Manipulation of faces in fake videos

Artificial Intelligence

5/2/2018

What photos and videos can still be trusted? At the Science Matinee hosted by the TUM Institute for Advanced Study on May 6, Prof. Matthias Nießner will demonstrate how facial expressions and movements can be manipulated at will. The computer scientist will also show how such manipulations can be detected and explain the role of artificial intelligence.

Wall with screens — Authentic or manipulated? Prof. Matthias Nießner analyses fake videos. (Image: fredmantel / istockphoto.com)

Matthias Nießner has been a professor for visual computing at TUM since 2017. Before coming to TUM he was a guest professor at Stanford University. He works on 3D digitization at the interface between the research areas of computer graphics, computer vision and artificial intelligence.