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Detecting GAN-generated Imagery using Color Cues

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arxiv 1812.08247 v1 pith:OOXG5UQY submitted 2018-12-19 cs.CV

Detecting GAN-generated Imagery using Color Cues

classification cs.CV
keywords imagerycamerarealcolorcuesgan-generatedgansnetwork
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Image forensics is an increasingly relevant problem, as it can potentially address online disinformation campaigns and mitigate problematic aspects of social media. Of particular interest, given its recent successes, is the detection of imagery produced by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), e.g. `deepfakes'. Leveraging large training sets and extensive computing resources, recent work has shown that GANs can be trained to generate synthetic imagery which is (in some ways) indistinguishable from real imagery. We analyze the structure of the generating network of a popular GAN implementation, and show that the network's treatment of color is markedly different from a real camera in two ways. We further show that these two cues can be used to distinguish GAN-generated imagery from camera imagery, demonstrating effective discrimination between GAN imagery and real camera images used to train the GAN.

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