Recent News

	(11/09/09) Prof. Sean Smith and his group will be playing a major in an initiative to secure the power grid. Read more here.
	(11/08/09) Prof. Hany Farid finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked. Read more here.
	(11/08/09) Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury has been named a TEDIndia Fellow for 2009. Read more here.

Recent Technical Reports

• September 2009: Katana: A Hot Patching Framework for ELF Executables
• October 2010: Detecting Photographic Composites of Famous People
• September 2009: Activity-Aware Electrocardiogram-based Passive Ongoing Biometric Verification
• August 2009: Semantic and Visual Encoding of Diagrams
• July 2009: Distributed Monitoring of Conditional Entropy for Network Anomaly Detection

Featured Research

Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Tombs

Prof. Hany Farid

It is ironic that the Ancient Egyptian tombs, once sealed, were not intended to be seen by outsiders. Yet the highly valued and often reproduced tomb decorations have had a profound influence on art and have contributed significantly to our understanding of the Ancient Egyptian culture.

We describe how recent advances in computational and digital technology can add a new perspective to these marvels of antiquity. Of particular interest to us has been the development of a technique for the digital reconstruction of tombs, allowing for the creation of undistorted panoramic views of tomb interiors that are simply unattainable with traditional imaging methods.

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