From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 09:24:07 MDT
Includes some video clips, evidently. I haven't checked the Globe article
first hand yet.
"_Rising Sun_, meet Ubiquitous Surveillance. Surveillance, _Sun_. I think you
might have Moore's Law as a mutual acquaintance?"
[SPOILER: _Rising Sun_ was a Michael Crichton book & movie which had video
tampering as a central plot element]
A friend forwards:
All very interesting. I’m not so worried about falsified testimony, as long as
people are aware of the technology. Just that the flip side of that is that
absolutely nothing will be believable, which has been a rising phenomenon
already in the the media age. Sigh.
...
At MIT, they can put words in our mouths
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/135/metro/At_MIT_they_can_put_words_in_our_mouths+.shtml
By Gareth Cook, Globe Staff, 5/15/2002
CAMBRIDGE - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have
created the first realistic videos of people saying things they never said - a
scientific leap that raises unsettling questions about falsifying the moving
image.
In one demonstration, the researchers taped a woman speaking into a camera,
and then reprocessed the footage into a new video that showed her speaking
entirely new sentences, and even mouthing words to a song in Japanese, a
language she does not speak. The results were enough to fool viewers
consistently, the researchers report.
The technique's inventors say it could be used in video games and movie
special effects, perhaps reanimating Marilyn Monroe or other dead film stars
with new lines. It could also improve dubbed movies, a lucrative global
industry.
But scientists warn the technology will also provide a powerful new tool for
fraud and propaganda - and will eventually cast doubt on everything from video
surveillance to presidential addresses....
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