Using Deep Neural Nets to generate fakes

Security

By building a DeepFake of our own, we can better understand the limitations of DeepFakes, and how to counter them. 

It's Fun!

Obviously, being able to stuff words into other peoples' mouths is fun (as long as the words are harmless)! So why not do an academically stimulating and fun project?

Yoda

C-3PO

"Hmm. In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side."

"Oh my goodness"

Yoda

C-3PO

Model

Model

"Hmm. In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side."

Expected Result

Voice Conversion Model

AutoVC: Zero-Shot Voice Style Transfer with Only AutoEncoder Loss

AutoEncoder Model

Encoder

Decoder

Encoding

Input

Output

Learns an encoding (representation) for the input data

Learns to decode the encoding and produce some output

Ex. Removal of Noise

Learns to decode the encoding and produce some output

Learns to represent that it's a '7' and ignore the noise

Encoding

Decoder

Encoder

AutoVC Model

Content

Encoder

$E_C(\cdot)$

$E_S(X_1)$

$E_C(X_1)$

Style

Encoder

$E_S(\cdot)$

$X_1$

Tries to separate the content (what is actually being said, i.e., phonology, tones) and the speaker data (accent, voice)

The content encoder receives both the style encoding and the original spectrogram as input as it needs to learn to separate the two

AutoVC Model

Content

Encoder

$E_C(\cdot)$

$E_S(X_1)$

$E_C(X_1)$

Style

Encoder

$E_S(\cdot)$

$X_1$

$E_S(X_2)$

We want the style of $X_2$ and the content of $X_1$

AutoVC Model

$E_S(X_2)$

$E_C(X_1)$

Decoder

$D(\cdot, \cdot)$

$\tilde{X}_{1\rightarrow 2}$

$R_{1 \rightarrow 2}$

Initial estimate

Residue

$\hat{X}_{1\rightarrow 2}$

WaveNet

(Spectrogram to Wave)

Finished Product!

Voilà! We can now convert between voices!

Phase I.

Survey & Decide our problem

Egyptian Hieroglyph Recognition

Fake News Evaluation

Deepfake

Phase II.

Learn tools required

& Read papers

Phase III.

Prototyping Phase

Phase IV.

Debugging,

Tweaking,

Commenting

Phase V.

Cleaning Up,

Write Thesis,

Ready the presentation!

The paper gave a half-complete implementation of AutoVC

(auspicious3000 @ IBM)

Content

Encoder

$E_C(\cdot)$

Decoder

$D(\cdot, \cdot)$

Generator

WaveNet

(Spectrogram to Wave)

 (r9y9 @ Google)

What we were given

Style

Encoder

$E_S(\cdot)$

 (CorentinJ @ Resemble AI)

Generator

What we need to do

1. Fit all the pieces together and ensure the smooth operation of the three models

2. Write code to load our own data and feed it into the pieced-together machine

3. Be able to train and evaluate the machine on our own data

Generator

What we need to do

1. Fit all the pieces together and ensure the smooth operation of the three models

2. Write code to load our own data and feed it into the pieced-together machine

3. Be able to train and evaluate the machine on our own data

mostly complete!

Is in testing phase

Is in testing phase

Finish the code

Stitch the voice onto a video

To be looked into further...