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Detection of GAN-Generated Fake Images over Social Networks

Marra, Francesco, Gragnaniello, Diego, Cozzolino, Davide, Verdoliva, Luisa·2018·2018 IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR)

Abstract

The diffusion of fake images and videos on social networks is a fast growing problem. Commercial media editing tools allow anyone to remove, add, or clone people and objects, to generate fake images. Many techniques have been proposed to detect such conventional fakes, but new attacks emerge by the day. Image-to-image translation, based on generative adversarial networks (GANs), appears as one of the most dangerous, as it allows one to modify context and semantics of images in a very realistic way. In this paper, we study the performance of several image forgery detectors against image-to-image translation, both in ideal conditions, and in the presence of compression, routinely performed upon uploading on social networks. The study, carried out on a dataset of 36302 images, shows that detection accuracies up to 95% can be achieved by both conventional and deep learning detectors, but only the latter keep providing a high accuracy, up to 89%, on compressed data.

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Authors
Marra, F., Gragnaniello, D., Cozzolino, D., & Verdoliva, L.
Affiliations
University of Naples Federico II (IT)
Venue
2018 IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2018-04
Pages
384-389
OpenAlex
W2811414481
Cited by
399
References
34
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 44 · 2024: 68 · 2023: 59 · 2022: 65 · 2021: 58 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 7
FWCI
10.85
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR) (publishedVersion)
Funders
Air Force Research Laboratory
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Keywords
image forgery detection, GAN-generated images, image-to-image translation, deep learning detector, image compression, deepfakes, media manipulation

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