Sunday, April 15, 2012

Audio Forensics


How to use variations in the frequency of the electrical grid to date audio

recordings. The graph at top shows the Electric Network Frequency (ENF)

extracted from a one-hour (3,600-second) recording to be used as evidence.

The middle graph depicts the computer-determined correlation between

the variations of the evidentiary ENF (red) and the ENF variations for the USA

West grid for the twenty-four hours of 14 February 2011 (86,400 seconds)

as archived by the National Center for Media Forensics (black). The bottom

graph shows an enlarged view of the matching portion of the middle graph

(the red line should lie precisely on the black line, but has been shifted here

for the sake of visual clarity). The recording is thus dated to the second on

the day in question. Courtesy Catalin Grigoras.

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