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Deepfake technology, driven by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), poses significant risks to privacy and societal security. Existing detection methods are predominantly passive, focusing on post-event analysis without preventing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Mengxiao Huang , Minglei Shu , Shuwang Zhou , Zhaoyang Liu

Generating synthetic fake faces, known as pseudo-fake faces, is an effective way to improve the generalization of DeepFake detection. Existing methods typically generate these faces by blending real or fake faces in spatial domain. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hanzhe Li , Jiaran Zhou , Yuezun Li , Baoyuan Wu , Bin Li , Junyu Dong

The Deepfake phenomenon has become very popular nowadays thanks to the possibility to create incredibly realistic images using deep learning tools, based mainly on ad-hoc Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). In this work we focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Luca Guarnera , Oliver Giudice , Sebastiano Battiato

The effectiveness of deepfake detection methods often depends less on their core design and more on implementation details such as data preprocessing, augmentation strategies, and optimization techniques. These factors make it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Lorenzo Pellegrini , Serafino Pandolfini , Davide Maltoni , Matteo Ferrara , Marco Prati , Marco Ramilli

With generative models proliferating at a rapid rate, there is a growing need for general purpose fake image detectors. In this work, we first show that the existing paradigm, which consists of training a deep network for real-vs-fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Utkarsh Ojha , Yuheng Li , Yong Jae Lee

Creating fake images and videos such as "Deepfake" has become much easier these days due to the advancement in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Moreover, recent research such as the few-shot learning can create highly realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hyeonseong Jeon , Youngoh Bang , Simon S. Woo

Advancements in deep generative models such as generative adversarial networks and variational autoencoders have resulted in the ability to generate realistic images that are visually indistinguishable from real images, which raises…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Tarik Dzanic , Karan Shah , Freddie Witherden

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have paved the path towards entirely new media generation capabilities at the forefront of image, video, and audio synthesis. However, they can also be misused and abused to fabricate elaborate lies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Wei Huang , Michelangelo Valsecchi , Michael Multerer

Deepfake detection remains highly challenging, particularly in cross-dataset scenarios and complex real-world settings. This challenge mainly arises because artifact patterns vary substantially across different forgery methods, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiang Zhang , Wenliang Weng , Daoyong Fu , Beijing Chen , Ziqiang Li , Ziwen He , Zhangjie Fu

Recent advances in image generation have led to the widespread availability of highly realistic synthetic media, increasing the difficulty of reliable deepfake detection. A key challenge is generalization, as detectors trained on a narrow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yichen Jiang , Mohammed Talha Alam , Sohail Ahmed Khan , Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen , Fakhri Karray

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image synthesis, but the generated high-quality images raise concerns about potential malicious use. Existing detectors often struggle to capture discriminative clues across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daichi Zhang , Tong Zhang , Shiming Ge , Sabine Süsstrunk

DeepFake involves the use of deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques to produce or change video and image contents typically generated by GANs. Moreover, it can be misused and leads to fictitious news, ethical and financial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Mahsa Soleimani , Ali Nazari , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

Multi-step or hybrid deepfakes, created by sequentially applying different deepfake creation methods such as Face-Swapping, GAN-based generation, and Diffusion methods, can pose an emerging and unforseen technical challenge for detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Minji Heo , Simon S. Woo

Deepfake detection faces a critical generalization hurdle, with performance deteriorating when there is a mismatch between the distributions of training and testing data. A broadly received explanation is the tendency of these detectors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhiyuan Yan , Yuhao Luo , Siwei Lyu , Qingshan Liu , Baoyuan Wu

The rapid advancement of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models has enabled the creation of highly realistic synthetic images, presenting significant societal risks, such as misinformation and deception. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiazhen Yan , Ziqiang Li , Fan Wang , Ziwen He , Zhangjie Fu

In recent years, DeepFake is becoming a common threat to our society, due to the remarkable progress of generative adversarial networks (GAN) in image synthesis. Unfortunately, existing studies that propose various approaches, in fighting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Run Wang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Meng Luo , Yang Liu , Lina Wang

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of highly realistic fake facial images, posing serious threats to personal privacy and the integrity of online information. Existing deepfake detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Huanhuan Yuan , Yang Ping , Zhengqin Xu , Junyi Cao , Shuai Jia , Chao Ma

This study explores the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to detect AI deepfakes and fraudulent activities in online payment systems. With the growing prevalence of deepfake technology, which can manipulate facial features in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zong Ke , Shicheng Zhou , Yining Zhou , Chia Hong Chang , Rong Zhang

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

Existing deepfake detectors face several challenges in achieving robustness and generalization. One of the primary reasons is their limited ability to extract relevant information from forgery videos, especially in the presence of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Zhiyuan Yan , Peng Sun , Yubo Lang , Shuo Du , Shanzhuo Zhang , Wei Wang , Lei Liu