Friday, March 23, 2007

CMU RI seminar:Exposing Digital Forgeries from Inconsistencies in Lighting

Hany Farid
Professor, Computer Science Department
Dartmouth College

With the advent of high-resolution digital cameras, powerful personal computers and sophisticated photo-editing software, the manipulation of digital images is becoming more common. To this end, we have been developing a suite of tools to detect tampering in digital images. I will discuss two related techniques for exposing forgeries from inconsistencies in lighting. In each case we show how to estimate the direction to a light source from only a single image: inconsistencies across the image are then used as evidence of tampering.
[Joint work with Kimo Johnson]

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