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To Uncover a Deepfake Video Call, Ask the Caller to Turn Sideways
There is an interesting vulnerability in video deepfakes that, to date, has been generally overlooked by the security research community, perhaps because 'live', real-time deepfakes in video calls have...
Defeating Deepfaked Video Calls by Monitoring Electrical Fluctuations
2022 has seen the emergence of 'live' deepfakes in videoconferencing as an acknowledged security threat. In June, the FBI issued a warning to businesses about the increasing use of...
The Future of Generative Adversarial Networks in Deepfakes
Excluding 'traditional' CGI methods, which date back to the 1970s, there are currently three mainstream AI-based approaches to creating synthetic human faces, only one of which has attained any...
How I Became The Fake Tom Cruise
Actor Miles Fisher had it all: talent, charm, and the face of a movie star. Problem was, it was a particular movie star. After years of resenting the resemblance,...
Deepfakes Go High-Res – But Can Deepfakers Handle It?
Towards the end of our new feature on the future of autoencoder-based deepfakes, we preview a new capability in FaceSwap, set for release this Saturday...
The Future of Autoencoder-Based Deepfakes
The way we refer to visual effects (VFX) work may be changing soon. For instance, at the time of writing, the relatively new technology of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)...
NeRF: An Eventual Successor for Deepfakes?
A recent study from Lancaster University found not only that most people cannot distinguish deepfake faces from real faces, but also that we tend to trust synthesized faces more....
Synthetic 101 – VR as an extension to normal life
This is another point on a road that is leading to VR experiences being as realistic as the real world. To be truly immersive, VR needs to be a...
