arXiv:2607. 13234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deepfake detectors that achieve near-perfect scores on academic benchmarks collapse on real-world content: recent in-the-wild evaluations report AUC drops of 45-50% for state-of-the-art open-source models.
arXiv:2607. 06254v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deepfake image detection is currently served by three fundamentally different paradigms: commercial APIs, zero-shot vision-language models (LLMs), and open-source detectors.
arXiv:2608. 03096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in video generation models have significantly intensified the deepfake threat, yet the current deepfake video detection benchmarks remain underdeveloped.
The study challenges the prevailing belief that frequency-based features and compression-invariant learning are essential for robust deepfake detection. Using a controlled, pre‑registered protocol, a simple EfficientNet‑B0 trained on diverse multi‑quality data outperformed the more complex CAFRL model across all compression levels, with a 3.66 AUC point advantage at CRF 40. After identifying and correcting four experimental defects, the authors found that frequency features added no marginal benefit, while data diversity—particularly real constant‑rate‑factor variants—proved to be the key factor for robustness against H.264 re‑encoding.
The paper introduces LAION-Mobile, a new dataset of roughly one million smartphone images with EXIF metadata, designed to test deepfake detectors on modern computational photography content. Twelve state‑of‑the‑art detectors were evaluated on a 9,115‑image subset, revealing that none achieved an AUC above 0.624 on AI‑generated images and five performed worse than chance. The study also shows that threshold calibration on legacy data can hide high false‑alarm rates, with some detectors flagging 17–91 % of real photos when recalibrated for modern content.
Recent advances in video generation models have significantly intensified the deepfake threat, yet the current deepfake video detection benchmarks remain underdeveloped. In particular, the effectiveness of image-level detectors in the video domain has not been systematically assessed.
The paper introduces AdaGate-DF, an adaptive gated deepfake detection framework designed for low-resolution and resource-constrained environments. By leveraging image-quality cues, the system routes samples through a dual multi-exit architecture, allowing high-quality images to exit earlier and reduce computational load. Evaluations on Celeb-DF and FaceForensics++ show that AdaGate-DF outperforms existing models such as MaD-CoRN and DefakeHop++ while maintaining low inference latency and robust performance across varying resolutions and class imbalance scenarios.
The paper introduces LAION-Mobile, a 1‑million‑image dataset of modern smartphone photos with EXIF metadata, to test deepfake detectors in a realistic computational‑photography setting. Twelve state‑of‑the‑art detectors were evaluated on a 9,115‑image subset, revealing that none achieved an AUC above 0.624 on AI‑generated content and that many detectors’ false‑alarm rates spike when thresholds are recalibrated for modern smartphone imagery. The study shows that current detectors fail to maintain both high detection performance and low false‑alarm rates on contemporary smartphone photos, highlighting a critical gap in existing evaluation benchmarks.
arXiv:2609.14437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deepfake detection systems often exhibit significant performance degradation when deployed on unseen manipulation methods, limiting their reliability...
arXiv:2609.01027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection predicts whether a test image belongs to none of the predefined classes. To evaluate this task, benchmarks need ima...
arXiv:2607. 16283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of generative AI has outpaced our ability to reliably detect its outputs, particularly when detectors encounter generators they have not seen before.
arXiv:2609.14560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose object detectors lose accuracy on UAV footage, where targets span only a handful of pixels and onboard compute is limited. Prior work c...
arXiv:2605.31192v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generalizable deepfake detection requires complementary forensic and semantic visual evidence. Specialist encoders capture subtle manipulation trac...