John Nack on Adobe : Photoshop science: Fugazi edition

June 10, 2008

(In the Donnie Brasco, instead of DC punk, sense of the word)

In Scientific American, Adobe collaborator Hany Farid writes about 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo. [Via everyone ever]
When we beefed up technical imaging tools in CS3 Extended, faking research results was not the goal! "The magnitude of the fraud is phenomenal," says Dr. Farid. [Via Doug Nelson]
"In Russia, the in-flight movie watches you…" Could aircraft security systems detect suspicious behavior just by staring at you? Unsurprisingly Boing Boing thinks it’s "snake oil."

Posted by John Nack at 9:14 AM on June 10, 2008

Ben Hansen — 9:55 AM on June 10, 2008 Reply

That article on spotting fake photos is awesome. ‘cept that it should be called one way to spot a doctored photo and four ways detect them with computers and the right software.
Blue Buffalo — 9:43 AM on June 17, 2008 Reply

That is a great article on spotting fakes.
I thought you were going to talk about Fugazi the band. Bummer : )