Currently, face-swapping deepfake techniques are widely spread, generating a significant number of highly realistic fake videos that threaten the privacy of people and countries. Due to their devastating impacts on the world, distinguishing between real and deepfake videos has become a fundamental issue. This paper presents a new deepfake detection method: you only look once–convolutional neural network–extreme gradient boosting (YOLO-CNN-XGBoost). The YOLO face detector is employed to extract the face area from video frames, while the InceptionResNetV2 CNN is utilized to extract features from these faces. These features are fed into the XGBoost that works as a recognizer on the top level of the CNN network. The proposed method achieves 90.62% of an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), 90.73% accuracy, 93.53% specificity, 85.39% sensitivity, 85.39% recall, 87.36% precision, and 86.36% F1-measure on the CelebDF-FaceForencics++ (c23) merged dataset. The experimental study confirms the superiority of the presented method as compared to the state-of-the-art methods.
Background As the COVID-19 crisis endures and the virus continues to spread globally, the need for collecting epidemiological data and patient information also grows exponentially. The race against the clock to find a cure and a vaccine to the disease means researchers require storage of increasingly large and diverse types of information; for doctors following patients, recording symptoms and reactions to treatments, the need for storage flexibility is only surpassed by the necessity of storage security. The volume, variety, and variability of COVID-19 patient data requires storage in NoSQL database management systems (DBMSs). But with a multitude of existing NoSQL DBMSs, there is no straightforward way for institutions to select the most appropriate. And more importantly, they suffer from security flaws that would render them inappropriate for the storage of confidential patient data. Motivation This paper develops an innovative solution to remedy the aforementioned shortcomings. COVID-19 patients, as well as medical professionals, could be subjected to privacy-related risks, from abuse of their data to community bullying regarding their medical condition. Thus, in addition to being appropriately stored and analyzed, their data must imperatively be highly protected against misuse. Methods This paper begins by explaining the five most popular categories of NoSQL databases. It also introduces the most popular NoSQL DBMS types related to each one of them. Moreover, this paper presents a comparative study of the different types of NoSQL DBMS, according to their strengths and weaknesses. This paper then introduces an algorithm that would assist hospitals, and medical and scientific authorities to choose the most appropriate type for storing patients’ information. This paper subsequently presents a set of functions, based on web services, offering a set of endpoints that include authentication, authorization, auditing, and encryption of information. These functions are powerful and effective, making them appropriate to store all the sensitive data related to patients. Results and Contributions This paper presents an algorithm to select the most convenient NoSQL DBMS for COVID-19 patients, medical staff, and organizations data. In addition, the paper proposes innovative security solutions that eliminate the barriers to utilizing NoSQL DBMSs to store patients’ data. The proposed solutions resolve several security problems including authentication, authorization, auditing, and encryption. After implementing these security solutions, the use of NoSQL DBMSs will become a much more appropriate, safer, and affordable solution to storing and analyzing patients’ data, which would contribute greatly to the medical and research effort against COVID-19. This solution can be implemented for all types of NoSQL DBMSs; implementing it would result in highly securing patients’ data, and protecting them from any downsides related to data leakage.
Image segmentation process is considered the most essential step in image analysis especially in the medical field. In this paper, the color segmentation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia images (ALL) is applied to segment each leukemia image into two clearly defined regions: blasts and background. The ALL segmentation process is based on two different color spaces: RGB color space and HSV color space. The comparison performance between the segmentation methods based on RGB and HSV color spaces are investigated to find the best method to segment the acute lymphoblastic leukemia images. The experimental results show that the segmentation of ALL images based on HSV color space yield better accuracy than RGB color space when compared with the manual segmentation image made by medical experts. Using HSV color space, the shape of blasts in ALL blood samples is closely preserved with segmentation accuracy over 99.00%. However, segmentation based HSV color space was chosen as it produced the highest ALL segmentation rate.
Recently, the deepfake techniques for swapping faces have been spreading, allowing easy creation of hyper-realistic fake videos. Detecting the authenticity of a video has become increasingly critical because of the potential negative impact on the world. Here, a new project is introduced; You Only Look Once Convolution Recurrent Neural Networks (YOLO-CRNNs), to detect deepfake videos. The YOLO-Face detector detects face regions from each frame in the video, whereas a fine-tuned EfficientNet-B5 is used to extract the spatial features of these faces. These features are fed as a batch of input sequences into a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM), to extract the temporal features. The new scheme is then evaluated on a new large-scale dataset; CelebDF-FaceForencics++ (c23), based on a combination of two popular datasets; FaceForencies++ (c23) and Celeb-DF. It achieves an Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUROC) 89.35% score, 89.38% accuracy, 83.15% recall, 85.55% precision, and 84.33% F1-measure for pasting data approach. The experimental analysis approves the superiority of the proposed method compared to the state-of-the-art methods.
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