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New Technique For Making JPEG Images Copy-Evident
Gunkerty Jeb writes "The days of wondering whether those drunken sex party photos are indeed the Olsen Twins, or if they are just the Mary-Kate and Ashley's faces photo-shopped on the bodies of Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse are OVER! A group of academic researchers at the University of Cambridge has developed a new technique for making JPEG images copy-evident, so that users can tell whether an image has been recompressed and copied."
Nice try at getting fast karma from a first post, but that's not going to work. The screen shot will already be of the compressed image, and will still show signs of re-compressing it.
If you're really serious about putting Mary Kate and Ashley's head on Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse's bodies, like it says in TFS, you'd use RAW. Then, you can compress everything together. Besides, if you upload that to photo sharing websites (especially Facebook) there's a high chance your picture would be recompressed, so it would have the compression artifacts whether it's been altered or not.
Fail.
Have access to RAW files of the aforementioned act involving Lindsay and Amy, along with ideally angled shots of the Olsen's faces? Didn't think so. So, you go to google images and start digging. What you find (in the ideal world this paper is picturing (ugh no pun intended)) is that every content creator (from the pr0n guys to the papparazzi that took the olsen's picture) have applied this filter to their work, and as such your efforts are for not. Don't get me wrong, there are tons of problems with this whole idea, but saying "well raw doesnt have artifacts anyway" is a bit of a fail.