Inspiration
AI-generated face images are increasingly misused for misinformation and fraud. This student project explores practical deepfake-image screening using the MesoNet family of compact detectors.
What it does
Takes a face image and returns a real/fake prediction with a confidence score. The repository keeps training/inference code (see MesoNetDetect) with a web demo that was previously deployed on Vercel (currently offline - code runs locally).
How I built it
- Python + MesoNet-style CNN detector (see MesoNetDetect in the repo)
- Training experiments in notebooks/scripts in the repo
- Web UI deployable on Vercel
Challenges
Generalizing across generators and resolutions with a small model, and keeping inference fast enough for a web demo.
What I learned
Compact CNN design trade-offs, evaluation on mixed real/fake sets, and shipping an ML demo end to end.
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Built With
- computer-vision
- deep-learning
- machine-learning
- python
- vercel
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