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Finding Fake Photos

Author
American Mathematical Society
Published
Wed 26 Dec 2007
Episode Link
http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmoments/podcast-mom-fakes.mp3

Actually, they weren.t caught together at all their images were put together with software. The shadows cast by the stars. faces give it away: The sun is coming from two different directions on the same beach! More elaborate digital doctoring is detected with mathematics. Calculus, linear algebra, and statistics are especially useful in determining when a portion of one image has been copied to another or when part of an image has been replaced.

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