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most citedSocial Media Authentication and Combating Deepfakes using Semi-fragile Invisible Image Watermarking

10 citations · 51 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cs.SD2026

Exploiting Neural Audio Codec Latents for Adversarial Audio Attacks

Sameek Bhattacharya, Bharath Krishnamurthy, Ajita Rattani

Deep learning-based audio classification systems, including automatic speaker verification, are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Realistic real-time threat assessment remains dif…

cs.CV2026

MMFace-DiT: A Dual-Stream Diffusion Transformer for High-Fidelity Multimodal Face Generation

Bharath Krishnamurthy, Ajita Rattani

Recent multimodal face generation models address the spatial control limitations of text-to-image diffusion models by augmenting text-based conditioning with spatial priors such as…

cs.SD2026

VoxMorph: Scalable Zero-shot Voice Identity Morphing via Disentangled Embeddings

Bharath Krishnamurthy, Ajita Rattani

Morphing techniques generate artificial biometric samples that combine features from multiple individuals, allowing each contributor to be verified against a single enrolled templa…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

DAO-GP Drift Aware Online Non-Linear Regression Gaussian-Process

Mohammad Abu-Shaira, Ajita Rattani, Weishi Shi

Real-world datasets often exhibit temporal dynamics characterized by evolving data distributions. Disregarding this phenomenon, commonly referred to as concept drift, can significa…

cs.CR2025

WaveVerify: A Novel Audio Watermarking Framework for Media Authentication and Combatting Deepfakes

Aditya Pujari, Ajita Rattani

The rapid advancement of voice generation technologies has enabled the synthesis of speech that is perceptually indistinguishable from genuine human voices. While these innovations…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

DOOMGAN:High-Fidelity Dynamic Identity Obfuscation Ocular Generative Morphing

Bharath Krishnamurthy, Ajita Rattani

Ocular biometrics in the visible spectrum have emerged as a prominent modality due to their high accuracy, resistance to spoofing, and non-invasive nature. However, morphing attack…

cs.CV2025

Time Frequency Analysis of EMG Signal for Gesture Recognition using Fine grained Features

Parshuram N. Aarotale, Ajita Rattani

Electromyography (EMG) based hand gesture recognition converts forearm muscle activity into control commands for prosthetics, rehabilitation, and human computer interaction. This p…

cs.CV2025★ 6 cited

Unified Face Matching and Physical-Digital Spoofing Attack Detection

Arun Kunwar, Ajita Rattani

Face recognition technology has dramatically transformed the landscape of security, surveillance, and authentication systems, offering a user-friendly and non-invasive biometric so…

cs.LG2024

Machine Learning-based sEMG Signal Classification for Hand Gesture Recognition

Parshuram N. Aarotale, Ajita Rattani

EMG-based hand gesture recognition uses electromyographic~(EMG) signals to interpret and classify hand movements by analyzing electrical activity generated by muscle contractions.…

cs.CV2024★ 10 cited

Social Media Authentication and Combating Deepfakes using Semi-fragile Invisible Image Watermarking

Aakash Varma Nadimpalli, Ajita Rattani

With the significant advances in deep generative models for image and video synthesis, Deepfakes and manipulated media have raised severe societal concerns. Conventional machine le…

cs.CV2024

FineFACE: Fair Facial Attribute Classification Leveraging Fine-grained Features

Ayesha Manzoor, Ajita Rattani

Published research highlights the presence of demographic bias in automated facial attribute classification algorithms, particularly impacting women and individuals with darker ski…

cs.SD2024★ 3 cited

Contextual Cross-Modal Attention for Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection and Localization

Vinaya Sree Katamneni, Ajita Rattani

In the digital age, the emergence of deepfakes and synthetic media presents a significant threat to societal and political integrity. Deepfakes based on multi-modal manipulation, s…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

A Self-Supervised Learning Pipeline for Demographically Fair Facial Attribute Classification

Sreeraj Ramachandran, Ajita Rattani

Published research highlights the presence of demographic bias in automated facial attribute classification. The proposed bias mitigation techniques are mostly based on supervised…

eess.SP2023

Deep Learning Models for Arrhythmia Classification Using Stacked Time-frequency Scalogram Images from ECG Signals

Parshuram N. Aarotale, Ajita Rattani

Electrocardiograms (ECGs), a medical monitoring technology recording cardiac activity, are widely used for diagnosing cardiac arrhythmia. The diagnosis is based on the analysis of…

cs.CV2023

PatchBMI-Net: Lightweight Facial Patch-based Ensemble for BMI Prediction

Parshuram N. Aarotale, Twyla Hill, Ajita Rattani

Due to an alarming trend related to obesity affecting 93.3 million adults in the United States alone, body mass index (BMI) and body weight have drawn significant interest in vario…

cs.CV2023

MIS-AVoiDD: Modality Invariant and Specific Representation for Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection

Vinaya Sree Katamneni, Ajita Rattani

Deepfakes are synthetic media generated using deep generative algorithms and have posed a severe societal and political threat. Apart from facial manipulation and synthetic voice,…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Facial Forgery-based Deepfake Detection using Fine-Grained Features

Aakash Varma Nadimpalli, Ajita Rattani

Facial forgery by deepfakes has caused major security risks and raised severe societal concerns. As a countermeasure, a number of deepfake detection methods have been proposed. Mos…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Is Facial Recognition Biased at Near-Infrared Spectrum As Well?

Anoop Krishnan, Brian Neas, Ajita Rattani

Published academic research and media articles suggest face recognition is biased across demographics. Specifically, unequal performance is obtained for women, dark-skinned people,…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Deep Generative Views to Mitigate Gender Classification Bias Across Gender-Race Groups

Sreeraj Ramachandran, Ajita Rattani

Published studies have suggested the bias of automated face-based gender classification algorithms across gender-race groups. Specifically, unequal accuracy rates were obtained for…

cs.CV2022★ 10 cited

GBDF: Gender Balanced DeepFake Dataset Towards Fair DeepFake Detection

Aakash Varma Nadimpalli, Ajita Rattani

Facial forgery by deepfakes has raised severe societal concerns. Several solutions have been proposed by the vision community to effectively combat the misinformation on the intern…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

An Examination of Bias of Facial Analysis based BMI Prediction Models

Hera Siddiqui, Ajita Rattani, Karl Ricanek +1

Obesity is one of the most important public health problems that the world is facing today. A recent trend is in the development of intervention tools that predict BMI using facial…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

On Improving Cross-dataset Generalization of Deepfake Detectors

Aakash Varma Nadimpalli, Ajita Rattani

Facial manipulation by deep fake has caused major security risks and raised severe societal concerns. As a countermeasure, a number of deep fake detection methods have been propose…

cs.CV2021

Compact CNN Models for On-device Ocular-based User Recognition in Mobile Devices

Ali Almadan, Ajita Rattani

A number of studies have demonstrated the efficacy of deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN) models for ocular-based user recognition in mobile devices. However, these hi…

cs.CV2021

Harnessing Unlabeled Data to Improve Generalization of Biometric Gender and Age Classifiers

Aakash Varma Nadimpalli, Narsi Reddy, Sreeraj Ramachandran +1

With significant advances in deep learning, many computer vision applications have reached the inflection point. However, these deep learning models need large amount of labeled da…