Video Enhancement Expert Witnesses

San Francisco, California

Acoustics, Video - Audibility, Audio Technology, Patent & copyright (audio), Musicology, Acoustic measurement, Digital Authentication, Video enhancement, Forensic Musicology, Warning Signals, Audio enhancement, Rebuttal, Accident analysis: audibility, Speech Intelligibility, body worn camera videos, Audio Forensics

Expert consultant in the areas of acoustics; video and audio evidence recordings; audio patent infringement analysis; acoustic measurement; speech intelligibility and warning signal audibility; human factors and psychoacoustics; musicology and copyright infringement; voice comparison; and recorded gunshot analysis. Authentication, speech enhancement, signal identification and analysis of audio-video recordings in legal cases. Body worn camera, dash cam, security camera, cell phone analysis. Research scientist, psychoacoustics, NASA 1988-2025; Consultant; Salter Associates, 1996-current. Consultation in over 1000 audio-video and acoustic forensic cases since 1987. Expert testimony in over 100 cases in court or depositions, in U.S. Federal and State courts including the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), and courts in Canada and International arbitration panels (World Bank-ICSID).

Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts

Video, Digital Forensics - video authentication, image authentication, deepfake, video manipulation, image manipulation, video enhancement, image enhancement, synthetic media, ai generated

Ted Economides is a Certified Forensic Video Technician (CFVT) specializing in image/video authentication. With the advancement of artificial intelligence, it is becoming easier for people to manipulate images and videos, or create deepfakes, and then present them as evidence. Ted has certifications and access to forensic software tailor built for forensic image/video analysis. He is an Amped FIVE Certified Examiner (AFCE) through Amped Software, and a Magnet Certified Authenticity Examiner (MCAE) through Magnet Forensics. He has the ability to detect if an image/video was generated with AI or manipulated after it was created. He also has the ability to determine the provenance of an image or video to ascertain if it is a camera original, or if it was altered in any way since its creation. Ted also has 13 years of law enforcement experience rising to the rank of lieutenant in a mid-size police agency in Massachusetts. Ted spent time as a detective and later supervised his departme...

Brentwood, Tennessee

Video, Audio - video forensics, video enhancement, video analysis, forensic video, audio forensics, audio enhancement, audio analysis, forensic audio, voice forensics, voice enhancement, image forensics, image enhancement

Principle Forensics is a national media forensics laboratory. We recover, authenticate, enhance, and analyze all types of recorded evidence, including video, audio, and digital images. And we back all our work with experienced, highly trained, expert testimony. Nick Barreiro, BAC, AVFA, DIVRT, is a certified Audio Video Forensic Analyst and the founder of Principle Forensics.  He is an FBI-trained member of the Digital Imaging and Video Recovery Team.  Mr. Barreiro works with attorneys representing plaintiffs and defendants in civil or criminal matters in which audio, video, or image evidence plays a key role.  He has extensive experience on the witness stand and has enhanced and analyzed digital media from simple slip-and-fall cases and minor traffic accidents to complex investigations such as homicides and officer-involved shootings.  He has testified 100s of times in criminal cases, civil cases, arbitrations, and depositions. Mr. Barreiro holds a bachelor’s degree in Communic...