A Large-scale Interpretable Multi-modality Benchmark for Facial Image Forgery Localization

Image forgery localization, which centers on identifying tampered pixels within an image, has seen significant advancements. Traditional approaches often model this challenge as a variant of image segmentation, treating the binary segmentation of forged areas as the end product. We argue that the basic binary forgery mask is inadequate for explaining model predictions. It doesn't clarify why the model pinpoints certain areas and treats all forged pixels the same, making it hard to spot the most fake-looking parts. In this study, we mitigate the aforementioned limitations by generating salient region-focused interpretation for the forgery images. To support this, we craft a Multi-Modal Tramper Tracing (MMTT) dataset, comprising facial images manipulated using deepfake techniques and paired with manual, interpretable textual annotations. To harvest high-quality annotation, annotators are instructed to meticulously observe the manipulated images and articulate the typical characteristics of the forgery regions. Subsequently, we collect a dataset of 128,303 image-text pairs. Leveraging the MMTT dataset, we develop ForgeryTalker, an architecture designed for concurrent forgery localization and interpretation. ForgeryTalker first trains a forgery prompter network to identify the pivotal clues within the explanatory text. Subsequently, the region prompter is incorporated into multimodal large language model for finetuning to achieve the dual goals of localization and interpretation. Extensive experiments conducted on the MMTT dataset verify the superior performance of our proposed model. The dataset, code as well as pretrained checkpoints will be made publicly available to facilitate further research and ensure the reproducibility of our results.

OpenQA: Hybrid QA System Relying on Structured Knowledge Base as well as Non-structured Data

Search engines based on keyword retrieval can no longer adapt to the way of information acquisition in the era of intelligent Internet of Things due to the return of keyword related Internet pages. How to quickly, accurately and effectively obtain the information needed by users from massive Internet data has become one of the key issues urgently needed to be solved. We propose an intelligent question-answering system based on structured KB and unstructured data, called OpenQA, in which users can give query questions and the model can quickly give accurate answers back to users. We integrate KBQA structured question answering based on semantic parsing and deep representation learning, and two-stage unstructured question answering based on retrieval and neural machine reading comprehension into OpenQA, and return the final answer with the highest probability through the Transformer answer selection module in OpenQA. We carry out preliminary experiments on our constructed dataset, and the experimental results prove the effectiveness of the proposed intelligent question answering system. At the same time, the core technology of each module of OpenQA platform is still in the forefront of academic hot spots, and the theoretical essence and enrichment of OpenQA will be further explored based on these academic hot spots.