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Pradeep Kumar

20/05/21 09:25 AM IST

‘FakeBuster’

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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.

Significance and working
  • It can also find out faces manipulated on social media to defame or make a joke of someone.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • This software platform is independent of video conferencing solutions and has been tested with Zoom and Skype applications.
  • The Deepfake detection tool-‘FakeBuster’ works in both online and offline modes. 
  • ‘FakeBuster’ is one of the first tools to detect imposters during live video conferencing using DeepFake detection technology. 
Source: PIB

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