Enhanced Video Technology Will Aid Crime and Terror Investigations
Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky is a researcher at Tel Aviv University. (Credit: AFTAU)
It’s a frequent scene in television crime dramas: Clever police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist. But in real life, enhancing this low-quality video to focus in on important clues hasn’t been an easy task. Until now.
Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky of Tel Aviv University and his colleagues have developed a new video “perfection tool” to help investigators enhance raw video images and identify suspects. Commissioned by a defense-related company to improve what the naked eye cannot see, the tool can be used with live video or with recordings, in color or black-and-white.
“This enhancement of resolution can be a critical factor in locating terrorists or identifying criminal suspects,” says Prof. Yaroslavsky. His team’s findings were recently published in Optical Letters and the Journal of Real Time Image Processing. (more…)
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