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As deepfake technologies continue to advance, passive detection methods struggle to generalize with various forgery manipulations and datasets. Proactive defense techniques have been actively studied with the primary aim of preventing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Hongbo Li , Shangchao Yang , Ruiyang Xia , Lin Yuan , Xinbo Gao

Face-swapping techniques have advanced rapidly with the evolution of deep learning, leading to widespread use and growing concerns about potential misuse, especially in cases of fraud. While many efforts have focused on detecting swapped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhongyi Zhang , Jie Zhang , Wenbo Zhou , Xinghui Zhou , Qing Guo , Weiming Zhang , Tianwei Zhang , Nenghai Yu

The proliferation of diffusion-based deepfake technologies poses significant risks for unauthorized and unethical facial image manipulation. While traditional countermeasures have primarily focused on passive detection methods, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hon Ming Yam , Zhongliang Guo , Chun Pong Lau

The recently proposed facial cloaking attacks add invisible perturbation (cloaks) to facial images to protect users from being recognized by unauthorized facial recognition models. However, we show that the "cloaks" are not robust enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jing Wen

The rapid progress of Deepfake technology has made face swapping highly realistic, raising concerns about the malicious use of fabricated facial content. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to unseen domains due to the diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ke Sun , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Hong Liu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji

Although face swapping has attracted much attention in recent years, it remains a challenging problem. Existing methods leverage a large number of data samples to explore the intrinsic properties of face swapping without considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Qi Li , Weining Wang , Chengzhong Xu , Zhenan Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We propose a method for detecting face swapping and other identity manipulations in single images. Face swapping methods, such as DeepFake, manipulate the face region, aiming to adjust the face to the appearance of its context, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Yuval Nirkin , Lior Wolf , Yosi Keller , Tal Hassner

With the rise of cameras and smart sensors, humanity generates an exponential amount of data. This valuable information, including underrepresented cases like AI in medical settings, can fuel new deep-learning tools. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zikui Cai , Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Terrence Chen , M. Salman Asif , Ziyan Wu

Despite promising progress in face swapping task, realistic swapped images remain elusive, often marred by artifacts, particularly in scenarios involving high pose variation, color differences, and occlusion. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sanoojan Baliah , Qinliang Lin , Shengcai Liao , Xiaodan Liang , Muhammad Haris Khan

We propose an efficient framework, called Simple Swap (SimSwap), aiming for generalized and high fidelity face swapping. In contrast to previous approaches that either lack the ability to generalize to arbitrary identity or fail to preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Renwang Chen , Xuanhong Chen , Bingbing Ni , Yanhao Ge

Photos of faces uploaded online are vulnerable to malicious actors who can scrape facial images from online sources and intrude on personal privacy via unauthorized use of facial recognition models. This paper presents FaceCloak, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zachary Yahn , Fatih Ilhan , Tiansheng Huang , Selim Tekin , Sihao Hu , Yichang Xu , Margaret Loper , Ling Liu

Face-swapping models have been drawing attention for their compelling generation quality, but their complex architectures and loss functions often require careful tuning for successful training. We propose a new face-swapping model called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Jiseob Kim , Jihoon Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Privacy concerns around ever increasing number of cameras are increasing in today's digital age. Although existing anonymization methods are able to obscure identity information, they often struggle to preserve the utility of the images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe

The malicious applications of deep forgery, represented by face swapping, have introduced security threats such as misinformation dissemination and identity fraud. While some research has proposed the use of robust watermarking methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yunming Zhang , Dengpan Ye , Caiyun Xie , Long Tang , Chuanxi Chen , Ziyi Liu , Jiacheng Deng

Maliciously-manipulated images or videos - so-called deep fakes - especially face-swap images and videos have attracted more and more malicious attackers to discredit some key figures. Previous pixel-level artifacts based detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Weinan Guan , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Bo Peng , Tieniu Tan

We consider the problem of face swapping in images, where an input identity is transformed into a target identity while preserving pose, facial expression, and lighting. To perform this mapping, we use convolutional neural networks trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Iryna Korshunova , Wenzhe Shi , Joni Dambre , Lucas Theis

Diffusion-based approaches have recently achieved strong results in face swapping, offering improved visual quality over traditional GAN-based methods. However, even state-of-the-art models often suffer from fine-grained artifacts and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Weston Bondurant , Arkaprava Sinha , Hieu Le , Srijan Das , Stephanie Schuckers

With the flourishing prosperity of generative models, manipulated facial images have become increasingly accessible, raising concerns regarding privacy infringement and societal trust. In response, proactive defense strategies embed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yue Li , Linying Xue , Dongdong Lin , Qiushi Li , Hui Tian , Hongxia Wang

The spread of misinformation through synthetically generated yet realistic images and videos has become a significant problem, calling for robust manipulation detection methods. Despite the predominant effort of detecting face manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Ekraam Sabir , Jiaxin Cheng , Ayush Jaiswal , Wael AbdAlmageed , Iacopo Masi , Prem Natarajan

Video face swapping aims to address two primary challenges: effectively transferring the source identity to the target video and accurately preserving the dynamic attributes of the target face, such as head poses, facial expressions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiangyang Luo , Ye Zhu , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Cong Wan , Zijian Cai , Shao-Lun Huang , Yu Li