C-14: assured timestamps for drone videos

Authors: Zhipeng Tang, Fabien Delattre, Pia Bideau, Mark D. Corner, Erik G. Learned-Miller

Abstract

Inexpensive and highly capable unmanned aerial vehicles (aka drones) have enabled people to contribute high-quality videos at a global scale. However, a key challenge exists for accepting videos from untrusted sources: establishing when a particular video was taken. Once a video has been received or posted publicly, it is evident that the video was created before that time, but there are no current methods for establishing how long it was made before that time.

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