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Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in photo forensics, a field that emerged to restore trust in photography by developing mathematical and computational algorithms to detect tampering in digital media. Farid's research is centered on understanding how digital images can be manipulated and how these alterations impact society, especially through political media, tabloid publications, and various online platforms. His work has produced significant techniques for detecting statistical correlations indicative of specific forms of digital tampering and reconstructing content from severely degraded images. Farid has also explored human perception in object recognition, contributing to the understanding of how the brain processes visual information. His publications are accessible through Google Scholar, showcasing a substantial body of work in image analysis and computational forensics.
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