With the increased availability of fake or altered digital visuals such as fake videos comes the question: How can we trace the origin and establish the owner of a visual asset?
Secure digital ownership also opens up an entire new economy for visual data transactions. This ETH spinoff is developing a technology to verify images, video, and 3D data for gaming and AR/VR applications in a robust manner: A counterfeit resistant signature of a visual is computed and stored on a blockchain. This approach is complemented by a novel and patented technology for downscaling images.
The team consists of experts from ETH Zurich in computer graphics, vision, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, co-founded and advised by Prof. Markus Gross - a successful serial entrepreneur.