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Programmers can manipulate the maps on smartphones or satellite images on computers to appear different than how they are. Now researchers are warning that the technology could be used to cook images of public lands and natural disasters.
It may only be a matter of time until the growing problem of ''deep fakes'' converges with geographical information science (GIS). A research team including faculty at Binghamton University are doing what they can to get ahead of the problem.
Comments Off on Exposing ‘Deepfake Geography’ SEATTLE, Washington, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – A fire in New York’s Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. Colorful lights on Diwali night in India, seen from space, seem to show fireworks exploding. But they are false images that demonstrate “location spoofing.” The two photos – created by different people, for different purposes – are fake but they look like genuine images of real places. And with the more sophisticated artificial intelligence, AI, technologies available today, resea...
What may appear to be an image of Tacoma is, in fact, a simulated one, created by transferring visual patterns of Beijing onto a map of a real Tacoma neighborhood.Zhao et al., 2021, Cartography and Geographic Information Science A fire in Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. Colorful lights on Diwali night in India, seen from space, seem to show widespread fireworks activity. Both images exemplify what a new University of Washington-led study calls âlocation spoofing.â The photos â created by different people, for diffe...