Goodbye Phony Bigfoot Photos: This app will automatically detect Photoshopped images

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This new app could mean the end of fake Photoshopped images of Bigfoot. Scientists in the United States have come up with a tool for automatically analysing digital photographs, making it possible to gauge the extent to which images have been altered or retouched.

According to Gizmodo.com, scientists have created a new software program that will automatically detect any image that has been modified in Photoshop.
The software is now tuned to faces, but it will be able to flag any type of image, they say.

The application—created by Hany Farid and Eric Kee of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire—uses eight statistical parameters to detect real changes on the model, not general modifications like cropping or color adjustments. It can sniff geometric modifications like reshaped face features or body parts used to make models appear thinner. It will also detect texture changes, like smoothed skin.

They trained their program using input from 350 volunteers, obtaining an 80% accuracy. The first version of the software is tuned for faces, but the scientist claim that they can easily repurpose it to detect manipulations in any kind of images, such as those presented by scientists in research. Or, you know, the classic Apple rumor spy shots.

For now, they hope that advertisers would include the manipulation percentage next to the model faces and bodies, as a warning label to women who may fall into self-confidence problems that eventually may lead to anorexia and other eating disorders. That's a great idea that is not coming soon enough.
via Gizmodo

Read more at Nature.com.

Comments

  1. AnonymousWednesday, November 30, 2011 at 7:30:00 PM PST

    Well there goes all the fake ass hoaxers. Better late than never. Now we can finally prove they're full of shit and shun them into never putting their crap out again.


    CTJ

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  2. TooRisky Co-Founder WASRTWednesday, November 30, 2011 at 8:54:00 PM PST

    Yes a very good tool to separate the wheat from the chaff...

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  3. Sharon DayWednesday, November 30, 2011 at 9:29:00 PM PST

    Yeah, but it still can't tell you that someone shot a picture of a tree trunk or a person in an ape suit, but still a bit more helpful than nothing. I used to model and sometimes seeing the pictures afterwards would make me go "who the hell is that?"

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  4. AnonymousWednesday, November 30, 2011 at 10:05:00 PM PST

    No one is photoshopping their bigfoot hoaxes. They just get someone to wear a gorilla suit and shake a camera. No art to it.

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  5. AnonymousThursday, December 1, 2011 at 4:58:00 AM PST

    I totally know what you mean, I used to model too and isn't it just so frustrating when they alter our natural beauty.

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