Adobe uses AI to detect photoshopped photos

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As is widely known, Adobe's software has been used for years as a tool for creating fake photos. The company is now developing software to fight photo manipulation. Adobe is using AI (Artificial Intelligence) to detect photo manipulation. This is intended to increase trust and authenticity in digital media!

Besides using Photoshop for good things, some people use these powerful tools to piece together fake photos for misleading purposes, Adobe writes.

In addition to creating new possibilities and features for making digital media, Adobe is now also exploring the limits of what is possible with new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to increase trust and authenticity in digital media.

Adobe researcher Vlad Morariu has worked on the challenge of detecting image manipulation as part of the government-sponsored DARPA Media Forensics programme.

There are already tools that can help recognise manipulation. Things such as metadata and programmes that examine characteristics of photos, for example noise, edges, exposure and pixels.

Artificial intelligence technology can take this to the next level. AI can help make fake photo detection easier, faster, more reliable and more informative.

In a new article entitled Learning Rich Features for Image Manipulation Detection, Morariu describes how Adobe uses AI for this purpose.

The team focused on three general techniques for image manipulation: splicing (combining parts of two photos), copy-move (moving or cloning objects in a photo from one place to another), and removal (removing objects from photos and filling in the gaps, such as with Content-Aware Fill).

Each of these techniques tends to leave certain artefacts behind, such as strong contrast edges, deliberately smoothed areas or different noise patterns.

Using tens of thousands of examples of known, manipulated images, they successfully trained a deep neural network to recognise image manipulation.

AI can help identify how and where a photo was manipulated in just a few seconds.

These technologies will only complement, not replace, the traditional means of establishing "trust" in photojournalism! The Associated Press and other news organisations publish guidelines for digitally editing photos appropriately for news media.

The role Adobe can play here is to develop technology that only helps protect and verify that authenticity as part of the entire process.

It is of course important to develop these new technologies, but ultimately they are created in the service of society. We will therefore also have to share the responsibility for addressing the possible negative effects of these new technologies with our social institutions and conventions.

Source: PetaPixel

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