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most citedFakeCatcher: Detection of Synthetic Portrait Videos using Biological Signals

507 citations · 576 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.AI2025

Is It Certainly a Deepfake? Reliability Analysis in Detection & Generation Ecosystem

Neslihan Kose, Anthony Rhodes, Umur Aybars Ciftci +1

As generative models are advancing in quality and quantity for creating synthetic content, deepfakes begin to cause online mistrust. Deepfake detectors are proposed to counter this…

cs.CV2024

My Body My Choice: Human-Centric Full-Body Anonymization

Umur Aybars Ciftci, Ali Kemal Tanriverdi, Ilke Demir

In an era of increasing privacy concerns for our online presence, we propose that the decision to appear in a piece of content should only belong to the owner of the body. Although…

cs.CV2023

My Art My Choice: Adversarial Protection Against Unruly AI

Anthony Rhodes, Ram Bhagat, Umur Aybars Ciftci +1

Generative AI is on the rise, enabling everyone to produce realistic content via publicly available interfaces. Especially for guided image generation, diffusion models are changin…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

How Do Deepfakes Move? Motion Magnification for Deepfake Source Detection

Umur Aybars Ciftci, Ilke Demir

With the proliferation of deep generative models, deepfakes are improving in quality and quantity everyday. However, there are subtle authenticity signals in pristine videos, not r…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

My Face My Choice: Privacy Enhancing Deepfakes for Social Media Anonymization

Umur A. Ciftci, Gokturk Yuksek, Ilke Demir

Recently, productization of face recognition and identification algorithms have become the most controversial topic about ethical AI. As new policies around digital identities are…

cs.CV2021

MixSyn: Learning Composition and Style for Multi-Source Image Synthesis

Ilke Demir, Umur A. Ciftci

Synthetic images created by generative models increase in quality and expressiveness as newer models utilize larger datasets and novel architectures. Although this photorealism is…

cs.CY2021

The First Vision For Vitals (V4V) Challenge for Non-Contact Video-Based Physiological Estimation

Ambareesh Revanur, Zhihua Li, Umur A. Ciftci +2

Telehealth has the potential to offset the high demand for help during public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) - the problem of…

cs.CV2021★ 54 cited

Where Do Deep Fakes Look? Synthetic Face Detection via Gaze Tracking

Ilke Demir, Umur A. Ciftci

Following the recent initiatives for the democratization of AI, deep fake generators have become increasingly popular and accessible, causing dystopian scenarios towards social ero…

cs.CV2020★ 10 cited

How Do the Hearts of Deep Fakes Beat? Deep Fake Source Detection via Interpreting Residuals with Biological Signals

Umur Aybars Ciftci, Ilke Demir, Lijun Yin

Fake portrait video generation techniques have been posing a new threat to the society with photorealistic deep fakes for political propaganda, celebrity imitation, forged evidence…

cs.CV2019★ 507 cited

FakeCatcher: Detection of Synthetic Portrait Videos using Biological Signals

Umur Aybars Ciftci, Ilke Demir

The recent proliferation of fake portrait videos poses direct threats on society, law, and privacy. Believing the fake video of a politician, distributing fake pornographic content…