PhotoTechEDU Day 14: Exposing Digital Forgeries from...

Google Tech Talks April 25, 2007 ABSTRACT 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. Credits: Speaker:Hany Farid