arXiv Computer Vision

Beyond Ambiguous Visual Cues: Studying Physiological Disruptions and Cross-Modal Inconsistencies in Deepfake Videos

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

Interpretable Deepfake Detection in Videos via Explicit Forensic Features and Temporal Modeling

This paper presents an interpretable deepfake detection framework that explicitly encodes physically grounded forensic cues to analyze spatially and temporally coherent facial features in video sequences. The method transforms videos into identity-consistent facial trajectories, segments them into fixed-length temporal windows, and represents each frame with 68 structured descriptors across photometric, textural, geometric, and compression domains. These descriptors are processed by an LSTM to capture temporal dependencies, achieving strong F1-scores on four benchmark datasets and demonstrating robust cross-dataset generalization.

By Chahira Benhama, Mohand Sa\"id Allili, Assia Hamadene
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Band-Attention Modulation Network for Robust Face Forgery Detection

The paper introduces Band-Attention Modulation Network (BAM‑Net), a face forgery detection framework that learns fine‑grained, adaptive modulation of frequency bands in the Discrete Cosine Transform spectrogram. BAM‑Net dynamically reweights anti‑diagonal frequency bands to enhance forgery‑related spectral cues while suppressing irrelevant information, then fuses this modulated frequency data with spatial features using a lightweight backbone with distance‑decayed attention. Experiments on FaceForensics++, Celeb‑DF, and DFDC show that BAM‑Net achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance and strong generalization across datasets, compression levels, and manipulation types.

By Zhida Zhang, Wenkui Yang, Xinlei Ma, Qihang Fan, Jie Cao
arXiv AI
Oct 26

Spectra: Multi-Scale Implicit Decomposition for Deepfake Detection

Spectra is a deepfake detection framework that uses implicit neural representations (INRs) to analyze how an image is reconstructed, producing multi-level reconstruction heatmaps. These heatmaps are fused with semantic visual features via a bidirectional mechanism, enabling the model to detect forgery cues that are less tied to specific generation pipelines. Experiments on several deepfake benchmarks show that Spectra outperforms detectors relying only on RGB appearance or semantic representations, and it also extends to face presentation attack detection.

By Dhananjaya Jayasundara, Kartik Narayan, Vishal M. Patel
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

Only Train Once: Uncertainty-Aware One-Class Learning for Face Authenticity Detection

The paper introduces FADNet, a face authenticity detector that treats forgery detection as a one‑class classification problem, training only on authentic faces. It uses Evidential Deep Learning to measure uncertainty and a pseudo‑forgery generator to sharpen decision boundaries. Experiments on DF40 and ASFD show FADNet surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods with 96.63% accuracy and 98.83% precision.

By Qingchao Jiang, Zhenxuan Hou, Zhiying Zhu, Zhenxing Qian, Xinpeng Zhang, Zaiwang Gu