With the rapid development of face manipulation technology, it is difficult for human eyes to distinguish fake face images. On the contrary, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) discriminators can quickly reach high accuracy in identifying fake/real face images. In this study, we explore the behavior of CNN models in distinguish fake/real faces. We find multi-scale texture difference information plays an important role in face forgery detection. Motivated by the above observation, we propose a new Multi-scale Texture Difference model coined as MTD-Net for robust face forgery detection, which leverages central difference convolution (CDC) and atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP). CDC combines the pixel intensity information and the pixel gradient information to give a stationary description of texture difference information. Simultaneously, based on the ASPP, multi-scale information fusion can keep the texture features from being destroyed. Experimental results on several databases, Faceforensics++, DeeperForensics-1.0, Celeb-DF and DFDC prove that our MTD-Net outperforms existing approaches. The MTD-Net is more robust to image distortion, e.g., JPEG compression and blur, which is urgently needed in the wild world.

The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are competent to perform a variety of applications, possessing great potential and promise. The deep neural networks (DNN) technology has enabled the UAV-assisted paradigm, accelerated the construction of smart cities, and propelled the development of the Internet of Things (IoT). UAVs play an increasingly important role in various applications, such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, emergency rescue, and supplies delivery, for which a robust path-planning technique is the foundation and prerequisite. However, existing methods lack comprehensive consideration of the complicated urban environment and do not provide an overall assessment of the robustness and generalization. Meanwhile, due to the resource constraints and hardware limitations of UAVs, the complexity of deploying the network needs to be reduced. This article proposes a lightweight, reinforcement-learning-based (RL-based) real-time path-planning method for UAVs, adaptive SAC (ASAC) algorithm, which optimizing the training process, network architecture, and algorithmic models. First of all, we establish a framework of global training and local adaptation, where the structured environment model is constructed for interaction, and local dynamically varying information aids in improving generalization. Second, ASAC introduces a cross-layer connection approach that passes the original state information into the higher layers to avoid feature loss and improve learning efficiency. Finally, we propose an adaptive temperature coefficient, which flexibly adjusts the exploration probability of UAVs with the training phase and experience data accumulation. In addition, a series of comparison experiments have been conducted in conjunction with practical application requirements, and the results have fully proved the favorable superiority of ASAC.

Lots of Deepfake videos are circulating on the Internet, which not only damages the personal rights of the forged individual, but also pollutes the web environment. What’s worse, it may trigger public opinion and endanger national security. Therefore, it is urgent to fight deep forgery. Most of the current forgery detection algorithms are based on convolutional neural networks to learn the feature differences between forged and real frames from big data. In this paper, from the perspective of image generation, we simulate the forgery process based on image generation and explore possible trace of forgery. We propose a multi-scale self-texture attention Generative Network(MSTA-Net) to track the potential texture trace in image generation process and eliminate the interference of deep forgery post-processing. Firstly, a generator with encoder-decoder is to disassemble images and performed trace generation, then we merge the generated trace image and the original map, which is input into the classifier with Resnet as the backbone. Secondly, the self-texture attention mechanism(STA) is proposed as the skip connection between the encoder and the decoder, which significantly enhances the texture characteristics in the image disassembly process and assists the generation of texture trace. Finally, we propose a loss function called Prob-tuple loss restricted by classification probability to amend the generation of forgery trace directly. To verify the performance of the MSTA-Net, we design different experiments to verify the feasibility and advancement of the method. Experimental results show that the proposed method performs well on deep forged databases represented by FaceForensics++, Celeb-DF, Deeperforensics and DFDC, and some results are reaching the state-of-the-art.

SAR images have become the latest high-resolution imaging equipment, which can monitor the Earth 24 hours a day. More and more deep learning technologies are applied to ship target detection, however, in complex environments, due to the small target of the ship, problems such as false detection and miss detection often occur. For this reason, SSPNet is proposed with several small-target-augmentation strategies to complete the detection of small ships on the sea. This network is an improvement of FPN. The model uses Context Attention Module (CAM), Scale Enhancement Module (SEM), and Scale Selection Module (SSM). CAM introduces the attention heat map, SEM uses the residual module to make the network pay more attention to specific scale targets, SSM introduces deep semantic features into shallow features. Weighted Negative Sampling (WNS) strategy is proposed to enable the network to select more representative samples. These modules make the network more suitable for small target detection. The results on SSDD dataset show that the model is superior to the existing object detection network, and the AP50 reaches 91.57%.