arXiv Computer Vision By Juan Hu, Shaojing Fan, Sanjay Saha, Marc Herrera, Terence Sim

Can Tainted Pixels Expose Deepfake Videos?

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The paper introduces TaintedPixels, a proactive video‑protection technique that embeds subtle, structured perturbations into the blue channel of facial regions. These perturbations remain invisible in the original video but become noticeable after black‑box manipulation, thereby flagging deepfakes. Experiments on three off‑the‑shelf manipulation tools and two detectors show that TaintedPixels achieves the highest forgery detection rate while keeping visual distortion minimal (LPIPS = 0.0042), and a human study confirms that protected videos are rarely suspected, whereas forgeries from protected sources are identified as fake far more often than those from unprotected sources.

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