Award to support research on digital image forensics
Hany Farid
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Associate Professor of Computer Science Hany Farid has been awarded a
fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. Farid's award will support his work in digital image
forensics.
According to the Guggenheim Foundation press release, the fellows
"are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and
exceptional promise for future accomplishment." The Guggenheim Fellowship
program provides support so Fellows can work with as much creative freedom as
possible. The 2006 fellowship winners include 187 artists, scholars, and
scientists selected from almost 3,000 applicants for awards totaling more than
$7.5 million.
Carol Folt, dean of
the faculty of arts and sciences and professor of biological sciences, says,
"I am so pleased that Hany has been recognized for his distinctive and
pioneering research in computer science with this prestigious award. His work
is highly innovative. He exemplifies the interdisciplinary scholar at Dartmouth
as he pursues research and teaching with colleagues from the arts, social
sciences, and sciences. His dynamic teaching has also enriched our curriculum
and contributed to a growing field of interest nationwide. We're proud to have
him here."
Farid's work examines the mathematics and statistics behind digital media,
including images, audio recordings, and video. He has developed algorithms that
can determine whether digital media have been altered or manipulated, and which
can be applied to questions in court cases, of scientific legitimacy, and in
art authentication. He is also interested in the digital reconstruction of
ancient Egyptian tombs, for which he creates undistorted panoramic views of
tomb interiors. In addition to publishing dozens of academic papers, his
research has been featured in the popular media with prominent stories in
The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, BBC Radio,
The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, The Economist, and
Newsweek. He is regularly called upon to testify in cases where the
veracity of digital photos is in question.
"I've always been interested in thinking about different ways of
representing, analyzing, and visualizing digital images, and most recently in
developing techniques to expose digital tampering," says Farid.
"Digital forensics is a rapidly evolving field, and it's exciting to be in
at the beginning."
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted almost $247 million in
fellowships to more than 16,000 individuals. Past fellows include Ansel Adams,
Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Linus Pauling, Martha Graham,
Philip Roth, Wendy Wasserstein, and Eudora Welty.
By SUSAN KNAPP
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