Classifying Genuine Face images from Disguised Face Images

Detecting fake or disguised face images become much more challenging due to the significant advancements made in machine learning, computer vision, and image processing techniques. In addition, due to the rise of various DeepFakes, fake images can be maliciously used to attack individuals and deter true information. Therefore, it is crucial to building a classifier that accurately distinguishes an individual from different or similar persons. In this preliminary work, we aim to detect a target person's face from different similar individuals, Doppelgangers, leveraging the dataset from Disguised Faces in the Wild (DFW) 2018. We use well-known off-the-shelf face detection classifiers, such as ShallowNet, VGG-16, and Xception to evaluate the classification performance. In order to further improve the detection performance, we apply data augmentation. Our preliminary result shows that the Xception model can classify one from different individuals with a 62% accuracy.