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The
following material represents expert witness information regarding TREC's Video Image
Enhancement & Analysts, Chief Scientist and Forensic Video Image Enhancement
& Analysis technology. Curriculum
vitae are included with references to court cases for TREC's staff of analysts. A workshop
abstract outlining Forensic Video Image Enhancement & Analysis is included
along with a listing of Talks, Presentations, Workshops, Television Programs
presented by TREC over the past
years in the area of Forensic Video Image Enhancement & Analysis and TREC's history in this field.
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This report is prepared following
the guidelines of the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM), Standard Practice for
Reporting Opinions of Technical Experts,
Designation E-620-85, under the jurisdiction of
ASTM Committee E-30 on Forensic Sciences, Subcommittee E30-40 Technical Aspects of
Products Liability Litigation. |
Thomas
R. Edwards, Ph.D. Physics - Chief Scientist
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R. Edwards is the Chief Scientist, current President, co-founder of TREC, and developer of
Forensic Video Image Analysis SPvI Workstations
using TRECWare TM. He has developed and
implemented analytical techniques for digital image processing and related two dimensional
data analysis for over 20 years in aerospace and medical instrumentation. He has
worked as a research scientist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
holds two patents related to digital data processing and has held consulting appointments
with the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, the St. Joseph
Hospital, Denver, CO, the Veterans Administration Hospital, Birmingham, AL, the US
Department of Agriculture, Auburn, AL, and the US Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal,
AL. His major research goals are all related to improved image analysis
techniques. Dr. Edwards has been developing the theory and application of Two
Dimensional Convolute Integers for digital image processing for the past 20 years.
He has also held appointments as Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics and Adjunct
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the Athens
State University, respectively. |
Expert opinion in
Forensic Video Image Enhancement & Analysis has been rendered in both criminal
and civil matters in multiple jurisdictions including Florida, Alabama, Georgia,
Tennessee, New York, Louisiana, Colorado, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Missouri, and North Dakota.
Dr. Edwards has testified against the Federal Government, for and against the
State on behalf of the Plaintiff or the Defendant in prior civil and
criminal cases.
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Education:
McNeese State College, Lake Charles, LA,
1954-56
Pennsylvania State University, State College,
Bachelor of Science, Physics, 1958
Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, PA, 1958-60
State University of New York at Buffalo, NY,
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, 1966
Past Honors:
Post-Doctoral Appointment National Academy
of Science
Honorarium Publication Instrument & Control Systems
Invited Speaker 34th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical
Chemistry and Spectroscopy
Invited Speaker South Dakota Academy of Science
Invited Speaker Annual Meeting Colorado Public
Defenders, 1995
Invited Speaker FBI Seminar on Digital Imaging May, 1997
Patents:
U.S. # 3949206, Filtering Device (with H.
Zeanah)
U.S. # 4528639, Interstitial Point Generator
Work Experience
TREC, Huntsville, AL June, 1984 to Present,
Chief Scientist-Co-founder and developer of Forensic Video Image Analysis technology on SPvI
Workstations using TRECWare™
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Space Sciences Laboratory,
Huntsville, AL, 1966 to 1984
In House Training
AF-OSI - Air Force Office of Special
Investigations,
Boling Air Force Base, 1994
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, 1994
IRS National Forensic Laboratory, 1995
Illinois State Police, 1994
Reconnaissance and Interdiction Detachment, Alabama National Guard, 1995
117 Intelligence Squadron, Alabama Air National Guard, '95
South Carolina Law Enforcement Department, 1995
Internal Revenue Service-Inspection, 1996, 1997
Houston Police Department 1996
On Site Training
U.S. Postal Inspection Service, '93, '94,
'95, '96, '97
Houston Police Department, 1995
U. S. Customs Inspection Service, November 1995
South Carolina Law Enforcement Department, 1995
Internal Revenue Service-Inspection, 1996, 1997
Presentations,
Workshops, Seminars and Television Programs
As Forensic
Video Image Analysis has emerged, Edwards has presented lectures on the subject to the
following (partial list) over the past several years
ASIS Utilities Committee Annual Meeting,
1994
ASIS North Alabama Chapter, 1994
National Technical Investigators Association, NATIA
Annual
Conferences, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2008
Regional
meetings
Pacific Coast once
SouthEast twice
Mid States once
InterMountain twice
Imaging Science and Technology Conferences, 1993, 1995
Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association,
AFCEA, '93,
'94
Huntsville area Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs Huntsville, Al, 1993
Dothan Police Department, Dothan, AL 1994
Regional Organized Crime Information Center, ROCIC, 93,94,95,96
Various Narcotic Association Regional Meetings, 94, 95, 96
Colorado Public Defender Annual Meeting, 1995
Texas Women in Law Enforcement, 1994
LEVA, Law Enforcement Video Association, Baltimore, MD 1994
LETN 30 minute special on "Front Line";
Law Enforcement
Television Network,1994
FBI, DEA, US Postal Inspection Service, US Customs, US
Marshall’s, US Capitol Police, Washington, DC, area and
regional locations around the
country
US Army Night Vision Laboratory, Fort Belvoir, VA
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Decatur, GA
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Nashville, TN , 1994
Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Tallahassee, FL
Illinois State Forensic Laboratory, Huntsville, AL 1995
US Air Force Office of Special Investigations, USAF-OSI- Bolling
National Institute of Justice Hdq and TAPIC, DC 1994
Joint Meeting Midwestern and Southern Association of
Forensic
Scientists, ‘95,’97
Oak Ridge National Laboratories Special Projects Office Dec ’95
American Academy of Forensic Science, Annual Meeting
Nashville, 96
American Society of Industrial Security Annual Conference,
Atlanta '96, St. Louis '97
International Association of Optical Engineers, SPIE, Boston, Nov '96
Federal Bureau of Investigation Seminar on Digital Imaging
Las Vegas, May
1997
International Association of Identification
Georgia State Div, Jekyll Is. ‘97,
Carrollton 2009
Annual Meeting Louisville Ky 2008
Colorado Auto Theft Investigators, Canyon City CO 1999
Roundtable Investigators, Virginia Beach, VA 1999
Audio Engineering Society of America, New York City 1999
National Child Advocacy Center,
Huntsville, AL, March 2000
The New York Institute
of Forensic Audio, Feb 2000
American Association of Industrial Security Volume IV
Security Business Practices Reference, Investigations; May, 2001
Associations:
American Association of Industrial Security
(ASIS)
Member - 1994-Present
American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
Provisional Member - 1996
National Technical Investigators Association (NATIA) -
Lecturer - 1994-Present
American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)
Member - 1996
Law Enforcement Video Association (LEVA)
Member - 1994-Present
Regional Organized Crime Information Center (ROCIC) -
Lecturer - 1996
Southeast Regional Narcotics Associations
Lecturer - 1995-Present
Midwestern and Southern Association of Forensic Scientists-
Lecturer - 1996, 1997
International Association for Identification, 2008
Dominique Joanna
Edwards, BS Mathematics - Video Analyst
Education
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Minor: Business Administration Major GPA: 3.4/4
Currently Enrolled in Master of Science Degree Program
in the School of Electrical and Engineering
Upper Level Math Coursework
Graduate Partial Differential Equations,
Graduate Statistics and Probability for Engineers,
Differential Equations, Numerical
Analysis, Probability,
Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Math Modeling
Computer
Skills
Windows, DOS, TRECWareTM and associated programs
Work Experience
TREC,
Huntsville, Alabama, June, 1992 to Present ,Video Analyst - Over the past years, crime scene video
taped cases have been analyzed, enhanced and prepared for court room presentation.
Presentations on
Forensic Video Image Analysis:
Alabama Narcotics Officers Association,
Anniston, AL, '94
Georgia Department of Public Safety, Warner Robins, GA ,'94
Women in Federal Law Enforcement Annual Conference, June
'95 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington
DC, » 2000 attendees
Alabama Banker’s Association, Montgomery, AL, October '95
Trainer of SPvI
Workstation’s for Forensic Video Image Analysis:
U.S. Postal Inspection Service
Forensic and Technical Services Division
'93, '94, '95
South Carolina Law Enforcement Department (SLED), '95
U.S. Custom’s Inspection Service, July, 1995
Workshops and
Demonstrations:
Georgia Bureau of Investigations, Decatur,
GA '94
National Technical Investigators Association,
Nashville, TN, '93, '94,
Reno, NV, '95, Orlando, FL '96
Georgia Public Safety Training Center, Warner Robbins, GA, '94
Southeast Technical Investigators Association,
Birmingham, AL, 93, Myrtle
Beach, SC, '94
Texas Women in Law Enforcement, Dallas, TX, '94
Alabama Narcotics Officers Association, Anniston, AL, '94
Mid States National Technical Investigators Association,
Topeka, KS,'95
Regional Organized Crime Information Center,
Biloxi, MS, '94, Austin, TX,
'95, Nashville, TN '96
In House Training
AF OSI - Air Force Office of Special
Investigations, '94
Tennessee Bureau of Investigations, '94
IRS National Forensic Laboratory, '95
Illinois State Forensic Laboratory, '95
Abstract
Session Title |
Forensic Video Image Analysis |
Author |
Thomas R. Edwards |
Company |
TREC |
Address |
5008
Colemont Lane NE |
City,
State, Zip |
Huntsville, AL
35811 |
Office |
(256)
859 7385 |
| Cell |
(256) 694 2034 |
Fax |
(256)
417 6337 |
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e-mail
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trec@trec.com |
Forensic
video image analysis bridges the relationship between video image processing, law enforcement,
industrial security and the courts. The results from applying forensic video image
analysis technology to poor quality video recorded crimes will be discussed and
illustrated in a series of 35 mm slides.
VCR
tapes suffer noise, low light level environments, motion blur, and time base
synchronization problems. Perpetrators are too small for identification and four camera
scenes are compressed to a single frame, quad format. All these situations have been
successfully resolved by forensic image processing techniques. Actual crime scene results
highlighting one or more of the specific problems and the associated solution will be
presented by the 35 mm slides, side by side for comparisons.
Low
light levels will be brightened. Small size regions containing the perpetrator will be
magnified times two and times four with optical like clarity. Motion blur and time
base distortions will be removed. Quad camera images in a single frame will be magnified
to full camera views. Fields will be enlarged to frames. The same technique will
remove perpetrator motion blur. License plate alphanumeric will be magnified and enhanced
for legibility. Resolution enhancement and magnification times eight will be applied
to actual cases. Ghost perpetrators resulting from field recorded, frame
playback VCRs will be resolved.
A
number of lessons will be presented ranging from tape copy problems, video signal color
burst distortions, VCR playback azimuth matching, to cost effective hardcopy versus court
room hardcopy. Video tape authenticity will also be presented from TREC’s approach
towards this court room requirement.
Court Cases: 1995 to Present
Expert Witness Testimony and Depositions
Thomas R. Edwards
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November,
1995
In the Matter of the State of Alabama
vs. John Hardy and Ulysses Sneed
Morgan County District Attorney's Office
Mr. Bob Burrell and Mr. Paul Mathews
Voice [01](205) 351 4610
Fax ([01](205) 351 4607 |
December,
1995
In the Matter of the State of Florida
vs. Alexander Henry Suarez
Ms. Samantha Ruiz and Mr. Jay Novick
State Attorney's Office/Dade Co.
Business [01](305)547 0344
Fax [01](305)547 0330 |
March
1996
In the Matter of the State of Florida
vs. Alexander Henry Suarez
Ms. Samantha Ruiz and Mr. Jay Novick
State Attorney's Office/Dade Co.
Business [01](305)547 0344
Fax [01](305)547 0330 |
December
1996
In the Matter of the State of Florida
vs. Ignacio Perea
Ms. Samantha Ruiz & Mr. Jay Novick
State Attorney’s Office/Dade Co. Miami
Business [01](305) 547 0344
Fax [01](305) 547 0330 |
November
1996
In the Matter of State of Florida
vs. Alexander Henry Suarez
Ms. Samantha Ruiz and Mr. Jay Novick
State Attorney’s Office/Dade Co. Miami
Business [01](305) 547 0344
Fax [01](305) 547 0330 |
March
1997
In the Matter of the State of Florida
vs. Roger Dolan
Mr. Jim Wells/Broward County PD
Public Defender/Ft/Lauderdale
Business [01](954) 831 8809
Fax [01[(954) 831 6778 |
April
1997 Civil
In the Matter of David Webb et all
vs. U.A.W. and Local 947
Mr. David Baillie, Defendant’s Attorney-
Thomas Mamer & Haughey
Carbondale, IL
Business [01](217) 351 1500
Fax [01](217) 351 2017 |
July
1997
In the Matter of the State of Florida
vs. Roger Dolar
Mr. Dennis Siegel/Assistant State Attorney
Broward County Courthouse
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Business [01](954) 831 8809
Fax [01](954) 831 6778 |
January
1998
In the Matter of the State of Tennessee
vs. William McCarver
Mr. J. Michael Taylor/District Attorney General
Sequatchie County Courthouse Dunlap, TN
Business [01](423) 775 4598
Fax [01](423) 775 27805 |
August 1998
In the Matter of the State of Georgia vs. Armstrong et al
Mr. Thomas West
Business [01](706)653 4336
Fax [01](706)653 4345 |
September
1998
In the Matter of the State of Colorado
vs. Lisa Moore
Ms. Dana M.Casper Office of the State Public Defender
Englewood, CO 80112
Business [01] (303) 799 9001
Fax [01] (303) 792 0822 |
November 1998 Civil
In the Matter of Gretta King vs. Four Seasons Hotel
Boston, MA
Mr. Edwin F Landers, Jr
Morrison, Mahoney and Miller
Business [01] (617) 439 7583
Fax [01] (617) 439 7590 |
June 1999
In the Matter of the State of New Hampshire
vs. Peter Dugas
Ms. Brenda LaPoint
Hillsborough County Attorney's Office
30 Spring Street
Nashua, NH 03061
Business [01] (603) 594-3250
Fax [01] (603) 594-3254 |
June 1999
In the Matter of the State of New Hampshire vs. Peter Dugas
Ms. Brenda LaPoint
Hillsborough County Attorney's Office
30 Spring Street
Nashua, NH 03061
Business [01] (603) 594-3250
Fax [01] (603) 594-3254 |
October, 2000 Civil Federal
In the Matter of Ruffin vs. Fuller
Jonathan Evan Goldberg
Davis, Polk and Wardwell
450 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Business 1 [01] (212) 450-4000 |
February,
2002 Civil State
In the Matter of
the City of Huntsville, AL vs.
Gene Groves
Mr. Robert Tuten
Attorney at Law ad hoc for the city
223 East Side Square
Huntsville, AL 35801
Business [01] (256) 536-6009 |
April,
2002 Criminal State
In the Matter of
the State of Tennessee vs. Robert Evans
Mr. Jerry Kitchen
Assistant Attorney General
201 Poplar Ave.
Memphis, TN 38103
Business [01] (901) 545-5924 |
July
24, 2003 Criminal State
In the Matter of the State of Louisiana vs Terry Martinez
Mr. Chris Riviere
Mr. Phillip Spence
Houma, LA |
March, 2004 Criminal State
In the Matter of the State of Louisiana vs
Terry Martinez
Mr. Michael Ellis Houston, TX
Thibodaux, LA
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September 8, 2007 Criminal State
In the Matter of the State of North Dakota vs
Moe Gibbs Bismarck, ND
Jeff Bredahl, Dennis Fisher
Fargo, ND |
October, 2007 Civil State
In the Matter of the State of Florida vs Baker
Scott Rath Assistant State Attorney
Ft. Lauderdale, FL |
May 2008 Criminal State
In the Matter of the State of Mass vs William
Santos
Mrs. Eileen Agnes
Lowell, MA |
January,
2010, Criminal-Federal
In
the Matter of Debroah Masten vs US Government
Aaron
Smith Attorney
St.
Louis, Missouri
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August,
2010 Criminal State
In
the Matter of Jeffrey Stovall vs the State of Georgia
Eric
Eberhardt Attorney
Athens,
Georgia |
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SPvI Workstation Sites
(Sites of TREC’s Forensic Video Image Analysis Technology)
U. S. Postal Inspection Service-National Forensic Laboratory
(3rd
unit installation 2005)
FBI-Engineering Research Facility (technology only)
U. S. Customs Inspection Service (2nd unit installation late 96)
Internal Revenue Service Inspection
Houston Police Department Identification Division
South Carolina Law Enforcement Department
Miami Metro-Dade County Police Department (August ’96)
New York State Police Academy (Feb, 1999)
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