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Exposing Digital Forgeries Through Specular Highlights on the Eye

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Information Hiding (IH 2007)

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When creating a digital composite of two people, it is difficult to exactly match the lighting conditions under which each individual was originally photographed. In many situations, the light source in a scene gives rise to a specular highlight on the eyes. We show how the direction to a light source can be estimated from this highlight. Inconsistencies in lighting across an image are then used to reveal traces of digital tampering.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA

    Micah K. Johnson & Hany Farid

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  1. Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre, INRIA Rennes, Campus universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes cedex, France

    Teddy Furon

  2. Gipsa-lab Grenoble, CNRS, 961, rue de la Houille Blanche, BP 46, 38042, St. Martin d’Hères Cedex, France

    François Cayre

  3. University College London, Adastral Park, Ross Building 2, IP5 3RE, Martlesham, UK

    Gwenaël Doërr

  4. Gipsa-lab Grenoble, CNRS, 961 rue de la Houille Blanche Domaine universitaire, B.P. 46, 38402, Saint Martin d’Hères cedex, France

    Patrick Bas

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Johnson, M.K., Farid, H. (2007). Exposing Digital Forgeries Through Specular Highlights on the Eye. In: Furon, T., Cayre, F., Doërr, G., Bas, P. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4567. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77370-2_21

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