{"id":17784,"date":"2019-09-02T18:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=17784"},"modified":"2019-09-03T08:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:22:52","slug":"examining-a-videos-changes-over-time-helps-flag-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/examining-a-videos-changes-over-time-helps-flag-deepfakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining a video’s changes over time helps flag deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wael Abd-Almageed<\/a>, University of Southern California<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It used to be that only Hollywood production companies with deep pockets and teams of skilled artists and technicians could make deepfake videos, realistic fabrications appearing to show people doing and saying things they never actually did or said. Not anymore \u2013 software freely available online lets anyone with a computer and some time on their hands create convincing fake videos.<\/p>\n

Whether used for personal revenge, to harass celebrities or to influence public opinion, deepfakes render untrue the age-old axiom that \u201cseeing is believing.\u201d<\/p>\n

My research team<\/a> and I<\/a> at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute are developing ways to tell the difference between realistic-looking fakes and genuine videos that show actual events as they happened. Our recent research has found a new and apparently more accurate way<\/a> to detect deepfake videos.<\/p>\n