Developed by CTAC-funded scientists in partnership with the FBI, this
advanced technology system takes shaky surveillance video, processes each
frame through software developed to meet this complicated challenge, and
transforms what had been useless and frustrating into clear, hard evidence. In
Pima County, Arizona, where Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is a pioneer in the use
of advanced technology to combat drug crime, the Metropolitan Area
Narcotics Trafficking Interdiction Squad, known as MANTIS, obtained the
Video Stabilization System through the Technology Transfer Program and
used it to draw maximum information from some very shaky surveillance
video. Results so far: 21 arrests and over $100,000 cash and property seized.
