Edward Delp: ‘Deepfakes and Other Types of Generated and Manipulated Media: It Is Real and Coming for Our Society!’

Edward Delp, the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, professor of computer science (courtesy) and professor of psychological sciences (courtesy), discussed “Deepfakes and Other Types of Generated and Manipulated Media: It Is Real and Coming for Our Society!” at the Westwood Lecture Series on Nov. 16, 2023.

Abstract. In this talk, Delp will present an overview of the current state of generated and manipulated media, such as deepfakes, and describe how these methods work, where they are being used and how to detect them. He will also describe the history of manipulated media content and how we got where we are today. Talk outline:

• Historical overview of manipulated media.
• The disappearing Russians.
• Hollywood and CGI cheapfakes and deepfakes.
• Seeing is not believing.
• An overview of the technology.
• The threat of manipulated media.
• Where is this all going in five, 10, 20 years?
• Is help coming?

Bio. Edward J. Delp was born in Cincinnati. He received BSEE (cum laude) and MS degrees from the University of Cincinnati and a PhD from Purdue University. In May 2002, he received an Honorary Doctor of Technology from the Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland. In 2008, Delp was named a distinguished professor and is currently the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering. His research interests include image analysis, computer vision, machine learning, image and video compression, multimedia security, medical imaging, multimedia systems, communication and information theory. Delp has published and presented more than 750 papers.