If they're so 'renowned' why can't you name them?
That shadow on the left cheek?...Some kind of freak eclipse I suppose?
I've already did. Are you questioning this man's qualifications?
Farid is known as
"the father of digital image forensics" so that indeed makes him world renowned in his field of digital image forensics. He is also called upon by intelligence agencies and news organizations to conduct forensics on photos and digital images. So yes, this man is world renowned in his field.
You are just posting your own personal theory of what you want it to be and dismiss the forensic evidence. And if you bothered to read the article, the "shadow" went under forensic photo analysis and was determined to be authentic. Even after a rigorous forensic photo analysis you still suggest the shadow was faked.....amazing.
Do you have any forensic evidence that proves the shadow or any of these these Backyard photos to be forged or faked?
Hany FaridHany Farid is an American university professor who specializes in the analysis of digital images, Dean and Head of School for the UC Berkeley School of Information. In addition to teaching, writing, and conducting research, Farid acts as a consultant for non-profits, government agencies, and news organizations. He is the author of the book Photo Forensics.
Farid specializes in image analysis and human perception. He has been called the "father" of digital image forensics by NOVA scienceNOW. He is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2002 Sloan Fellowship for his work in the field. Farid was named a lifetime fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2016.
Farid has consulted for intelligence agencies, news organizations, courts, and scientific journals seeking to authenticate the validity of images. This is critically important because graphics programs, such as Photoshop, are frequently used to crop and to label figures in scientific publications. Such manipulations can be used to alter or disguise the data.
In 2009, after digitally analyzing a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and newspaper, Farid published his findings concluding that "the photo almost certainly was not altered". When the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year was alleged as being "fake", Farid spoke out against the allegation and criticized its underlying method, error level analysis.
As of 2018, Farid was a consultant for the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.
PhotoDNA is a system that uses robust hashing technology Farid worked on with Microsoft, which is now widely used by Internet companies to stop the spread of content showing exploitation involving children. In late 2015, Farid completed improvements to PhotoDNA that made it capable of analyzing video and audio files besides still images. In 2016, Farid proposed that the technology could be used to stem the spread of terror-related imagery, but there was little interest shown initially by social media companies. In December 2016, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft announced plans to use PhotoDNA to tackle extremist content such as terrorist recruitment videos or violent terrorist imagery, which was done e.g. to automatically remove al Qaeda videos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hany_Faridhttps://cybersecai.com/speaker/hany-farid/Hany Farid, M.S.’92
Father of Digital Forensicshttps://www.albany.edu/ualbanymagazine/fall2017_farid-father-of-digital-forensics.shtmlPodcast: Hany Farid on deep fakes, doctored photos, and disinformationhttps://www.brookings.edu/techstream/podcast-hany-farid-on-deep-fakes-doctored-photos-and-disinformation/
