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Enhancing Explainability and Performance in AI-Driven Face Recognition and Deepfake Detection

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has greatly influenced numerous research areas, leading to significant breakthroughs in human face-related technologies, particularly in face recognition and deepfake detection. While offering substanti ...

EPFL2024

Cross-resolution Face Recognition via Identity-Preserving Network and Knowledge Distillation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Cross-resolution face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern deep face recognition systems. It aims at matching a low-resolution probe image with high-resolution gallery images registered in a database. Existing methods mainly leverage pri ...

2023

XAIface: a framework and toolkit for explainable face recognition

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Artificial intelligence-based face recognition solutions are becoming increasingly popular. Therefore, it is crucial to fully understand and explain how these technologies work in order to make them more effective and acceptable to society. This is the goa ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Assessment framework for deepfake detection in real-world situations

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Detecting digital face manipulation in images and video has attracted extensive attention due to the potential risk to public trust. To counteract the malicious usage of such techniques, deep learning-based deepfake detection methods have been employed and ...

2024

A novel assessment framework for learning-based deepfake detectors in realistic conditions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Detecting manipulations in facial images and video has become an increasingly popular topic in media forensics community. At the same time, deep convolutional neural networks have achieved exceptional results on deepfake detection tasks. Despite the remark ...

2022

Impact of Video Processing Operations in Deepfake Detection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

The detection of digital face manipulation in video has attracted extensive attention due to the increased risk to public trust. To counteract the malicious usage of such techniques, deep learning-based deepfake detection methods have been developed and ha ...

2023

Improving Perturbation-based Explanation Methods with Application to Face Recognition

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

In recent years, significant advancements in face recognition have been witnessed thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Despite remarkable performance, predictions made by such techniques tend to be challenging to explain. Considering ...

2024

Pose-Invariant Face Recognition via Feature-Space Pose Frontalization

Nikolay Georgiev Stanishev, Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Pose-invariant face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern AI-based face recognition systems. It aims at matching a profile face captured in the wild with a frontal face registered in a database. Existing methods perform face frontalizatio ...

IEEE2025

Explanation of Face Recognition via Saliency Maps

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Despite the significant progress in recent years, deep face recognition is often treated as a "black box" and has been criticized for lacking explainability. It becomes increasingly important to understand the characteristics and decisions of deep face rec ...

2023

Towards the Detection of AI-Synthesized Human Face Images

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Over the past years, image generation and manipulation have achieved remarkable progress due to the rapid development of generative AI based on deep learning. Recent studies have devoted significant efforts to address the problem of face image manipulation ...

2024

Discriminative Deep Feature Visualization for Explainable Face Recognition

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Despite the huge success of deep convolutional neural networks in face recognition (FR) tasks, current methods lack explainability for their predictions because of their ``black-box'' nature. In recent years, studies have been carried out to give an interp ...

2023

A Novel Framework for Assessment of Deep Face Recognition Systems in Realistic Conditions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Deep convolutional neural networks have shown remarkable results on face recognition (FR). Despite their significant progress, the performance of current face recognition techniques is often assessed in benchmarks under not always realistic conditions. The ...

2022

Improving Deepfake Detectors against Real-world Perturbations with Amplitude-Phase Switch Augmentation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

In recent years, the remarkable progress in facial manipulation techniques has raised social concerns due to their potential malicious usage and has received considerable attention from both industry and academia. While current deep learning-based face for ...

2023

Towards Visual Saliency Explanations of Face Verification

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

In the past years, deep convolutional neural networks have been pushing the frontier of face recognition (FR) techniques in both verification and identification scenarios. Despite the high accuracy, they are often criticized for lacking explainability. The ...

2024