August 6, 2020
Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful tool used by designers, web developers, graphic artists, photographers, creative professionals and a very wide spectrum of business applications.
However; with this significant reliance on Photoshop; it had been always accused to hurt the trust in online media among audiences. With lots of fake content out there and as commented by Adobe in their official blog. The company also declared that they are responsible for utilizing new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to increase trust and authority in digital media.
Adobe had been teaming up with researchers from Berkeley University of California, the U.S and finally came out with an AI (Artificial Intelligence) algorithm to detect facial manipulation in images edited with Adobe Photoshop. The research project team had been using sophisticated machine learning algorithms to train the “Convolutional Neural Network” (CNN), and resulted in a tool that enables to recognition of altered images of faces in 99% of cases.