a much bigger role in the future and like so much in forensic science, we'll see the development of newer technologies that'll bring in a lot of change.

One of the sponsors is and analytics company that does a lot of work for the govt.. Loading a they do a lot of things other analytics do but probably have some other capabilities that might set them apart.

Storage is changing a lot as drive sizes increase and bit error rate becomes a bigger issue, the cost per bit is dropping real fast too and tiering raises the possibility of storing uncompressed files for a time on one type of storage before moving them to lower tier or archive, if this happens with video then forensics will play an even bigger role and overcome the compression issue.

The other limitation on storing uncompressed video is bandwidth but that's increasing and coming down in price too. There are other issues, such as data corruption, outages and just managing enormous data bases but they are also being addressed. A lot of video is stuff people take on their phones and want to share, it's the same type of file with the same quality issues and the technology used here will spill over to other video. Hah! That sounds like an unintentional ad for video forensics.

The video also talks about LEVA, which has a video forensics certification. The program is based at the University of Indiana. It's a law enforcement program but might be open to individuals who are not in law enforcement.

Paul