US professors stay mum on sex video

Two American college professors who conducted facial recognition analysis on opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's sex video, shied away from the media after the Datuk T trial ended in a guilty verdict for the video screeners late last month.

The computer science duo from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire wasreported to have found a 99.99 percent match between the man in the video and a known photo of the PKR de facto leader, but the professors did not return multiple requests for comment on the subject.

Lorenzo Torresani, an assistant professor of computer science, has written several papers on 3-D modeling, object classification and motion styles.

The National Science Foundation Career award recipient previously worked at several industrial research labs, including Microsoft Research Cambridge, Like.com and Digital Persona. As part of a visual learning research group at Dartmouth, Torresani studies ways to create real-world models of visual data.

Hany Farid - whose research focuses on digital forensics, image analysis, computer vision and human perception - has been teaching computer science for more than a decade. Farid also serves as chief technology officer and co-founder of photo forensics company Fourandsix Technologies.

The go-to consultant for image authentication and forensic photographic analysis appeared in the headlines recently for debunking doctored photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse and taking a closer look at former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner's tweetedmisdeeds.

With regards to the video screen by 'Datuk T' The results of their reports "verified the authenticity of the video, that there was no tampering or any act of superimposing and that it originated from a DVR camcorder taken from Datuk Shazryl," said deputy public prosecutor Kamalluddin Md Said when reading the facts of the case in court on June 24.

Counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah showed a copy of the June 4 analysis to reporters the day of the trial but refused to allow the document to be reproduced.

The percentage of certainty was not included in the statement of facts read out in open court and the figure was blacked out in a copy of the statement obtained by Malaysiakini.

Neither professor verified the figure in the report with Malaysiakini. - Malaysiakini