PXL Vision and Idiap develop solution for detecting deepfakes

Zurich, 29 February 2024 - PXL Vision, the Swiss market leader and premium provider of digital identity verification solutions, and the Swiss research institute Idiap are joining forces to combat fraudulent AI-generated facial images and travel documents. The project, funded by the Swiss innovation agency Innosuisse, aims to bring the world's first robust solution for deep facial recognition to market. The federal public institution has awarded the contract for the 18-month project to the independent, non-profit Idiap Research Institute as research partner and PXL Vision as implementation partner. "Identity forgery using artificially generated data is a growing problem in the fight against attempted fraud on the Internet. Together with Idiap, we are therefore working at full speed on the next generation of deepfake detection to adapt our digital identity verification solutions to the new technological challenges and make them even more secure," says Michael Born, CEO of PXL Vision. "By generating synthetic data for document and image recognition, we also want to ensure that our facial verification always has the same high quality, regardless of the age, gender or skin colour of the people depicted."

General deepfake detection is still a technical challenge even for the most modern technology. "With the rapid development of artificial intelligence methods, we are striving to stay ahead of the curve. Together with Idiap, we want to develop a solution that can be used with novel methods to recognise both AI-generated faces and identity documents. The same technologies will be used to cover the entire global population with a new synthetic and balanced dataset of faces (in terms of gender, age, skin colour) to ensure the accuracy of facial recognition by PXL Vision products in the future.
"We are looking forward to working with the identity verification expert PXL Vision and researching this important and future-oriented topic" says Prof Sebastien Marcel, Head of Biometrics Security & Privacy, and AI for Trust at Idiap Research Institute.

About PXL Vision 

PXL Vision is the Swiss market leader and premium provider of digital identity verification. The Zurich-based company helps companies automate digital customer onboarding, increase conversions, reduce onboarding and compliance costs, and prevent identity fraud. Based on artificial intelligence, PXL Vision offers fully automated, web-based ID verification solutions that can be configured to meet individual needs and seamlessly integrated into existing processes. The modular design allows for optimal adaptation to different use cases and requirements.

PXL Vision's solutions are available as SaaS, on-premise or hybrid applications and are characterised by a high degree of user-friendliness for end users and maximum customisation options for customer companies. With PXL Vision solutions, both FINMA and ZertES compliance can be achieved. In addition, the entire process is infrastructure certified according to ISO 27001. PXL Vision is trusted by industry leaders such as Swisscom, Sunrise, SwissID, Swiss Life, Groupe Mutuel, BCV, SBB, Mobility, Unisys, VIAC, Stiftung Auffangeinrichtung BVG and Cembra Money Bank. The company operates throughout Europe with a focus on the DACH region.