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Exposing GAN-Generated Faces Using Inconsistent Corneal Specular Highlights (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Fake AI-made faces often show tiny light reflections in the two eyes that don't match, because the generator never learned how light really bounces. A simple tool that compares those reflections spotted generated faces reliably in tests.

Abstract · Exposing GAN-generated Faces Using Inconsistent Corneal Specular Highlights

Sophisticated generative adversary network (GAN) models are now able to synthesize highly realistic human faces that are difficult to discern from real ones visually. In this work, we show that GAN synthesized faces can be exposed with the inconsistent corneal specular highlights between two eyes. The inconsistency is caused by the lack of physical/physiological constraints in the GAN models. We show that such artifacts exist widely in high-quality GAN synthesized faces and further describe an automatic method to extract and compare corneal specular highlights from two eyes. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations of our method suggest its simplicity and effectiveness in distinguishing GAN synthesized faces.

Shu Hu, Yuezun Li, Siwei Lyu
arXiv:2009.11924 · cs.CV · submitted Sep 24, 2020 · updated Oct 12, 2020
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