Walter Scheirer
Computer Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor
- Image forensics
- Computer vision
- Machine learning
- Biometrics
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Scheirer in the News
The Washington Post
Yes, people lie online. But it may matter less than we fear.
December 06, 2023
In “A History of Fake Things on the Internet,” computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer proposes that much of what has been disparaged as “misinformation” is best considered under a different rubric: that of art.
The New Yorker
What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes
November 13, 2023
The computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer has worked in media forensics for years. He understands more than most how these new technologies could set off a society-wide epistemic meltdown, yet he sees no signs that they are doing so. Doctored videos online delight, taunt, jolt, menace, arouse, and amuse, but they rarely deceive. As Scheirer argues in his new book, “A History of Fake Things on the Internet” (Stanford), the situation just isn’t as bad as it looks.
Salon
Limits to growth: Can AI’s voracious appetite for data be tamed?
November 05, 2021
"It seems to me that the big internet companies are very reluctant to even talk about this because it threatens their core business," said Walter Scheirer, a computer scientist at the University of Notre Dame.