Adobe research detects facial manipulations in Photoshop
Adobe has released information about recent research work that attempts to detect edits to images that were made using Photoshop’s Face Aware Liquify feature. According to the post, the research is initiated by a need to “Trust in what we see” as it is “increasingly important in a world where image editing has become ubiquitous – fake content is a serious and increasingly pressing issue.”
The article goes on to explain that the research forms a part of a “broader effort across Adobe to better detect image, video, audio and document manipulations. Past Adobe research focused on image manipulation detection from splicing, cloning, and removal, whereas this effort focuses on the Face Aware Liquify feature in Photoshop because it’s popular for adjusting facial features, including making adjustments to facial expressions. The feature’s effects can be delicate which made it an intriguing test case for detecting both drastic and subtle alterations to faces.”
Read the article in full on Adobe’s blog.