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New training course available: BASIC FORENSIC MULTIMEDIA ANALYSIS WITH AMPED FIVE This is a practical course on Amped Five. Description: Basic Forensic Multimedia Analysis with Amped FIVE Professional Expectations and Goals: Graduates will acquire basic level training in the techniques and skills necessary to perform examinations, clarifications, and analyses on digital multimedia evidence

This just in from SWGDE: The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) is pleased to announce the posting of the following four new draft documents for public review and comment at https://www.swgde.org/ documents/Released%20For% 20Public%20Comment SWGDE Best Practices for the Recovery of Data from CCTV Digital Video Recorders (version 1.0) SWGDE Mac OS X Tech Notes (version 1.2)

Amped Software announced a big update today. Along with some bug fixes, this update includes batch conversion, fish eye correction, and a few other niceties. If your support contract is current, use the feature in the Help menu to check for the latest update. Enjoy.

Here's a cool page that interactively demonstrates and explains how image kernels work.

This just in from the BBC: "The revelation that police are holding a database of around 18 million mugshots has provoked an examination of the balance between civil liberties and catching criminals. But how effective is the technology? Not as good as many people think, according to the Metropolitan Police officer in charge of the force's central forensic image team. The system used by the force

I've been working on some videos to help folks working in image analysis - some special cases - working with Amped FIVE and a few other tools. Stay tuned. I'll post them here and over on my YouTube channel. If you have any special requests for techniques, or to highlight a particular tool/filter, let me know.