Want to know the "real" face of the stars? To know if a face has been retouched on a photo? It should be possible soon.
This week, the American company Adobe, the inventor of Photoshop, the expert software of the photo editing, organized its Adobe MAX event. At this conference, the company presented the latest experimental projects from its developers, which will then be integrated into Adobe services. After launching in 2018 a technique for detecting retouched images, this year she launches the "About Face" tool, a function that can say more specifically if a face has been retouched on a photograph. This tool can even delete all changes to find the original photo.
Adobe has analyzed millions of touch ups with artificial intelligence
"About Face" does not use a face detection algorithm but rather focuses on individual pixels. Once the image is imported, it is able to give a probability of manipulation between zero - if the photo is original - and 100 - if it is certain that there was a retouch. It is then possible to obtain a "thermal map" to see in color the areas that have been manipulated.
The tool is initially reserved for professionals, especially the media to validate their photos before publishing. To develop it, Adobe analyzed millions of retouching with artificial intelligence, which made it possible to list all the invisible traces left by the tool when one removes a wrinkle, a button, that raises the cheekbones or that 'we change the grain of the skin. This information is also used to reverse the process.