Enhancement of Degraded CCTV Footage for Forensic Analysis

Forensic analysis has proved to be one of the most utilitarian tool in investigating crime. Forensic analysis provides evidence/basic information of the said crime through analysis of physical evidence. In this paper, we present a scintillating technique to enhance the image quality of CCTV video to assist in the investigation of criminal cases. This paper, address the issue of lack of a budget surplus for a high-quality image/video capturing device. The problem of enhancing images is addressed by pure image processing methods and machine learning techniques. The paper analyzes both techniques and further concludes that the machine learning approach produces a more efficient result. The applications of this technique can range from simple image filtering/beautification to forensic image processing.