IMPACTFUL RESEARCH
BEYOND THE
PIX E L S The digital revolution has radically changed the way people interact. Today almost half of the world’s population are connected to the internet whether it’s watching or sending videos, looking at images on social media, reading or watching the news. We now have 24/7 access to the rest of the world online. But not everything we see is reality.
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Pam Johnston, a developing lecturer at RGU’s School of Computing Science and Digital Media, has been looking beyond the pixels to detect when an image or a video has been manipulated – ultimately preventing digital tampering. Pam initially started her journey with RGU as a KTP associate working with Dr Eyad Elyan and a local technology company and when that came to an end, she applied for a fully-funded PhD which focussed on learning and utilising video compression features for localisation of digital tampering.
