CHIEFS: Corneal-Specular Highlights Imaging for Enhancing Fake-Face Spotter

Muhammad Mohzary, Khalid Almalki, Baek Young Choi, Sejun Song

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel Machine Learning (ML)-based DeepFake detection technology named CHIEFS (Corneal-Specular Highlights Imaging for Enhancing Fake-Face Spotter). We focus on the most reflective area of a human face, the eyes, upon the hypothesis that the existing DeepFake creation methods fail to coordinate their counterfeits with the reflective components. In addition to the traditional checking of the reflection shape similarity (RSS), we detect various corneal-specular highlights features, such as color components and textures, to find corneal-specular highlights consistency (CHC). Furthermore, we inspect the ensemble of the highlights with the surrounding environmental factors (SEF), including the light settings, directions, and strength. We designed and built them as modular features and have conducted extensive experiments with different combinations of the components using various input parameters and Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures on Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based DeepFake datasets. The empirical results show that CHIEFS with three modules improves the accuracy from 86.05% (with the RSS alone) to 99.00% with the ResNet-50-V2 architecture.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationFoundations and Practice of Security - 15th International Symposium, FPS 2022, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsGuy-Vincent Jourdan, Laurent Mounier, Carlisle Adams, Florence Sèdes, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages158-172
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783031301216
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2022 - Ottawa, Canada
Duration: Dec 12 2022Dec 14 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13877 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityOttawa
Period12/12/2212/14/22

Keywords

  • Corneal-Specular Highlights
  • DeepFake
  • DeepFake Detection
  • Digital Media Forensics
  • Media Manipulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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