Software to detect alterations in photographs

[Calboner]

I don't know how long it will be before this software is in widespread use, but I think that the photo-fakers will be losing their cover in the near future:

Start-up company Fourandsix Technologies, cofounded by Dartmouth College computer scientist Hany Farid, is developing software that will determine whether a photo has been altered since it was first taken - and if so, how.

Exposing digitally doctored photos - Business - The Boston Globe

 

[jojolongdong]

This is great news for those of us with nothing to worry about.
I do hope there aren't any glitches !

 

[Endued]

It sounds like he's saying you can find the make of camera in most pictures' tags in the first part, though I would hope he means something more advanced than that. Though that would have to be a pretty fucking advanced system to do that, so maybe that is just marketing bluster.

I don't really get how the rest of it would be more reliable than using the naked eye, but that's because I have no idea how the technology works so it sounds impressive to me.

 

[D_GlennFeckless]

It sounds like he's saying you can find the make of camera in most pictures' tags in the first part, though I would hope he means something more advanced than that. Though that would have to be a pretty fucking advanced system to do that, so maybe that is just marketing bluster.

I don't really get how the rest of it would be more reliable than using the naked eye, but that's because I have no idea how the technology works so it sounds impressive to me.

Hany's approach uses chromatic and spherical aberrations, as well as light and shadow maps cast in 3 planes to identify anomalous elements. Yeah, it is pretty "fucking advanced" and has nothing to do with readily forged EXIF tags. Art historians/curators, the FBI, US Congress and a few others who aren't easily satisfied by marketing bluster consider Hany and his students' work to be better than anything else available. Google his name a bit.

 

[petite]

Oh great. Like I want people to be able to tell all the times I've photoshopped out a zit.

Since a zit only lasts a few days, why preserve it for all time? Everything in the past should be seen through rose colored glasses. :tongue:

I'm super nice and I photoshop out the zits of my friends, too. I say, "Sh! Nobody needs to know!"

 

[D_PooNaHoe]

I photoshop imperfections onto my photos so people won't feel intimidated by my blinding beauty. Guess now folks will just have to face the true nature of my unfaltering manliness.

 

[petite]

I photoshop imperfections onto my photos so people won't feel intimidated by my blinding beauty. Guess now folks will just have to face the true nature of my unfaltering manliness.

:lmao:

That's very considerate of you! :tongue:

 

[hud01]

Oh great. Like I want people to be able to tell all the times I've photoshopped out a zit.

Since a zit only lasts a few days, why preserve it for all time? Everything in the past should be seen through rose colored glasses. :tongue:

I'm super nice and I photoshop out the zits of my friends, too. I say, "Sh! Nobody needs to know!"

I think it is more that if you put a new head on a body, etc.

 

[B_Hickboy]

I think it is more that if you put a new head on a body, etc.

Or enlarge a body part.

 

[MASSIVEPKGO_CHUCK]

Or enlarge a body part.

Or straighten out the ears on the dog in your latest avatar.

 

[OhWiseOne]

Zits? The big poppers? Don't they last more than a couple days?

Is LPSG going to be like Hoover and the FBI.

 

[D_JuanAFock]

Or enlarge a body part.

Damn, now everybody is going to find out about my small hands!

 

[D_GlennFeckless]

Damn, now everybody is going to find out about my small hands!

...and my enormous horse cock. Shit.

 

[Krusader]

In a totally unrelated news, LPSG subscribers drops 99%

 

[185248]

It's much more fun to use these things.