Veritone IDEMS: AI-Driven Digital Evidence Management System

Rob Gerber is a Veritone Solutions Engineer and former Homicide Investigator - Antioch Police Department

In the previous blogs, we highlighted the need for effective digital evidence management in today's complex digital environment. Law enforcement agencies, legal professionals, and organizations across various sectors increasingly rely on digital evidence to investigate crimes, conduct legal proceedings, and ensure justice is served. However, the sheer volume of digital data-from body cam footage to surveillance videos and social media records-has introduced new challenges in storage, retrieval, security, and the investigatory review process..

In this blog, we'll briefly discuss the importance of efficient digital evidence management before diving into Veritone IDEMS, a game-changing AI-powered investigatory solution. We'll take a look at what it is exactly, its key features, and the benefits of using it. But first, why should you care about having AI capabilities to drive a more efficient digital evidence management practice? Let's explore.

The importance of AI-driven digital evidence management

As digital evidence plays an increasingly pivotal role in law enforcement and legal proceedings, managing vast amounts of data has become one of the most pressing concerns for agencies. Without a well-organized, secure system in place, critical evidence can be lost, mismanaged, or compromised. This risks the integrity of investigations and can lead to legal challenges or unideal outcomes.

Centralizing this digital evidence into a single, secure, cloud-based repository is only half the battle. Next, you must understand exactly what you have in this vast archive for each unique case. That's where artificial intelligence can help. As content is ingested into this environment, you can run various AI engines to enrich this media with metadata to make it more searchable. It can also provide invaluable insights for investors into what each file may contain and help surface only the most relevant files or moments within for an investigation.

Why efficient digital evidence management matters

Agencies today face obstacles such as siloed systems, manual workflows, and time-consuming data processing methods. In this environment, the need for an intelligent, centralized, and secure evidence management system is paramount. This is where Veritone IDEMS steps in as a game-changing solution.

Powered by artificial intelligence, Veritone IDEMS is designed to revolutionize digital evidence management by offering a robust, secure, and efficient platform to handle the growing complexities of modern investigations. With IDEMS, organizations can streamline their workflows, enhance accuracy, and safeguard sensitive information like never before. Solutions like Veritone IDEMS provide the much-needed innovation to tackle these issues, enabling professionals to manage digital evidence efficiently while maintaining the highest security and compliance standards.

Key features of Veritone IDEMS

Veritone IDEMS is an intelligent digital evidence management solution suite powered by AI that helps you consolidate your digital evidence into one CJIS-compliant cloud location, saving you valuable time and resources as you build stronger cases. It combines multiple Veritone applications into a single solution suite, enabling various AI-driven capabilities for downstream workflows.

The transformative features of Veritone IDEMS

Veritone IDEMS offers these key features. While this list isn't exhaustive, it does provide a key snapshot of what the solution suite can accomplish, including:

• Digital evidence management: supported by Veritone Investigate, you can centralize and easily manage, organize, search, and share audio, video, images, and PDFs on a secure, CJIS-compliant AWS cloud.
• Suspect identification and search:connected to Veritone IDentify, you can automatically compare suspects that appear in video and photographic evidence against your booking database, allowing a human investigator to review potential leads from repeat offenders.
• AI-powered eDiscovery: with capabilities from Veritone Illuminate, you can reveal front-end insights that might not have been uncovered in subsequent search efforts, Veritone Illuminate delivers cutting-edge conceptual data visualizations and text analytics derived from audio and video files and transcript text.
• Automated audio and video redaction:tapping into the power of Veritone Redact, you can automate your redaction process of PII with easy detection of heads, people, license plates, notepads and more, as well as select user-defined objects and search audio for specific words or phrases, among other capabilities.
• Person-of-interest and vehicle tracking: more advanced than facial recognition technology, Veritone Trackuses its AI engine to identify people as "human-like objects" in frames across videos without any biometric markers. IT can store those detections and reference them to find similar-looking individuals in other moments of video footage. It can also help investigators identify and track vehicles across this footage.

The benefits of using Veritone IDEMS

Veritone IDEMS offers three key benefits: accelerated investigations, streamlined workflows, and increased clearance rates.

Veritone IDEMS leverages advanced AI models-such as transcription, translation, object detection, vehicle and license plate recognition, and text recognition-to quickly search and discover critical evidence that supports criminal cases. The solution suite streamlines the management of disparate information by ingesting relevant media, images, and PDFs from various data sources into a single, centralized evidence hub. This AI-powered approach eliminates human error and enhances accuracy, making searching for key information within audio and video files easier, whether through keyword searches or during playback.

Furthermore, it helps unravel bottlenecks by offering seamless AI capabilities all in one place, including eDiscovery, suspect identification, person and vehicle-of-interest tracking, and automated redaction. These tools expedite workflows and accelerate the investigatory process, allowing professionals to quickly find key evidence and information relevant to open cases, ultimately helping them meet deadlines more efficiently.

Lastly, investigative evidence and findings can be released in weeks rather than months. The platform enables seamless collaboration by allowing professionals to digitally share key evidence and case information with colleagues within and outside their agency at the click of a button, streamlining communication and accelerating case resolution.

The advantages of implementing Veritone IDEMS

Implementing an AI-based digital evidence management solution provides several benefits to your organization. For instance, you can:

• Virtualize investigative workflows from disparate data sources: you can now gather evidence and other information across multiple sources and centralize it in one location without using the master files.
• AI-powered central evidence hub: as a modern digital evidence management solution, Veritone IDEMS can act as your central location so you can quickly search and discover critical evidence and information.
• Seamless connectivity: when you adopt Veritone IDEMS, you can access a whole portfolio of proven AI solutions with all the capabilities described previously in the blog. You can also access an ecosystem of over three hundred AI engines.
• Extensive partner ecosystem: Veritone's solutions are interoperable with the most popular devices and systems that collect digital evidence, such as bodyworn cameras, video management systems, digital forensics systems, and cloud providers. This makes it even easier to collect and analyze evidence from disparate sources.
• Low total cost of ownership:Veritone does not charge cloud storage feed and offers one of the lowest total cost of ownership for a modern intelligence digital evidence management solution.
• Enterprise AI scalability: our underlying platform technology, aiWARE, is the foundation that powers all of our purpose-built applications, providing professionals like you with even greater capability to accelerate investigations like never before.

In an era where digital evidence plays a pivotal role in law enforcement and legal proceedings, having an efficient, AI-driven management system is no longer a luxury-it's a necessity. Veritone IDEMS provides an innovative solution to agencies' growing challenges in handling vast volumes of digital data.

IDEMS helps professionals accelerate investigations, eliminate errors, and improve case outcomes by centralizing evidence, harnessing AI, and streamlining workflows. With features like suspect identification, eDiscovery, automated redaction, and more, Veritone iDEMS transforms how digital evidence is managed. Implementing this cutting-edge solution offers organizations enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and scalability while ensuring they stay at the forefront of modern investigative practices.

The result? Faster case resolutions, increased clearance rates, and a future-proof approach to digital evidence management.

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