Search Results for author: Sebastiano Battiato

Found 36 papers, 8 papers with code

On the exploitation of DCT statistics for cropping detectors

no code implementations21 Mar 2024 Claudio Vittorio Ragaglia, Francesco Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato

In this work, we investigated a novel image resolution classifier that employs DCT statistics with the goal to detect the original resolution of images; in particular the insight was exploited to address the challenge of identifying cropped images.

On the Exploitation of DCT-Traces in the Generative-AI Domain

no code implementations3 Feb 2024 Orazio Pontorno, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato

Deepfakes represent one of the toughest challenges in the world of Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics, especially considering the high-quality results obtained with recent generative AI-based solutions.

Face Swapping

MITS-GAN: Safeguarding Medical Imaging from Tampering with Generative Adversarial Networks

1 code implementation17 Jan 2024 Giovanni Pasqualino, Luca Guarnera, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato

The progress in generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), opened new possibilities for image generation but raised concerns about potential malicious uses, especially in sensitive areas like medical imaging.

Image Generation

A Novel Dataset for Non-Destructive Inspection of Handwritten Documents

no code implementations9 Jan 2024 Eleonora Breci, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato

Preliminary results on the proposed datasets show that 90% classification accuracy can be achieved on the first subset (documents written on both paper and pen and later digitized and on tablets) and 96% on the second portion of the data.

AI Mirage: The Impostor Bias and the Deepfake Detection Challenge in the Era of Artificial Illusions

no code implementations24 Dec 2023 Mirko Casu, Luca Guarnera, Pasquale Caponnetto, Sebastiano Battiato

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of cognitive biases in forensics and digital forensics, examining their implications for decision-making processes in these fields.

Decision Making DeepFake Detection +1

An Innovative Tool for Uploading/Scraping Large Image Datasets on Social Networks

no code implementations1 Nov 2023 Nicolò Fabio Arceri, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato

Nowadays, people can retrieve and share digital information in an increasingly easy and fast fashion through the well-known digital platforms, including sensitive data, inappropriate or illegal content, and, in general, information that might serve as probative evidence in court.

Innovative Methods for Non-Destructive Inspection of Handwritten Documents

no code implementations17 Oct 2023 Eleonora Breci, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato

Handwritten document analysis is an area of forensic science, with the goal of establishing authorship of documents through examination of inherent characteristics.

Not with my name! Inferring artists' names of input strings employed by Diffusion Models

1 code implementation25 Jul 2023 Roberto Leotta, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato

In this paper, a preliminary study to infer the probability of use of an artist's name in the input string of a generated image is presented.

UniCT DMI Solution for 3rd COV19D Competition on COVID-19 Detection through attention-based CNN for CT Scan

no code implementations15 Mar 2023 Alessia Rondinella, Francesco Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Alessandro Ortis, Francesco Rundo, Sebastiano Battiato

This paper presents our solution for the first challenge of the 3rd Covid-19 competition, which is part of the "AI-enabled Medical Image Analysis Workshop" organized by IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023.

Management

Level Up the Deepfake Detection: a Method to Effectively Discriminate Images Generated by GAN Architectures and Diffusion Models

no code implementations1 Mar 2023 Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato

The image deepfake detection task has been greatly addressed by the scientific community to discriminate real images from those generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) models: a binary classification task.

Binary Classification DeepFake Detection +2

CNN-based first quantization estimation of double compressed JPEG images

1 code implementation Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation 2022 Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Francesco Guarnera, Giovanni Puglisi

Multiple JPEG compressions leave artifacts in digital images: residual traces that could be exploited in forensics investigations to recover information about the device employed for acquisition or image editing software.

Quantization

Transfer Learning via Test-Time Neural Networks Aggregation

no code implementations27 Jun 2022 Bruno Casella, Alessio Barbaro Chisari, Sebastiano Battiato, Mario Valerio Giuffrida

The proposed aggregation loss allows our model to learn how trained deep network parameters can be aggregated with an aggregation operator.

Transfer Learning

On the Exploitation of Deepfake Model Recognition

no code implementations9 Apr 2022 Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Matthias Niessner, Sebastiano Battiato

Despite recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), with special focus to the Deepfake phenomenon there is no a clear understanding neither in terms of explainability nor of recognition of the involved models.

Face Swapping

Deepfake Style Transfer Mixture: a First Forensic Ballistics Study on Synthetic Images

no code implementations18 Mar 2022 Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato

Most recent style-transfer techniques based on generative architectures are able to obtain synthetic multimedia contents, or commonly called deepfakes, with almost no artifacts.

Face Swapping Style Transfer

A Survey on Human-aware Robot Navigation

no code implementations22 Jun 2021 Ronja Möller, Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Aki Härmä, Giovanni Maria Farinella

This paper is concerned with the navigation aspect of a socially-compliant robot and provides a survey of existing solutions for the relevant areas of research as well as an outlook on possible future directions.

Human Activity Recognition Robot Navigation

Fighting deepfakes by detecting GAN DCT anomalies

no code implementations24 Jan 2021 Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato

To properly contrast the Deepfake phenomenon the need to design new Deepfake detection algorithms arises; the misuse of this formidable A. I.

DeepFake Detection Face Swapping +1

Animated GIF optimization by adaptive color local table management

no code implementations9 Jul 2020 Oliver Giudice, Dario Allegra, Francesco Guarnera, Filippo Stanco, Sebastiano Battiato

The proposed technique is based on Local Color Table selection and color remapping in order to create optimized animated GIFs while preserving the original format.

Management

Single architecture and multiple task deep neural network for altered fingerprint analysis

no code implementations9 Jul 2020 Oliver Giudice, Mattia Litrico, Sebastiano Battiato

Fingerprints are one of the most copious evidence in a crime scene and, for this reason, they are frequently used by law enforcement for identification of individuals.

Friction

Preliminary Forensics Analysis of DeepFake Images

1 code implementation27 Apr 2020 Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Cristina Nastasi, Sebastiano Battiato

One of the most terrifying phenomenon nowadays is the DeepFake: the possibility to automatically replace a person's face in images and videos by exploiting algorithms based on deep learning.

Face Swapping

Survey on Visual Sentiment Analysis

no code implementations24 Apr 2020 Alessandro Ortis, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Sebastiano Battiato

The paper also includes a description of new challenges, the evaluation from the viewpoint of progress toward more sophisticated systems and related practical applications, as well as a summary of the insights resulting from this study.

Sentiment Analysis

DeepFake Detection by Analyzing Convolutional Traces

no code implementations22 Apr 2020 Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato

The Deepfake phenomenon has become very popular nowadays thanks to the possibility to create incredibly realistic images using deep learning tools, based mainly on ad-hoc Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN).

DeepFake Detection Face Swapping +1

EGO-CH: Dataset and Fundamental Tasks for Visitors BehavioralUnderstanding using Egocentric Vision

no code implementations3 Feb 2020 Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Signorello, Giovanni Maria Farinella

Equipping visitors of a cultural site with a wearable device allows to easily collect information about their preferences which can be exploited to improve the fruition of cultural goods with augmented reality.

Object Recognition Retrieval

Next-Active-Object prediction from Egocentric Videos

no code implementations10 Apr 2019 Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Kristen Grauman, Giovanni Maria Farinella

Although First Person Vision systems can sense the environment from the user's perspective, they are generally unable to predict his intentions and goals.

Object

Egocentric Visitors Localization in Cultural Sites

no code implementations10 Apr 2019 Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Signorello, Giovanni Maria Farinella

We consider the problem of localizing visitors in a cultural site from egocentric (first person) images.

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