Photo analysis and tamper detection

• Detect tampered areas in images
• Determine the authenticity of images and documents
• Analyze multiple images with batch tools
• Identify the device used to take the photo
• A collection of the most powerful, real-world-application authentication filters and techniques based on science

What is Amped Autheticate?

Amped Authenticate is the leading forensic software for unveiling the processing history of a digital image. It provides a suite of powerful tools to determine whether an image is an unaltered original, an original generated by a specific device, or the result of manipulation using a photo editing software, making its admissibility as evidence questionable. Amped Authenticate is used by the world’s top forensic labs, law enforcement agencies, government, military, and security organizations.

Authenticate is a collection of the most useful, real-world-application authentication filters and techniques identified by image analysts, based on hundreds of scientific papers and studies. These have been built into an easy-to-use, yet amazingly powerful interface to help investigators answer the many questions of authenticity and integrity surrounding today's digital images.

Why is Amped Autheticate?

With the constant development and introduction of new digital technologies, digital images are now key sources of evidence for investigations. And thanks to social media and the prevalence of highquality mobile phone cameras, there is a dramatic increase of images submitted as evidence, by citizens and witnesses, to law enforcement agencies.

Modern digital images are mines of information: in addition to the visual content, metadata often contain precise information about when, where and who captured the image. But unfortunately, in just a few seconds, both visual content and metadata can now be easily manipulated to create credible fakes.

Without solid ways to validate that the information is accurate, these photographs could pose issues when they are presented as evidence in a case and in court. Therefore, thoroughly investigating an image and ensuring its trustworthiness and source is critical in today’s investigations

It is also necessary to be able to link photographs to a specific camera and consequently to a suspect. Billions of images are uploaded to the internet and shared on social media platforms every day. Investigators are constantly faced with the task of trying to identify the person who posted the original photo on the internet. Linking a photo to a camera is now as important as linking a bullet to a gun

The difficult way of working

Understanding if an image is an original or the result of manipulation is not an easy task. Only a few world-recognized experts were able to determine if an image used as evidence in court was an original or if someone tampered with it, making the photo unacceptable as evidence or alibi. Experts previously had to do this with self-made tools, very specialized scientific techniques, or a cobbledtogether set of very expensive mathematical/engineering tools.

The easy way of working

In order to permit more investigators and forensic labs to analyze the processing history of photos, Amped Software has integrated into one single software package, forensically accepted techniques that were previously only available to top-notch researchers.

Amped Authenticate empowers law enforcement agencies and forensic lab experts with very effective tools to identify tampering on an image and to verify if a digital photograph has been generated by a specific device. The camera ballistics feature in Amped Authenticate determines that a specific device - and not just the camera make or model – was used to generate a specific photo

As opposed to other solutions that provide only one, or just a few, tools for authenticating images, Amped Authenticate puts the power of multiple scientific tools, procedures, and reporting, in one software package to improve the user's ability to detect tampered images or determine originality.

All tools available in Amped Authenticate are based on peer reviewed scientific papers, each performing a different test on the structure of an image and how it was created.

Main Features

• World Leader: Amped Authenticate is the leading software for forensic image authentication and tamper detection on digital images. Used by the world’s top forensic labs, law enforcement, government, military, and security organizations, Amped Authenticate is the most complete image forensics suite. Amped partners with universities and research groups to remain constantly up to date with scientific achievements, in order to fill the gap, as quickly as possible, between the research lab and usage in real cases.

• Powerful: Amped Authenticate provides more than 40 tools and filters with customizable configuration and optional post-processing parameters.

• Portable: Works on a laptop in the field as easily as on a desktop in the lab

• Fast: Amped Authenticate’s Batch Processing applies all filters to all images in a folder. Smart Report automatically selects the most appropriate subset of filters for each image, providing brief and readable reporting. Saved cache folders allow for speedy follow-up analysis.

• Ballistics: Image ballistic tools allow you to verify which camera was used to shoot a specific photo, even if the photo has been scaled, cropped or re-saved. Experiments demonstrate that image ballistics can also work with images uploaded to social media platforms.

• Comparison: Compare the results of two images side by side to understand where and how an image has been modified.

• Integrations: Amped Authenticate is integrated with some of the leading tools used by many law enforcement organizations: Griffeye Analize DI, CameraForensics, Microsoft Excel, Google Maps, Google Images, Flickr. Integrations increase speed and accuracy of your work. Thanks to Authenticate’s command line interface, users are also free to write their own integrations to link Authenticate to other tools.

• Certifies Evidence: Amped Authenticate automatically generates a report detailing all the bookmarked analyses, along with comments, settings and algorithms used, as well as their source information (including publication date and page number), which makes it easy to present in court. The report layout and theme can be customized)

• Flexible and Affordable: Since Amped Authenticate is compatible with standard PCs (Windows 7/8/10/11, 32 bit and 64 bit versions), the time and cost to deploy are minimal. As hardware standards change quickly, Amped Authenticate does not bind you to a platform that will soon be obsolete or cannot be upgraded without major expense (if at all). All required dependencies are installed during program setup, without any need for expensive external tools or environments.