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Casino Tours
Casinos have a vested interest in protecting assets and maintaining the integrity of the gaming industry. With such a mandate it is no wonder they have some of the best and most expansive surveillance technologies available. On Tuesday, August 17, 2010, DSI-Vegas will take a limited number of attendees to a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the top casino's surveillance operations. Some of our participating casinos include: Mandalay Bay, Palms Casino, and Caesars Palace. To reserve a casino tour, register today for the conference and add this option during the registration process. Remember, there is currently no additional charge for tours or workshops at DSI-Vegas.
Flash Retriever Workshop
Forensic professionals are working too hard if they are relying on conventional hard disk oriented forensic tools for flash-based media. Sure, it is possible to recover files using the unallocated space and a data carving tool. Absolutely, with a hex sector display you can stitch together a file from the FAT table by hand. But in today's world almost any case is going to have some kind of flash-based media: USB thumb drive, camera card, phone card, MP3 player, etc.

Flash Retriever Forensic Edition is a professional tool for examining, recovering and documenting flash-based media. In this 1/2 - day workshop learn how to use Flash Retriever Forensic Edition for examining and recovering media files from flash-based media.
CD/DVD Inspector Workshop
What do you do with a mountain of CDs and DVDs for forensic examination? Use professional software for intensive analysis and extraction of data that's what! From CD-R, CD-RW and all types of DVD media - including HD DVD and Blu-Ray, CD/DVD Inspector is the one tool that can handle it all. This 1/2 - day workshop on the use of CD/DVD Inspector for forensic analysis and extraction of data from optical media is tailored for professionals in data recovery, forensics, and law enforcement.
Color Correction Techniques in Adobe Photoshop
The flyer says to be on the lookout for a blue pick up truck. But what if the truck isn't blue? What if the color in the image, on which the report is based, hasn't been corrected? Can you trust what you see?

In this hands-on session, you will learn many different ways to correct color in Adobe's Photoshop. Regardless of the version of Photoshop that you find loaded on your computer, you're sure to learn something new. Additionally, you learn that some sharpening techniques actually add colors to your image - and how to make sure that it doesn't happen to you.

Please come with your own laptop with a copy of Photoshop loaded and ready to go for this 1/2 - day workshop. A free 30 day trial of Photoshop http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
Digital Video Evidence Recovery Workshop
When a crime occurs, time is of the essence! Especially when it comes to video evidence. Locating, accessing, downloading and disseminating video evidence can provide timely insights and leads to any investigation.

Gaining the confidence to recover digital video evidence comes through practice and what better way to gain that confidence than a hands-on workshop specifically on Digital Video Evidence Recovery. This 1/2 - day workshop will allow for attendees to see some of the latest and greatest tools and techniques for recovering video evidence from Digital CCTV Recording Systems. Attendees will then apply what they learned on live Digital Systems.
Adobe Photoshop, Digital Imaging and Law Enforcement
Adobe Systems scientist & solutions architect, John Penn II, will be showing to Law Enforcement many brand new Photoshop and other new Adobe technologies and techniques. All new technologies that are a part of Photoshop Extended CS5 and their effects on law enforcement will be covered. Techniques valuable in law enforcement investigations will be demonstrated. It will provide law enforcement with a balanced understanding of the benefits and costs of digital evidence in their cases. Techniques that can be used by criminals to protect themselves from law enforcement will be addressed. Law enforcement attendees will be provided access to law enforcement only training resources.
Practicing Super-Resolution in the Real World
MotionDSP's CEO, Sean Varah, and Director of Product, Mike Sonders, will lead workshop participants through the workflow of enhancing videos with super-resolution technology, using the brand-new 2.0 release of MotionDSP's Ikena software. Exercises will include capturing video evidence from sources like cell phones and proprietary DVR playback software, enhancing videos with automatic presets and optional GPU-accelerated video processing, and creating media for courtroom- or client-presentation using automatic subject/object highlighting. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops and any video files on which they'd like to see super-resolution enhancement in action.
Registration for all workshops is available through the Attendee Registration Website. To register for DSI-Vegas, click here.
Speaker Abstracts
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Conference Tracks
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