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Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop (2019) (arxiv.org)
12 points by dgellow on Oct 5, 2021 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: A detector learns to spot faces stretched or reshaped in Photoshop by training only on fakes a script creates automatically inside the editing program. It beats people at telling real from warped faces, and can point to the edit and sometimes restore the original.

Abstract · Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop

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.

Sheng-Yu Wang, Oliver Wang, Andrew Owens, Richard Zhang, Alexei A. Efros
arXiv:1906.05856 · cs.CV · submitted Jun 13, 2019 · updated Sep 5, 2019
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Might be nice to have an 'un-shop' filter based on this or similar technology to give to a young person who feels depressed after comparing their own looks to the people they see on Instagram.