But the most damning evidence came from the Noise Consistency Map . The camera sensor noise in the background was uniform and natural. The face, however, had no noise pattern at all — meaning it had likely been generated by an older AI model or copied from a highly compressed social media selfie.

From then on, every manipulated image they encountered — deepfakes, doctored evidence, fake news — met the same fate. Excire didn’t just find forgeries. It restored trust in the one thing investigators needed most: a true picture of reality.

Excire is a plugin (for Lightroom) and a standalone application (Excire Photo) designed to solve the problem of photo organization. It uses Deep Learning algorithms to "look" at photos and tag them automatically based on content (e.g., "beach," "sunset," "person smiling").

Standard forensic imaging procedures apply (e.g., using FTK Imager or EnCase).