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1 SOLUTION Forensic Video Analysis

2 Example of interlaced video footage Video footage de-interlaced with Video Analyst

Poor lighting denies officers the clear look they need, and pulling a clean still image can be next to impossible. Not anymore.

3 Discover what you can uncover In a world full of surveillance cameras, catching a crime on video isn t much of a problem. For law enforcement, the real challenge is analyzing the video that is captured. Often, the video is multiplexed beyond the average system s capabilities. Poor lighting denies officers the clear look they need, and pulling a clean still image can be next to impossible. Not anymore. The technology for video enhancement and analysis has been taken to a whole new level of clarity, user-friendliness, versatility, and affordability with Intergraph s Video Analyst. Video Analyst offers law enforcement and security personnel an incredibly rich suite of tools featuring Intergraph s unparalleled Image Registration technology to capture, analyze, and edit all types of videos with unprecedented detail and clarity. In fact, Video Analyst is compatible with analog and digital video-capture technologies, allowing it to not only translate any format but to reveal the images it presents in much greater detail. Video Analyst offers another critical advantage: it s the easiest to learn and use. Running on the Microsoft Windows operating system and built on commercial off-the-shelf video editing software Adobe Premiere, you can be up and running Video Analyst in as little as a few hours. So whether it s for law enforcement, security, or general surveillance applications, when you need to clarify evidence, Video Analyst gives you the absolute cutting edge of excellence you need without cutting deeply into your budget. 1

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA A man was murdered in his home during a robbery. Numerous witnesses described the clothing that the suspected robber was wearing, but not the individual.

Prosecutors needed to connect one of the suspects to the identified clothing on the night of the murder.

Surveillance cameras at the store captured the suspects on tape, but the images were of poor quality and too dark to make a positive identification.

4 Charlotte, North Carolina, USA A man was murdered in his home during a robbery. Numerous witnesses described the clothing that the suspected robber was wearing, but not the individual. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested several suspects, but questions still persisted about who killed the victim and who was wearing which clothing. Prosecutors needed to connect one of the suspects to the identified clothing on the night of the murder. During the investigation, it was determined that the suspects were in a nearby convenience store an hour before the murder took place. Surveillance cameras at the store captured the suspects on tape, but the images were of poor quality and too dark to make a positive identification. Using Intergraph s Video Analyst System the images were deinterlaced, magnified, and brightened, clearly revealing the identified clothing and the suspect. BEFORE Video Analyst Enhancement and Brightening Without this [video] evidence, we would not have been able to identify the triggerman. Detective Joel McNelly Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department 2 AFTER Video Analyst Enhancement and Brightening

5 Superior technology Video Analyst is the only technology of its kind to offer Intergraph s precise registration tool VARegister. This tool gives you crime-solving advantages in image clarity and stabilization (as close as 0.2 pixels) that are simply unmatched anywhere. In addition, we ve engineered Video Analyst to let you enhance and edit without disturbing the original footage. Video Analyst achieves this superior performance with an impressive list of features more than any other system on the market. They include: Uncompressed video support (ITU-R-601 compliant) Intuitive drag-and-drop tools Demultiplexing an unlimited number of cameras at once Deinterlacing Resizing Brightening Frame averaging Pixel-to-pixel comparison Edge detection Audio noise filter Plus much more And Video Analyst comes with the kind of reassuring customer service and extensive warranty that guarantees your complete satisfaction and peace of mind after your purchase. GET ONE-SOURCE SIMPLICITY We ve carefully developed Video Analyst to be more than the leading video enhancement technology; we ve also made it your complete, one-stop turnkey solution. That s why we offer both the software and hardware, plus unequaled customer service available 24/7 for your convenience. In addition, we also offer intensive training, in your office or ours, to help you hit the ground running. THREE CONFIGURATIONS TO MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS Intergraph s Video Analyst offers a range of full-featured capabilities, with multiple system configurations to meet your needs and budget. The Video Analyst Separate Real Time supports multiplex video systems. This configuration allows separation of individual cameras from a live source, saving out individual files into.avi format. It also generates still-frame images from a video source, enlarging an image and rearranging the order of camera feeds as needed. The Video Analyst Tool Set lets you enhance poor-quality video with a powerful set of forensic video tools, including brightening, frame averaging, color tracking, and field-to-frame conversion, plus many additional tools. Video Analyst can demultiplex an unlimited number of cameras to uncover hidden evidence. The Video Analyst Tool Set with Prior to the Intergraph [Video Analyst] System, I would say that 80 percent of the tapes that we would get we would not be able to use had it not been for the Intergraph enhancement system. Detective Gary Chapman Boynton Beach, Florida, Police Department 3

6 Intergraph s registration technology allows for the full spectrum of video processing, enhancement, and analysis. Image clarification routines produce greater degrees of contrast. This allows easier identification of objects and text from the background. All of these tools run on commercially available hardware running the Microsoft Windows XP operating system and Adobe Premiere. Intergraph will work with you to provide a complete turnkey system for your video analysis needs at a fraction of what competitors charge. FROM THE COMPANY THAT S LEADING THE WAY Intergraph is an industry leader in forensic technology solutions. For more than a quarter century, we ve been engineering groundbreaking technologies for law enforcement agencies all around the world. Our products and our people are constantly developing new ways to help you get better information faster, in a form that s easier to read or interpret, and using technology that s easily adaptable to your current infrastructure. In addition, we re always striving to make our sophisticated technologies easier to learn for quicker adoption by your agency personnel. In fact, Video Analyst is the enhancement technology used by the FBI, CIA, Army Crime Lab, Air Force OSI, and law enforcement departments all around the world. Let us help you gain actionable information from your critical video assets.

7 About intergraph Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer, and smarter. The company s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world. Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation, and data management of plants, ships, and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is an independent subsidiary for SG&I s U.S. federal and classified business. Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB, (Nordic exchange: HEXA B) and (Swiss exchange: HEXN). For more information, visit and 5

8 Intergraph Corporation. All rights reserved. Intergraph, the Intergraph logo, and Video Analyst are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other products and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. PSF-US-0076A-ENG 2/11

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