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May 3, 2022


NEW METHOD DETECTS DEEPFAKE VIDEOS WITH UP TO 99% ACCURACY

Two-pronged technique detects manipulated facial expressions and identity swaps


Author: Holly Ober
May 3, 2022
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Computer scientists at UC Riverside can detect manipulated facial expressions in
deepfake videos with higher accuracy than current state-of-the-art methods. The
method also works as well as current methods in cases where the facial identity,
but not the expression, has been swapped, leading to a generalized approach to
detect any kind of facial manipulation. The achievement brings researchers a
step closer to developing automated tools for detecting manipulated videos that
contain propaganda or misinformation.

Developments in video editing software have made it easy to exchange the face of
one person for another and alter the expressions on original faces. As
unscrupulous leaders and individuals deploy manipulated videos to sway political
or social opinions, the ability to identify these videos is considered by many
essential to protecting free democracies. Methods exist that can detect with
reasonable accuracy when faces have been swapped. But identifying faces where
only the expressions have been changed is more difficult and to date, no
reliable technique exists.

“What makes the deepfake research area more challenging is the competition
between the creation and detection and prevention of deepfakes which will become
increasingly fierce in the future. With more advances in generative models,
deepfakes will be easier to synthesize and harder to distinguish from real,”
said paper co-author Amit Roy-Chowdhury, a Bourns College of Engineering
professor of electrical and computer engineering.




First and second columns show the original im- ages and manipulated ones
respectively. The black and white images in the third column are corresponding
bi- nary GT masks. Predicted masks (column 4) and generated CAMs (column 5) for
manipulated images from Face2Face (row 1,2,3) and Neural-Textures (row 4,5,6)
dataset. (Mazaheri & Roy-Chowdhury, 2022)

The UC Riverside method divides the task into two components within a deep
neural network. The first branch discerns facial expressions and feeds
information about the regions that contain the expression, such as the mouth,
eyes, or forehead, into a second branch, known as an encoder-decoder. The
encoder-decoder architecture is responsible for manipulation detection and
localization.

The framework, called Expression Manipulation Detection, or EMD, can both detect
and localize the specific regions within an image that have been altered.

“Multi-task learning can leverage prominent features learned by facial
expression recognition systems to benefit the training of conventional
manipulation detection systems. Such an approach achieves impressive performance
in facial expression manipulation detection,” said doctoral student Ghazal
Mazaheri, who led the research.

The benchmark datasets for facial manipulation are based on expression and
identity swap.  One transfers the expressions of a source video onto a target
video without changing the identity of the person in the target video. The other
swaps two identities in a single video.  

Experiments on two challenging facial manipulation datasets show EMD has better
performance in detection of not only facial expression manipulations but also
identity swaps. EMD accurately detected 99% of the manipulated videos.

The paper, “Detection and Localization of Facial Expression Manipulations,” was
presented at the 2022 Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision and
is available here.

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