@inproceedings{1a8a1c8d6a2a4d71a99ec10df73a2a0f,
title = "Biologically-inspired pre-compression enhancement of video for forensic applications",
abstract = "Digital video is an increasingly common form of legal evidence. Visible artifacts caused by lossy compression raise questions of the validity and therefore admissibility of such evidence. Blockiness (caused by the loss of high frequency spatial information) and translation of artifacts (due to motion-based compression) are two major sources of distortion which can affect object shapes and therefore object recognition, such as that of alphanumeric characters. We propose a novel pre-compression video enhancement method inspired by the properties of Large Monopolar Cells (LMC) in insect visual systems. The integration of standard compression schemes and biologically-inspired video enhancement enables us to keep more semantic information at comparable data rates, thereby improving recognition rates. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and limitations of the proposed approach.",
keywords = "Biological vision system, Forensic evidence, Video compression artifact",
author = "Saman Poursoltan and Russell Brinkworth and Matthew Sorell",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1109/ICCSPA.2013.6487251",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781467328203",
series = "2013 1st International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing and Their Applications, ICCSPA 2013",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
pages = "1--6",
booktitle = "2013 1st International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing and Their Applications (ICCSPA)",
address = "United States",
note = "2013 1st International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing and Their Applications, ICCSPA 2013 ; Conference date: 12-02-2013 Through 14-02-2013",
}