Amped Software training courses provide hands-on training on the use of Amped Software products as well as provide insight into the challenges users face in forensic video and digital multimedia evidence processing. Our courses are delivered worldwide by experienced instructors, in person or live online, in groups with users from multiple organizations or in private organization-specific sessions.
The purpose of the Amped Software training is to:
FORENSIC IMAGE AND VIDEO ENHANCEMENT
ADVANCED IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS
PHOTO ANALYSIS AND TAMPERING DETECTION
INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO EVIDENCE FOR INVESTIGATORS
"I would highly recommend this course to anyone in the digital forensics field who is in need of enhancing image and video footage."
The course is a mixture of lecture and hands-on with many practical exercises to solve cases using Amped FIVE. Besides showing how to use the software, we will cover the basics of image and video generation, processing, and enhancement, with a focus on surveillance footage. We will also highlight the most common pitfalls that users may encounter in their casework.
Due to the speed of development at Amped Software, it has been identified that within 12 - 18 months, a user may require a 'top up' to their training. During this refresher course, we'll look at advanced techniques and concepts for some of the original filters, such as Aspect Ratio Correction and Photogrammetry. We will also cover the advanced use of Presentation filters to deliver compelling results. The course is designed on a modular system, allowing a bespoke personalized schedule dependent on when the original training was received.
The course is a mixture of lecture and hands-on. After presenting the concepts of integrity and authenticity, the course explains the image generation pipeline and how artifacts are introduced during generation and manipulation of imagery. Then, it shows how Amped Authenticate builds on such artifacts to unveil the processing history of images and videos; this includes analyzing the integrity, the authenticity, and the source device of the examined content.
The course is a mixture of lectures and hands-on with practical or simulated cases using Amped Replay. We will focus on implementing a firm legal process for using and reporting on image and video evidence in daily investigations. This course has the purpose to provide students with the theory and the basics of image processing, understand the issues affecting images and videos in an investigative context and deliver in-depth knowledge of all software features to solve those issues, including the technical and scientific background behind the implemented techniques.