Virtual Imposters Beware of ‘FakeBuster’

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar in Punjab and Monash University, Australia have developed a unique detector named ‘FakeBuster’ to identify imposters attending a virtual conference without anybody’s knowledge.

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It can also find out faces manipulated on social media to defame or make a joke of someone.

FakeBuster is a DeepFakes Detection Tool for Video Conferencing Scenarios

In the present pandemic scenario when most of the official meetings and work is being done online, this standalone solution enables a user (organizer) to detect if another person’s video is manipulated or spoofed during a video conferencing.

That means the technique will find out if some imposter is attending a Webinar or virtual meeting on behalf of one of your colleagues by morphing his image with his own.