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Most Deepfake Videos Have One Glaring Flaw: A Lack of Blinking

posted by chromas on Sunday June 17 2018, @02:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-can-tell-by-the-pixels dept.

MrPlow writes:

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The rate at which deepfake videos are advancing is both impressive and deeply unsettling. But researchers have described a new method for detecting a "telltale sign" of these manipulated videos, which map one person's face onto the body of another. It's a flaw even the average person would notice: a lack of blinking.

Researchers from the University at Albany, SUNY's computer science department recently published a paper titled "In Ictu Oculi: Exposing AI Generated Fake Face Videos by Detecting Eye Blinking." The paper details how they combined two neural networks to more effectively expose synthesized face videos, which often overlook "spontaneous and involuntary physiological activities such as breathing, pulse and eye movement."

Source: https://gizmodo.com/most-deepfake-videos-have-one-glaring-flaw-1826869949

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 17 2018, @05:05AM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday June 17 2018, @05:05AM (#694152) Journal

    Most training datasets fed to neural networks don’t include closed-eye photos, as photos of people posted online generally depict their eyes open. That’s consequential, given someone needs to collect plenty of photos of an individual in order to create a deepfake of them, and this can be done through an open-source photo-scraping tool which grabs publicly available photos of the target online.

    As long as you match the skin color, pretty much anyone's eyelids could do.

    This is a minor blip in Deepfakes' great long journey, which is only beginning. The hardware will get at least an order of magnitude better, and the software will improve as well.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @05:47AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @05:47AM (#694163)

    Can they help with plot-lines?

    Actually, the ultimate would be to create Deepfake versions of real movies but with sex scenes added. Basically, porn parodies but with the original cast.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @12:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @12:27PM (#694220)

      The Cosby Show will never be the same again.