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Adobe AI Prototype Tool Can Spot Photoshopped Faces

Adobe AI Prototype Tool Can Spot Photoshopped Faces

Today, there are many apps out there one can use to retouch pictures and refine them to perfection, like the exemplary graphics editing program Photoshop which not only makes it possible to correct facial flaws but also has the capability to create images from scratch. Hence, it is getting increasingly difficult to trust the content we consume given the way fake images and videos are on the rise.

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Adobe, the epitome of all editing programs, has the same concerns and is committing more resources to counter the problem. In collaboration with scientists from UC Berkeley, the computer software company is creating a tool that can detect manipulations done to facial features using Adobe Photoshop. The program has an AI tool that scans the images for any alterations in the face shape and expressions.

The research was centered around spot edits made by Photoshop’s Liquify tool which specializes in bringing out delicate effects one can’t normally figure out. The feature allows the user to push and pull pixels the way one likes.

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The creation of the software involved a neural network trained on a database of paired faces with pictures, before and after the edits made by the Liquify tool. These were then sampled by human volunteers, who got the right answers, only 53 percent of the time. But when the pictures were a part of the algorithm, the results were striking as the AI tool was correct, 99 per cent of the time.

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Additionally, the tool spotted manipulated images, ans was also able to identify the specific areas where the images may have been edited. It allowed the user to revert back to the original state of the edited image.

As of now, Adobe does not plan to commercialize the prototype. But, it is a great effort against the threat of fake content and the dangers that it poses to the culture. More research in this area can offer us sophistical tools to detect complex body manipulations in the future.

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