Eric Keeand Hany Farid created algorithms to detect which portions of a photograph have been monkeyed with, and how much monkeying was done to each portion. Their study is “A Perceptual Metric for Photo Retouching,” Eric Kee [pictured here — we leave it to you to determine whether the image has been enhanced] and Hany Farid, […]
Tag: Analysis
Analyses of Bread: (1) Thick and (2) Old
We give you this day double your daily ration of studies about bread: “PROTON INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION ANALYSIS OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN THICK BREAD SAMPLES,” Mohamed Baker Al-Bedri, Ikram Jameel Abdul Ghani, Ibrahim Abdul Rahman Al-Aghil, International Journal of PIXE, Volume: 19, Issues: 3-4(2009) pp. 133-141. (thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our […]
Offerings online — analysis
Tammy Castle of James Madison University and Jenifer Lee of Texas A&M International University analyzed how prostitution is adapting to the Internet: “Ordering sex in cyberspace: a content analysis of escort websites,” International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 107-121 (2008). They report: “The purpose of this study was to uncover information about […]
Early computer-based analysis of scifi
In 1977, William Sims Bainbridge and Murray M. Dalziel wrote “New Maps of Science Fiction.” Published in Analog Yearbook [1977, pp. 277-99], it was one of the first carefully done computer-based social sciencey analyses of science fiction. The essay says (among other things): Our computer has generated many more maps of science fiction, enough for […]