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Erik is currently working for Harding Security in Charlottesville, VA as a contract Latent Print Examiner. He has 22 years of experience working in law enforcement and was one of a handful of pioneers who helped to bring about the acceptance of digital image processing by the legal community in the United States. Erik has designed many of the tools and concepts used by law enforcement agencies, in both the US and Canada, to track image integrity and enhance latent fingerprint images. He also designed the first user-friendly FFT plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and a third party interface for transferring fingerprint images directly into many of the major Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS).
Erik has been using digital cameras and image processing for case work since 1995. He has testified in two successful Frye hearings, including Eric Hayden vs State of Washington, the first Appellate case in the US to recognize and approve the use of digital enhancement for latent fingerprint evidence. Erik continues his search for better and more efficient ways to acquire, maintain and distribute law enforcement imagery.
Ransdell and Brown, Inc, and others, have generously supported Authentegrity by providing programming skills and some useful tools in order to assist those who must cope with the unique issues surrounding the use of digital cameras for visually recording evidence. Crime isn't glamorous; it impacts the lives of people from all walks of life, and it costs victims billions of dollars every year. Authentegrity doesn't propose to solve crime, but we do hope to provide those who do with some of the tools and methods for designing secure, inexpensive and user friendly workflows for tracking and storing photographic evidence.
Authentegrity won't offer dubious image databases, utilizing proprietary or otherwise secret methods for proving the integrity of digital images. Our products will be based upon proven, and open standards, vetted by both government and private experts.
If you find the information presented useful, or have suggestions for improvement, please let us know.
Erik has been using digital cameras and image processing for case work since 1995. He has testified in two successful Frye hearings, including Eric Hayden vs State of Washington, the first Appellate case in the US to recognize and approve the use of digital enhancement for latent fingerprint evidence. Erik continues his search for better and more efficient ways to acquire, maintain and distribute law enforcement imagery.
Ransdell and Brown, Inc, and others, have generously supported Authentegrity by providing programming skills and some useful tools in order to assist those who must cope with the unique issues surrounding the use of digital cameras for visually recording evidence. Crime isn't glamorous; it impacts the lives of people from all walks of life, and it costs victims billions of dollars every year. Authentegrity doesn't propose to solve crime, but we do hope to provide those who do with some of the tools and methods for designing secure, inexpensive and user friendly workflows for tracking and storing photographic evidence.
Authentegrity won't offer dubious image databases, utilizing proprietary or otherwise secret methods for proving the integrity of digital images. Our products will be based upon proven, and open standards, vetted by both government and private experts.
If you find the information presented useful, or have suggestions for improvement, please let us know.
Erik Berg
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Erik Berg has been using and teaching the techniques and methods of field collection and biometric identification for more than 22 years. Most recently with Harding Security. Erik returned from Iraq at the end of April, 2008, working to identify terrorists.
Authentegrity is located in Charlottesville, VA, and was created by Erik Berg in 2005 to provide the law enforcement community and others with information, and inexpensive or free alternatives to the proprietary image database systems currently being offered by a number of vendors catering to the law enforcement community.
The biometrics field has been experiencing an amazing rate of growth the past couple of years. This expansion is being driven by a need to identify terrorists, but much of the technology and software is based upon discoveries made during the NASA Space Program of the 1960's. The ability to record a fingerprint as a series of numbers, which can then be converted to electronic signals that can be transmitted at the speed of light, anywhere on the planet, is the basis for a powerful weapon against anonymity, and in turn global terrorism. The integrity of those fingerprint images, and others, must be established and safeguarded in order to ensure the information these images represent is reliable. Authentegrity can help.
The biometrics field has been experiencing an amazing rate of growth the past couple of years. This expansion is being driven by a need to identify terrorists, but much of the technology and software is based upon discoveries made during the NASA Space Program of the 1960's. The ability to record a fingerprint as a series of numbers, which can then be converted to electronic signals that can be transmitted at the speed of light, anywhere on the planet, is the basis for a powerful weapon against anonymity, and in turn global terrorism. The integrity of those fingerprint images, and others, must be established and safeguarded in order to ensure the information these images represent is reliable. Authentegrity can help.
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