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Recent advancements in AI, especially deep learning, have contributed to a significant increase in the creation of new realistic-looking synthetic media (video, image, and audio) and manipulation of existing media, which has led to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Enes Altuncu , Virginia N. L. Franqueira , Shujun Li

Deepfakes are synthetic media that superimpose or generate someone's likeness on to pre-existing sound, images, or videos using deep learning methods. Existing accounts of the wrongs involved in creating and distributing deepfakes focus on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-15 James Ravi Kirkpatrick

Deepfake Technology Unveiled: The Commoditization of AI and Its Impact on Digital Trust. With the increasing accessibility of generative AI, tools for voice cloning, face-swapping, and synthetic media creation have advanced significantly,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Claudiu Popa , Rex Pallath , Liam Cunningham , Hewad Tahiri , Abiram Kesavarajah , Tao Wu

Deepfakes, synthetic media created using advanced AI techniques, pose a growing threat to information integrity, particularly in politically sensitive contexts. This challenge is amplified by the increasing realism of modern generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Victor Livernoche , Akshatha Arodi , Andreea Musulan , Zachary Yang , Adam Salvail , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Jean-François Godbout , Reihaneh Rabbany

Currently, the rapid development of computer vision and deep learning has enabled the creation or manipulation of high-fidelity facial images and videos via deep generative approaches. This technology, also known as deepfake, has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Lixia Ma , Puning Yang , Yuting Xu , Ziming Yang , Peipei Li , Huaibo Huang

Due to the widespread use of smartphones with high-quality digital cameras and easy access to a wide range of software apps for recording, editing, and sharing videos and images, as well as the deep learning AI platforms, a new phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Nikhil Sontakke , Sejal Utekar , Shivansh Rastogi , Shriraj Sonawane

With the rapid progress of recent years, techniques that generate and manipulate multimedia content can now guarantee a very advanced level of realism. The boundary between real and synthetic media has become very thin. On the one hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Luisa Verdoliva

Advances in deepfake technologies, which use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to mimic a person's likeness or voice, have led to growing interest in their use in educational contexts. However, little is known about how key…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jasper Roe , Mike Perkins , Klaire Somoray , Dan Miller , Leon Furze

The rapid development of technologies and artificial intelligence makes deepfakes an increasingly sophisticated and challenging-to-identify technique. To ensure the accuracy of information and control misinformation and mass manipulation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Paloma Cantero-Arjona , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

Deepfake is a deep learning-based technique that makes it easy to change or modify images and videos. In investigations and court, visual evidence is commonly employed, but these pieces of evidence may now be suspect due to technological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kundan Patil , Shrushti Kale , Jaivanti Dhokey , Abhishek Gulhane

Deep learning has been successfully appertained to solve various complex problems in the area of big data analytics to computer vision. A deep learning-powered application recently emerged is Deep Fake. It helps to create fake images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Jatin Sharma , Sahil Sharma

Deepfake detection refers to detecting artificially generated or edited faces in images or videos, which plays an essential role in visual information security. Despite promising progress in recent years, Deepfake detection remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Chunlei Peng , Huiqing Guo , Decheng Liu , Nannan Wang , Ruimin Hu , Xinbo Gao

It is becoming cheaper to launch disinformation operations at scale using AI-generated content, in particular 'deepfake' technology. We have observed instances of deepfakes in political campaigns, where generated content is employed to both…

The availability of smart devices leads to an exponential increase in multimedia content. However, advancements in deep learning have also enabled the creation of highly sophisticated Deepfake content, including speech Deepfakes, which pose…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Menglu Li , Yasaman Ahmadiadli , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Generative deep learning models are able to create realistic audio and video. This technology has been used to impersonate the faces and voices of individuals. These ``deepfakes'' are being used to spread misinformation, enable scams,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Guy Frankovits , Yisroel Mirsky

Deepfake is content or material that is synthetically generated or manipulated using artificial intelligence (AI) methods, to be passed off as real and can include audio, video, image, and text synthesis. This survey has been conducted with…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zahra Khanjani , Gabrielle Watson , Vandana P. Janeja

The emergence of deepfake technologies offers both opportunities and significant challenges. While commonly associated with deception, misinformation, and fraud, deepfakes may also enable novel applications in high-stakes contexts such as…

Deepfakes represent a growing concern across domains such as disinformation, fraud, and non-consensual media. In particular, the rise of video conference and identity-driven attacks in high-stakes scenarios--such as impostor hiring--demands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Sarah Barrington , Maty Bohacek , Hany Farid

For nearly a decade, deepfake detection has been framed as a classification task: given an audio or video clip, decide whether it is real or synthetic. Top detectors often report high accuracy on standard benchmarks; however, performance…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jessee Ho , Shweta Khushu , Shaina Raza

AI-generated synthetic media, also called Deepfakes, have significantly influenced so many domains, from entertainment to cybersecurity. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Diffusion Models (DMs) are the main frameworks used to…