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arXiv:1906.05856cs.CV

Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop

Sheng-Yu Wang, Oliver Wang, Andrew Owens, Richard Zhang, Alexei A. Efros

Abstract

Most malicious photo manipulations are created using standard image editing tools, such as Adobe Photoshop. We present a method for detecting one very popular Photoshop manipulation -- image warping applied to human faces -- using a model trained entirely using fake images that were automatically generated by scripting Photoshop itself. We show that our model outperforms humans at the task of recognizing manipulated images, can predict the specific location of edits, and in some cases can be used to "undo" a manipulation to reconstruct the original, unedited image. We demonstrate that the system can be successfully applied to real, artist-created image manipulations.

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cs.CVComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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  1. AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head 1 comment

    • IANAL, but I think trademarks only give the right to prohibit commercial passing-off, not any uses. For example, this is exactly what Adobe says not to do, but it's still up: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05856

      ben_wView on HNParent context

  2. AI Tool Reveals How Celebrities’ Faces Have Been Photoshopped 1 comment

    • Actual source paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05856.pdf It's done using an ML model. The thing is, I don't understand what signal it's using to determine whether the Liquify tool in Photoshop has been used. And from skimming the paper, I'm not sure the authors know either. But…

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