Nbcuniversal Media, LLC

General Electric Company

Roderic Greene Collins

Catherine Mary Graichen

Corey Nicholas Bufi

Michael Shane Wilkinson

Budhaditya Deb

Zhaohui Harry Sun

Anthony James Hoogs

Anthony Christopher Anderson

Aaron Shaw Markham

Joseph Leagrand Mundy

Van-Duc Nguyen

Charles Vernon Stewart

Jenny Marie Weisenberg

Donald Wagner Hamilton

Victor Nzomigni

Jenny Marie Weisenberg Williams

A method and system for identifying a source of a copied work that in one embodiment includes obtaining at least some portions of a reference work, collecting at least some portions of the suspect work, matching the suspect work with the reference work, wherein the matching includes temporally aligning one or more frames of the reference work and the suspect work, spatially aligning frames of the reference work and the suspect work, and detecting forensic marks in the suspect work by spatiotemporal matching with the reference work.

System and method for forensic analysis of media works

The present invention is directed to an imaging apparatus for examining an object having smooth surfaces to determine shape deformations in the surface of object. The imaging apparatus includes an imaging device for obtaining a scanned image of the object to be examined. A reference image of the object is stored in a memory. An image register is coupled to the imaging device and to the memory containing the reference image of the object. The image register stores patch information corresponding to both the reference image and the scanned image. A transformation estimator is coupled to the image register, and provides a transform for registering the scanned image to the reference image. A deformation estimator is coupled to the transformation estimator and to the image register. The deformation estimator is configured to utilize the transform and the patch information to determine shape deformations of the object.

Method and apparatus for finding shape deformations in objects having smooth surfaces

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Roderic Greene Collins