Sarwar Khan

Wasim Ahmad, Yan-Tsung Peng, Yuan-Hao Chang et al.

Deep-fake videos, generated through AI face-swapping techniques, have gained significant attention due to their potential for impactful impersonation attacks. While most research focuses on real vs. fake detection, attributing a deep-fake to its specific generation model or encoder is vital for forensic analysis, enabling source tracing and tailored countermeasures. This enhances detection by leveraging model-specific artifacts and supports proactive defenses. We investigate the model attribution problem for deep-fake videos using two datasets: Deepfakes from Different Models (DFDM) and GANGen-Detection, both comprising deep-fake videos and GAN-generated images. We use only fake images from GANGen-Detection to align with DFDM's focus on attribution rather than binary classification. We formulate the task as a multiclass classification problem and introduce a novel Capsule-Spatial-Temporal (CapST) model that integrates a truncated VGG19 network for feature extraction, capsule networks for hierarchical encoding, and a spatio-temporal attention mechanism. Video-level fusion captures temporal dependencies across frames. Experiments on DFDM and GANGen-Detection show CapST outperforms baseline models in attribution accuracy while reducing computational cost.

Sarwar Khan

Deepfake technology has raised concerns about the authenticity of digital content, necessitating the development of effective detection methods. However, the widespread availability of deepfakes has given rise to a new challenge in the form of adversarial attacks. Adversaries can manipulate deepfake videos with small, imperceptible perturbations that can deceive the detection models into producing incorrect outputs. To tackle this critical issue, we introduce Adversarial Feature Similarity Learning (AFSL), which integrates three fundamental deep feature learning paradigms. By optimizing the similarity between samples and weight vectors, our approach aims to distinguish between real and fake instances. Additionally, we aim to maximize the similarity between both adversarially perturbed examples and unperturbed examples, regardless of their real or fake nature. Moreover, we introduce a regularization technique that maximizes the dissimilarity between real and fake samples, ensuring a clear separation between these two categories. With extensive experiments on popular deepfake datasets, including FaceForensics++, FaceShifter, and DeeperForensics, the proposed method outperforms other standard adversarial training-based defense methods significantly. This further demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach to protecting deepfake detectors from adversarial attacks.

Faisal Ghaffar, Sarwar Khan, Bunyarit Uyyanonvara et al.

This research aims to develop an efficient system for screening of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is the major cause of blindness. Severity of diabetic retinopathy is recognized by some features, such as blood vessel area, exudates, haemorrhages and microaneurysms. To grade the disease the screening system must efficiently detect these features. In this paper we are proposing a simple and fast method for detection of diabetic retinopathy. We do pre-processing of grey-scale image and find all labelled connected components (blobs) in an image regardless of whether it is haemorrhages, exudates, vessels, optic disc or anything else. Then we apply some constraints such as compactness, area of blob, intensity and contrast for screening of candidate connectedcomponent responsible for diabetic retinopathy. We obtain our final results by doing some post processing. The results are compared with ground truths. Performance is measured by finding the recall (sensitivity). We took 10 images of dimension 500 * 752. The mean recall is 90.03%.

Faisal Ghaffar, Sarwar Khan, Gaddisa O. et al.

Deep learning is playing a vital role in every field which involves data. It has emerged as a strong and efficient framework that can be applied to a broad spectrum of complex learning problems which were difficult to solve using traditional machine learning techniques in the past. In this study we focused on classification of protein sequences with deep learning techniques. The study of amino acid sequence is vital in life sciences. We used different word embedding techniques from Natural Language processing to represent the amino acid sequence as vectors. Our main goal was to classify sequences to four group of classes, that are DNA, RNA, Protein and hybrid. After several tests we have achieved almost 99% of train and test accuracy. We have experimented on CNN, LSTM, Bidirectional LSTM, and GRU.

Sarwar Khan, Faisal Ghaffar, Imad Ali et al.

The classification of amino acids and their sequence analysis plays a vital role in life sciences and is a challenging task. This article uses and compares state-of-the-art deep learning models like convolution neural networks (CNN), long short-term memory (LSTM), and gated recurrent units (GRU) to solve macromolecule classification problems using amino acids. These models have efficient frameworks for solving a broad spectrum of complex learning problems compared to traditional machine learning techniques. We use word embedding to represent the amino acid sequences as vectors. The CNN extracts features from amino acid sequences, which are treated as vectors, then fed to the models mentioned above to train a robust classifier. Our results show that word2vec as embedding combined with VGG-16 performs better than LSTM and GRU. The proposed approach gets an error rate of 1.5%.