Detection of Digital Facial Retouching utilizing Face Beauty Information

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Main Authors: Srock, Philipp, Tapia, Juan E., Busch, Christoph
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Published: 2025
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author Srock, Philipp
Tapia, Juan E.
Busch, Christoph
author_facet Srock, Philipp
Tapia, Juan E.
Busch, Christoph
contents Facial retouching to beautify images is widely spread in social media, advertisements, and it is even applied in professional photo studios to let individuals appear younger, remove wrinkles and skin impurities. Generally speaking, this is done to enhance beauty. This is not a problem itself, but when retouched images are used as biometric samples and enrolled in a biometric system, it is one. Since previous work has proven facial retouching to be a challenge for face recognition systems,the detection of facial retouching becomes increasingly necessary. This work proposes to study and analyze changes in beauty assessment algorithms of retouched images, assesses different feature extraction methods based on artificial intelligence in order to improve retouching detection, and evaluates whether face beauty can be exploited to enhance the detection rate. In a scenario where the attacking retouching algorithm is unknown, this work achieved 1.1% D-EER on single image detection.
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spellingShingle Detection of Digital Facial Retouching utilizing Face Beauty Information
Srock, Philipp
Tapia, Juan E.
Busch, Christoph
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Facial retouching to beautify images is widely spread in social media, advertisements, and it is even applied in professional photo studios to let individuals appear younger, remove wrinkles and skin impurities. Generally speaking, this is done to enhance beauty. This is not a problem itself, but when retouched images are used as biometric samples and enrolled in a biometric system, it is one. Since previous work has proven facial retouching to be a challenge for face recognition systems,the detection of facial retouching becomes increasingly necessary. This work proposes to study and analyze changes in beauty assessment algorithms of retouched images, assesses different feature extraction methods based on artificial intelligence in order to improve retouching detection, and evaluates whether face beauty can be exploited to enhance the detection rate. In a scenario where the attacking retouching algorithm is unknown, this work achieved 1.1% D-EER on single image detection.
title Detection of Digital Facial Retouching utilizing Face Beauty Information
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08397