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Mar 2 - The Providence
Business News recently featured a piece on Michael Black’s work on
advanced forensic video analysis. Last year, Michael contacted Rhode
Island State Police Lt. Dennis Pincince, who leads the Criminal
Investigations Unit, about working together. The pair received a
collaborative research grant from the R.I. Science and Technology
Advisory Council which paid for department researcher Alex Weiss and
another student to work full time on advanced video forensics at state
police headquarters in Scituate last summer.
Pincince said the collaboration was “particularly valuable because law enforcement officials have been using surveillance video more since the Sept. 11 attacks. Although image-enhancement products are available commercially, the price is often prohibitive for police departments.” Plus, he said, “the stuff they’re working on at Brown is by far the
best stuff I’ve seen out there.”
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