Hany Farid is the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science at Dartmouth College, and chair of Dartmouth's Neukom Institute for Computational Science. Farid specializes in image analysis, human perception, and has been called the "father" of digital image forensics by NOVA scienceNOW.[1][2] The recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2002 Sloan Fellowship for his work in the field,[3] Farid has consulted for intelligence agencies, news organizations and scientific journals seeking to authenticate the validity of images.[4] 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 Farid, after digitally analyzing a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and newspaper, published his findings[5] concluding that "the photo almost certainly was not altered."[6]
He received his B.S. in computer science and applied mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.[3]
Contents |
He was reported to be one of the person who prepare a report of video analysis together with Professor Lorenzo Torresani in a sex trial in Malaysia. It was stated that on 4 June, experts from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire in the US verified the authenticity of the video, that there was no tampering or any act of super-imposing and that it originated from a DVR camcorder taken from Datuk Shazryl.[7], [8]