A Deepfake Image Classifier System for real and Doctored Image Differentiation
Juanith Mathew Thomas, V. Ebenezer, Rohan Paul Richard · 2024
The sudden proliferation of deepfake technology has raised concerns about the authenticity and integrity of digital media. In response to these concerns, this paper presents a Deepfake image classifier system designed to differentiate between real and doctored images using "MesoNet" architecture which utilizes convolutional layers and builds a suitable neural network for classification. Making efficient use of Deep Learning strategies, this system aims to detect subtle manipulations indicative of deepfake alterations. The proposed model is trained on two distinct datasets: Dataset I comprises authentic images while Dataset II consists of images subjected to various levels of manipulation, making them deepfakes. Through extensive training using these images and their labels, we’ll train the neural network to adequately predict the authenticity of an image. The model has been trained on exactly 7104 images and judging from the results, the predictions made by the model are fairly accurate. Results yield an accuracy of 88.81% and a precision of 87.93%.