IIT Ropar develop ‘FakeBuster’ tool to detect imposters in video conferences & manipulated Faces on social media

Current GK ( Master) Science & Technology

The Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT-Ropar) in Punjab has developed a unique detector named ‘FakeBuster’, that would be helpful to identify and prevent imposters from attending video conferencing and manipulated faces on social media.
The tool has been developed by IIT Ropar in partnership with Australia based Monash University.
‘FakeBuster’ will detect imposters attending a virtual conference without anybody’s knowledge.
In the present pandemic scenario, most of the official meetings and work is being done online. The new solution would enable organizer to detect if another person’s video is manipulated or spoofed during a video conference. In simple terms, the technique will find out if some imposter is attending a webinar or virtual meeting on behalf of a colleague by morphing his image with his own.
‘FakeBuster’ will also help to find out faces manipulated on social media to defame or make joke of someone.