Blurred line between deepfakes and reality opens door to invasive fraud
Fraud mutates on the daily. Like a festering mold or a parasitic fungus, it throbs and grows, finding new corners…
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Potential for deepfake audio, video to warp reality is building to crisis level
Persona has published its fraud insights for the first quarter of 2025, and deepfakes take the headline. “The deepfake fight…
Super-recognizers can’t help with deepfakes, but deepfakes can help with algorithms
Deepfake faces are beyond even the ability of super-recognizers to identify consistently, with some sobering implications, but also a few…
New Persona release helps businesses detect AI-based face spoofs
Persona has announced “significant enhancements” in its AI-based face spoof detection capabilities, which a company blog says apply a more…
Innovations in deepfake detection can’t come fast enough
From new studies of voice deepfakes to developing innovative ways to tell a fake face from the reflection in the…
Digi2Real dataset applies ‘realism enhancement’ to synthetic face data
Facial recognition systems have an endless appetite for training data. But using real people’s faces without their consent raises ethical…
Synthetic aging helps facial recognition algorithms navigate age gaps, says new paper
The question of aging is a particularly tough nugget for legislators to chew on when considering facial recognition or face…
Researchers develop model to maintain identity in generated faces
Imperial College London researchers have developed Arc2Face, an advanced computer model that generates realistic images of human faces. What sets…
Synthetic data model shows promise for biometric bias mitigation
The limitations of real-world biometric training datasets, including the introduction of bias through unbalanced demographic representation, are well established. Synthetic…
Humans more likely to notice fakes among familiar faces, research suggests
Deepfakes and synthetic data, and how they impact biometric systems was the focus of the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory Annual Workshop…
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