Today, Reddit updated its policies about impersonation to no longer allow impersonation of an individual or entity in a misleading or deceptive manner. That means the new policies won’t just affect things like misleadingly altered videos (like deepfakes), but could…
ID R&D’s facial liveness detection solution, IDLive Face v1.9 passed Level 1 Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) testing by iBeta with a perfect PAD score, which now makes it compliant with ISO/IEC 30107-3, the company announced at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. “As…
A recently granted U.S. patent links facial recognition, liveness detection and cloud computing. In June 2018, a secretive licensing startup called Brivas (Biometric Relative Identity Verified Authentication System) applied for its sixth patent related to liveness techniques. In the application,…
Microsoft Research in partnership with Peking University has published two academic papers discussing a concept for face-swapping artificial intelligence and face forgery detection technology: FaceShifter and Face X-Ray “a framework for high-fidelity and occlusion-aware face swapping and a representation for detecting forged face images,…
ByteDance, the owner company of TikTok, has started work on creating a new feature. With its help, users will be able to create fake videos with their own face, so-called “deepfake”. Mention of the option was found in the code…
I learned a lot from creating my own deepfake video. Deepfake technology uses deep neural networks to convincingly replace one face with another in a video. The technology has obvious potential for abuse and is becoming ever more widely accessible.…
Researchers Insights included in the number of cyber threats in 2020 Research company IntSights has published a list of the most significant cyber threats of the coming year. Experts believe that on the eve of the us presidential election, the…
Abstract In this work, we propose a novel two-stage framework, called FaceShifter, for high fidelity and occlusion aware face swapping. Unlike many existing face swapping works that leverage only limited information from the target image when synthesizing the swapped face,…
The company, owned by Google’s parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones. A doctored, phony image of President Barack Obama shaking hands with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran. A real photograph of a Muslim…
Deepfake detection tech would by stimulated by bill requiring NSF to hold prize competitions On December 20, President Donald Trump signed into the law the historic $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020, which contains a provision that…