Knott Laboratory provides forensic engineering and animation, Civil & Structural, and Fire & Explosion Investigation services to reconstruct accidents.

What is Video Matching?

Placing computer generated vehicles or objects into video results in highly realistic animations.

Published November 29, 2018

By Richard M. Ziernicki, Ph.D., P.E., DFE

 

 

Video matching (or Matchmoving) is a process that allows us to composite computer generated objects into a video background.  Using this process we can incorporate animated vehicle motion on top of real video taken of the accident scene to create very accurate and photo-realistic looking visualizations of accidents.

 

We can do this very accurately because of advancements of technologies like High-Definition 3D Laser Scanning and sophisticated matchmoving software.

 

Furthermore, the matchmoving process is based on the Science of Photogrammetry which gives you a solid scientific foundation for the visualizations.