Punjab University Department of Computer Science's Associate Professor Dr. Muhammad Hassan Khan recently presented his latest research at 9th international conference on Multimedia System and Signal Processing held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. This prestigious conference published by ACM and focused on various issues of Multimedia Systems and Signal Processing in which Dr. Khan addressed the significant topic of Deepfakes detection. In his talk, Dr. Khan highlighted the issue of Deepfakes in media industry. Deepfakes are synthetically generated images or videos in which a person’s body parts (e.g., face) are replaced with someone else. Such visual content can be used to easily deceive human beings. Hence, it becomes very difficult to distinguish between the real and the bogus content by having a glimpse of the images. In his research, Dr. Khan has presented a framework to automatically detect the fakeness in digital images. His proposed methodology is based on a simple yet effective deep learning model for the detection of falseness in the images precisely and efficiently.

Dr. Khan thank the Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Khalid Mahmood and Dean Faculty of Computing & Information Technology Prof. Dr. Shahzad Sarwar at University of the Punjab, for their support to conduct this research. This research was partially supported by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan within the NRPU project “HumCare: Human Activity Analysis in Healthcare” (grant number: 15041).