Researchers can determine what smartphone a photo was taken on by analyzing it

Published December 14, 2017 This content is archived.

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An article on Vox’s The Verge reports UB researchers have discovered a way to identify smartphones by analyzing just a single photo taken by the device, and quotes Kui Ren, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.

“Like snowflakes, no two smartphones are the same. Each device, regardless of the manufacturer or make, can be identified through a pattern of microscopic imaging flaws that are present in every picture they take,” he said. “It’s kind of like matching bullets to a gun, only we’re matching photos to a smartphone camera.”

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