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Eyes Tell All: Irregular Pupil Shapes Reveal GAN-Generated Faces (arxiv.org)
2 points by todsacerdoti on Sep 16, 2021 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Fake AI-made faces often have oddly shaped pupils because the generator does not follow real eye anatomy. A tool that pulls the pupils from both eyes and checks their outlines spots these fakes that people cannot tell apart by looking.

Abstract · Eyes Tell All: Irregular Pupil Shapes Reveal GAN-generated Faces

Generative adversary network (GAN) generated high-realistic human faces have been used as profile images for fake social media accounts and are visually challenging to discern from real ones. In this work, we show that GAN-generated faces can be exposed via irregular pupil shapes. This phenomenon is caused by the lack of physiological constraints in the GAN models. We demonstrate that such artifacts exist widely in high-quality GAN-generated faces and further describe an automatic method to extract the pupils from two eyes and analysis their shapes for exposing the GAN-generated faces. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations of our method suggest its simplicity and effectiveness in distinguishing GAN-generated faces.

Hui Guo, Shu Hu, Xin Wang, Ming-Ching Chang, Siwei Lyu
arXiv:2109.00162 · cs.CV · submitted Sep 1, 2021 · updated May 31, 2022
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