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A Dive into Deepfakes

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Shannon Gallagher, a data scientist with SEI’s CERT Division, and Dominic Ross, multimedia team lead for the SEI, discuss deepfakes, their exponential growth in recent years, and their increasing technical sophistication and realism.
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Software Engineering Institute

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Abstract

Shannon Gallagher, a data scientist with SEI’s CERT Division, and Dominic Ross, multimedia team lead for the SEI, discuss deepfakes, their exponential growth in recent years, their increasing technical sophistication and realism, as well as the problems and challenges that they pose for individuals and organizations. Gallagher and Ross also discuss the SEI’s recent research in assessing the technology underlying the creation and detection of deepfakes and understanding current and future threat levels.

About the Speaker

Shannon Gallagher

Shannon Gallagher is a data scientist in the SEI’s CERT Division. In that role, Gallagher focuses on modeling, uncertainty quantification, and data visualization and leading research to develop a statistical pipeline to help determine the authenticity of images and videos. Prior to joining the SEI, Gallagher worked as a post-doctoral …

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Dominic Ross

Dominic A. Ross

Dominic Ross is the broadcast media team lead at the SEI where his work focuses on focuses on multimedia research and transformative gamification. In that role, he designs and engineers production studios and systems used to acquire training, conferences, webinars, and broadcast video used by the federal cybersecurity workforce, Carnegie …

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