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Combating Digitally Altered Images: Deepfake Detection

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-08-28 v1 Artificial Intelligence Cryptography and Security

Abstract

The rise of Deepfake technology to generate hyper-realistic manipulated images and videos poses a significant challenge to the public and relevant authorities. This study presents a robust Deepfake detection based on a modified Vision Transformer(ViT) model, trained to distinguish between real and Deepfake images. The model has been trained on a subset of the OpenForensics Dataset with multiple augmentation techniques to increase robustness for diverse image manipulations. The class imbalance issues are handled by oversampling and a train-validation split of the dataset in a stratified manner. Performance is evaluated using the accuracy metric on the training and testing datasets, followed by a prediction score on a random image of people, irrespective of their realness. The model demonstrates state-of-the-art results on the test dataset to meticulously detect Deepfake images.

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@article{arxiv.2508.16975,
  title  = {Combating Digitally Altered Images: Deepfake Detection},
  author = {Saksham Kumar and Rhythm Narang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16975},
  year   = {2025}
}
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