Topic: Hany Farid

Have you heard about the new software that spots where Photoshop or other manipulation programs have been used to digitally alter pictures? ....

Facebook and Microsoft battle child porn

Facebook and Microsoft on Friday formally unveiled an alliance to ferret out child porn and those that share such images at the world's leading online social network.Facebook will use PhotoDNA technology developed by Microsoft and Dartmouth College computer science professor ...
Pixel perfect body? No thanks: British government steps in to curb digitally slimmed modelsBeware those impossibly tiny waists and never-ending legs: looking at too much airbrushed beauty in glossy magazines can be hazardous to your health.That, at least, is what campaigners ...

Microsoft donates weapon to fight child porn

Microsoft has crafted a new weapon that Internet service providers will be able to wield to battle the growing problem of child pornography.The technology colossus is giving the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) software that uses unique ...
An incriminating photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is not a fake, as Oswald and others had claimed, a new analysis concludes. Oswald and others who believed the Kennedy assassination was a broader conspiracy claimed that the incriminating ...
Using 3-D modeling, Dartmouth computer scientist says infamous photo of JFK assassin is realThe infamous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle in his backyard would have been nearly impossible to fake, according to a new analysis by a Dartmouth College ...

The 10 Most Popular Slide Shows of 2008

com's most-viewed slide shows of 2008. David Biello led a tour through a house that runs on hydrogen and solar power. Computer-generated images revealed a new way to look at election results and the map of the United States.

Is That Iranian Missile Photo a Fake?

If you haven't heard by now, newspapers and blogs are reporting that a photo of an Iranian missile test yesterday was digitally manipulated. The New York Times reports that Agence France-Presse obtained the image from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's news ...

Identifying Manipulated Images

Photo-editing software gets more sophisticated all the time, allowing users to alter pictures in ways both fun and fraudulent. Tools that analyze lighting are particularly useful because "lighting is hard to fake" without leaving a trace, says Micah Kimo Johnson, a researcher ...

Detecting Video Forgeries

Some of the early video-forensics efforts are coming out of Dartmouth College, where Hany Farid, professor of computer science, and researcher Weihong Wang have illustrated a method for detecting if a high-quality video has been re-saved--a telltale sign that someone has tampered ...