Danial Samadi Vahdati

Unmasking Puppeteers: Leveraging Biometric Leakage to Expose Impersonation in AI-Based Videoconferencing

AI-based talking-head videoconferencing systems reduce bandwidth by transmitting a latent representation of a speaker’s pose and expression, which is used to synthesize frames on the receiver's end. However, these systems are vulnerable to “puppeteering” attacks, where an adversary controls the iden…