Does Melania Trump have a body double from the perspective of automatic face recognition?
This addresses the problem of combating misinformation for social media users, but it appears incremental as it applies existing methods to a new case without major breakthroughs.
The paper tackled the problem of verifying misinformation on social media, specifically the Melania Trump body double conspiracy theory, by using four state-of-the-art face recognition descriptors and assessing the impact of image quality metrics, but no concrete results or numbers were provided.
In this paper, we explore whether automatic face recognition can help in verifying widespread misinformation on social media, particularly conspiracy theories that are based on the existence of body doubles. The conspiracy theory addressed in this paper is the case of the Melania Trump body double. We employed four different state-of-the-art descriptors for face recognition to verify the integrity of the claim of the studied conspiracy theory. In addition, we assessed the impact of different image quality metrics on the variation of face recognition results. Two sets of image quality metrics were considered: acquisition-related metrics and subject-related metrics.