Soongsil University, Chung-Ang University team develops technology to disrupt lip-sync deepfakes
A joint research team from Soongsil University and Chung-Ang University has developed a technology to disrupt lip synchronization in deepfake videos that use artificial intelligence (AI) to make a person's lip movements match an audio track. Soongsil University said Tuesday that the team, led by professor Choi Dae-sun of its AI Security Center and professor Kwon Jun-seok of Chung-Ang University,…
Soongsil University and Chung-Ang University researchers have created a new technology called MUTE, designed to disrupt the lip synchronization in deepfake videos created using AI. Professor Choi Dae-sun from Soongsil University's AI Security Center and Professor Kwon Jun-seok from Chung-Ang University led the team. Their invention, MUTE, is the first technology to counter deepfakes using only audio protection.
The team's paper, titled "MUTE: Multi-Level Alignment Uncoupling Against Talking-Head Exploitation for Voice Protection," was accepted for presentation at the prestigious Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026. The research was funded by the Personal Information Protection Commission and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA). The team also included doctoral student Kim Dong-hyun and master's student Kim Seung.
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