SEAS in the News

The BBC, in a story about a mother who used explicit deepfake photos and videos to try to get her teenage daughter's cheerleading rivals kicked off the team, reports that UB computer scientists le led by Siwei Lyu have developed a tool that can identify deepfake photos by analyzing light reflections in a person's eyes.

News outlets worldwide including PC Magazine, CNET, Business Insider, Futurism, Punto Informatico (Italy) and Pro Kerala (India) reported on a new research study led by Siwei Lyu that describes a tool that spots deepfake photos by examining light reflection in the eyes.

Futurity, Yahoo! Japan, Gizmodo's Japanese website and Popular Mechanics' website for South Africa were among news outlets worldwide that continued reporting on advances in 3D printing that center on a method called stereolithography and jelly-like materials known as hydrogels. 

Input, The Next Web and other tech-focused outlets reported that a team led by Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has created a system for detecting deepfakes, or highly realistic images of people that are generated by computers and hard to discern from real faces.

TechXplore reports that on research led by Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, to develop a tool that identifies deepfake photos by analyzing light reflections in the eyes. 

Dot Med, Mashable, and SlashGear report on research led by Chi Zhou and Ruogang Zhao on a new 3D printing method that’s 10-50 times faster than the industry standard.