Intel Reveals 'World's First' Real-Time Deepfake Detector

Intel has introduced what it claims(Opens in a new window) is the world's very first real-time deepfake detector. FakeCatcher is said to have a 96% accuracy rate and works by analyzing blood flow in video pixels using innovative photoplethysmography (PPG(Opens in a new window)). Ilke Demir, the senior staff research scientist in Intel Labs, designed the FakeCatcher detector in collaboration with Umur Ciftci from the State University of New York at Binghamton. The real-time detector uses Intel hardware and software and runs on a server and interfaces through a web-based platform. FakeCatcher is different from most deep learning-based detectors in the fact that it looks for authentic clues in real videos rather than looking at raw data to spot signs of inauthenticity.