Identifying Manipulated Images: New tools that analyze the lighting in images help spot tampering

Technology Review (MIT) ^ | March 17, 2008 | Erica Naone

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Please also see the Comments area at the article's original page where the Author as well as Dr. Neal Krawetz are answering reader questions.

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I hope they take a historical look at all of AP’s evil Israel/pro-Palestinian photos.

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He was really there! I promise.

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Johnson says that he sees a need for tools that a news agency, for example, could use to quickly perform a dozen basic checks on an image to look for fraud. While it might not catch all tampering, he says, such a tool would be an important step, and it could work "like an initial spam filter."

Should be standard issue for AP and Reuters as well as Google News.

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ROTFLMAO!!!!!

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I hope they take a historical look at all of AP’s evil Israel/pro-Palestinian photos.

Green helmet guy will be "famous" if they do.

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But a tool could be created to analyze an image and correct anything that these tools look at to detect fake images...thus rendering the tools useless.

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In related news, NASA announced today that all images of moon landings have been archived and secured under the Homeland Security Act...

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Good post Stoat

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No, Ms. Rice is not a Goa'uld.

Ms. Clinton ...

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Yes, but another tool could then be created to detect the corrections.....usw ( a little German abbreviation there)

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Awesome.

BTW, the AP is screwed.

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But a tool could be created to analyze an image and correct anything that these tools look at to detect fake images...thus rendering the tools useless.

I suppose we could be looking at a tech war of sorts with competing R&D efforts....one side continuously working on technologies to identify manipulated photos and others trying to circumvent those efforts.  Sounds much like internet / computer security R&D in general.  In that arena, we have an ongoing war with neither side giving up and both sides claiming victories at one point or another, and all the while the end-user public is hoping that they are being adequately protected   :-)

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Good post Stoat

Thank you for your kind words  :-)

These technologies could conceivably put a real dent in the Left's favored spin methodologies....if they can't lie with images anymore, they haven't got much else  :-)