Fighting Deepfake
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Deepfake phenomenon has become very popular nowadays due to the possibility to create incredibly realistic images, videos and audio using deep learning tools, mainly based on ad-hoc Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). The illicit use of these technologies (for example in the pornography industry) is increasing day by day, creating several problems in people's lives, spreading misinformation, political problems and many others. The goal of this research will be to create new sophisticated deepfake detection algorithms able to detect those forensic traces hidden in images and videos, a sort of fingerprint left in the synthetic multimedia data by the GAN engine generation process.










2024

Mirko Casu, Luca Guarnera, Pasquale Caponnetto, Sebastiano Battiato (2024). GenAI Mirage: The Impostor Bias and the Deepfake Detection Challenge in the Era of Artificial Illusions. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation.
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Orazio Pontorno, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato (2024). On the Exploitation of DCT-Traces in the Generative-AI Domain. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
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Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato (2024). Mastering Deepfake Detection: A Cutting-Edge Approach to Distinguish GAN and Diffusion-Model Images. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
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Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato (2024). Level up the deepfake detection: a method to effectively discriminate images generated by gan architectures and diffusion models. Proceedings of the 2024 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys). Springer Nature.
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Luca Guarnera, Salvatore Manganello, Sebastiano Battiato (2024). Improving Video Deepfake Detection: A DCT-Based Approach with Patch-Level Analysis. IS and T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology.
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2023

Roberto Leotta, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato (2023). Not with my name! Inferring artists names of input strings employed by Diffusion Models. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing. Springer, Cham.
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2022

Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Francesco Guarnera, Alessandro Ortis, Giovanni Puglisi, Antonino Paratore, Linh M. Q. Bui, Marco Fontani, Davide Alessandro Coccomini, Roberto Caldelli, Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro, Nicola Messina, Giuseppe Amato, Gianpaolo Perelli, Sara Concas, Carlo Cuccu, Giulia Orrù, Gian Luca Marcialis, and Sebastiano Battiato (2022). The Face Deepfake Detection Challenge Journal of Imaging. 2022, 8(10):263. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8100263
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Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Matthias Niessner, Sebastiano Battiato (2022). On the Exploitation of Deepfake Model Recognition In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, pp. 61-70.
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Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato (2022). Deepfake Style Transfer Mixture: a First Forensic Ballistics Study on Synthetic Images. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (pp. 151-163). Springer, Cham.
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Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato (2022). Fenomenologia dei Deepfake: aspetti teorici e operativi per la detection di volti umani “artificiali” Volume: 'Nuove questioni di Informatica forense'. Casa editrice: Aracne
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2021

Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato (2021). Fighting deepfakes by detecting GAN DCT anomalies. Journal of Imaging. 2021, 7(8):128
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Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Cristina Nastasi (2021). Analisi Forense di Immagini Deepfake di Volti di Persone. International Information System Forensics Association (IISFA).
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2020

Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato (2020). Fighting Deepfake by Exposing the Convolutional Traces on Images. IEEE Access, 8, 165085-165098.
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Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato (2020). DeepFake Detection by Analyzing Convolutional Traces. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, pp. 666–667.
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Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Cristina Nastasi, Sebastiano Battiato (2020). Preliminary Forensics Analysis of DeepFake Images. In Proceedings of 2020 AEIT international annual conference (AEIT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE
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