Efficiently classify synthesized facial images generated by different synthesis methods

With image generation and manipulation as one of impressive progress of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), facial image synthesis methods, e.g., DeepFakes, pose serious challenges to social and personal security. Specifically, we find that (1) CNN-based synthesized facial image detection methods generally fail to identify synthesized images generated by other synthesis methods; (2) classical detection methods exploiting one-class support vector machines (SVMs) and traditional features of video clips fail when only one image is available. In view of the above challenges, we propose and experimentally verify a method combining CNNs features and one-class SVMs, which not only effectively detects synthesized facial images generated by different methods, but also has good robustness to the variances of the scene content.