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Deepfake or synthetic images produced using deep generative models pose serious risks to online platforms. This has triggered several research efforts to accurately detect deepfake images, achieving excellent performance on publicly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sifat Muhammad Abdullah , Aravind Cheruvu , Shravya Kanchi , Taejoong Chung , Peng Gao , Murtuza Jadliwala , Bimal Viswanath

Altered and manipulated multimedia is increasingly present and widely distributed via social media platforms. Advanced video manipulation tools enable the generation of highly realistic-looking altered multimedia. While many methods have…

Cheapfake is a recently coined term that encompasses non-AI ("cheap") manipulations of multimedia content. Cheapfakes are known to be more prevalent than deepfakes. Cheapfake media can be created using editing software for image/video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen , Sohail Ahmed Khan , Cise Midoglu , Michael Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Minh-Son Dao

There are concerns that new approaches to the synthesis of high quality face videos may be misused to manipulate videos with malicious intent. The research community therefore developed methods for the detection of modified footage and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Gereon Fox , Wentao Liu , Hyeongwoo Kim , Hans-Peter Seidel , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

While deepfake technologies have predominantly been criticized for potential misuse, our study demonstrates their significant potential as tools for detecting, measuring, and mitigating biases in key societal domains. By employing deepfake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yizhi Liu , Balaji Padmanabhan , Siva Viswanathan

Detecting digital face manipulation in images and video has attracted extensive attention due to the potential risk to public trust. To counteract the malicious usage of such techniques, deep learning-based deepfake detection methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi

As neural networks become able to generate realistic artificial images, they have the potential to improve movies, music, video games and make the internet an even more creative and inspiring place. Yet, the latest technology potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Moritz Wolter , Felix Blanke , Raoul Heese , Jochen Garcke

Image manipulation is rapidly evolving, allowing the creation of credible content that can be used to bend reality. Although the results of deepfake detectors are promising, deepfakes can be made even more complicated to detect through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Davide Alessandro Coccomini , Roberto Caldelli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

Deepfakes images can erode trust in institutions and compromise election outcomes, as people often struggle to discern real images from deepfake images. Improving digital literacy can help address these challenges. Here, we compare the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Dominique Geissler , Claire Robertson , Stefan Feuerriegel

The growing reliance of society on social media for authentic information has done nothing but increase over the past years. This has only raised the potential consequences of the spread of misinformation. One of the growing methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Jacob Mallet , Natalie Krueger , Mounika Vanamala , Rushit Dave

Artificial intelligence (AI) in media has advanced rapidly over the last decade. The introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) improved the quality of photorealistic image generation. Diffusion models later brought a new era of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Redwan Hussain , Mizanur Rahman , Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee

The proliferation of deepfake media is raising concerns among the public and relevant authorities. It has become essential to develop countermeasures against forged faces in social media. This paper presents a comprehensive study on two new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Trung-Nghia Le , Huy H. Nguyen , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

DeepFake technology has gained significant attention due to its ability to manipulate facial attributes with high realism, raising serious societal concerns. Face-Swap DeepFake is the most harmful among these techniques, which fabricates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Pu Sun , Honggang Qi , Yuezun Li

Cheapfake is a recently coined term that encompasses non-AI ("cheap") manipulations of multimedia content. Cheapfakes are known to be more prevalent than deepfakes. Cheapfake media can be created using editing software for image/video…

Media forensics has attracted a lot of attention in the last years in part due to the increasing concerns around DeepFakes. Since the initial DeepFake databases from the 1st generation such as UADFV and FaceForensics++ up to the latest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Ruben Tolosana , Sergio Romero-Tapiador , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez

One of the most pressing challenges for the detection of face-manipulated videos is generalising to forgery methods not seen during training while remaining effective under common corruptions such as compression. In this paper, we examine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Alexandros Haliassos , Rodrigo Mira , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Generative models can synthesize highly realistic content, so-called deepfakes, that are already being misused at scale to undermine digital media authenticity. Current deepfake detection methods are unreliable for two reasons: (i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sarim Hashmi , Abdelrahman Elsayed , Mohammed Talha Alam , Samuele Poppi , Nils Lukas

Recent advances in generative models for language have enabled the creation of convincing synthetic text or deepfake text. Prior work has demonstrated the potential for misuse of deepfake text to mislead content consumers. Therefore,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jiameng Pu , Zain Sarwar , Sifat Muhammad Abdullah , Abdullah Rehman , Yoonjin Kim , Parantapa Bhattacharya , Mobin Javed , Bimal Viswanath

In today's era of digital misinformation, we are increasingly faced with new threats posed by video falsification techniques. Such falsifications range from cheapfakes (e.g., lookalikes or audio dubbing) to deepfakes (e.g., sophisticated AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Shruti Agarwal , Liwen Hu , Evonne Ng , Trevor Darrell , Hao Li , Anna Rohrbach

Over a five-year period, computing methods for generating high-fidelity, fictional depictions of people and events moved from exotic demonstrations by computer science research teams into ongoing use as a tool of disinformation. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Eric Horvitz