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While the technologies empowering malicious audio deepfakes have dramatically evolved in recent years due to generative AI advances, the same cannot be said of global research into spoofing (deepfake) countermeasures. This paper highlights…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Héctor Delgado , Giorgio Ramondetti , Emanuele Dalmasso , Gennady Karvitsky , Daniele Colibro , Haydar Talib

Deepfake videos present an increasing threat to society with potentially negative impact on criminal justice, democracy, and personal safety and privacy. Meanwhile, detecting deepfakes, at scale, remains a very challenging task that often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mulin Tian , Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Joe Mathai , Wael AbdAlmageed

Deep generative models have recently achieved impressive results for many real-world applications, successfully generating high-resolution and diverse samples from complex datasets. Due to this improvement, fake digital contents have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Ricard Durall , Margret Keuper , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper

This demonstration paper presents $\mathbf{LayLens}$, a tool aimed to make deepfake understanding easier for users of all educational backgrounds. While prior works often rely on outputs containing technical jargon, LayLens bridges the gap…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Abhijeet Narang , Parul Gupta , Liuyijia Su , Abhinav Dhall

Deepfakes, created using advanced AI techniques such as Variational Autoencoder and Generative Adversarial Networks, have evolved from research and entertainment applications into tools for malicious activities, posing significant threats…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yamini Sri Krubha , Aryana Hou , Braden Vester , Web Walker , Xin Wang , Li Lin , Shu Hu

Since photorealistic faces can be readily generated by facial manipulation technologies nowadays, potential malicious abuse of these technologies has drawn great concerns. Numerous deepfake detection methods are thus proposed. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Rui Shao , Tianxing Wu , Ziwei Liu

AI-generated synthetic media are increasingly used in real-world scenarios, often with the purpose of spreading misinformation and propaganda through social media platforms, where compression and other processing can degrade fake detection…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Stefano Dell'Anna , Andrea Montibeller , Giulia Boato

This research explores the positive application of deepfake technology for upper body generation, specifically sign language for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHoH) community. Given the complexity of sign language and the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shahzeb Naeem , Muhammad Riyyan Khan , Usman Tariq , Abhinav Dhall , Carlos Ivan Colon , Hasan Al-Nashash

Self-supervised representations excel at many vision and speech tasks, but their potential for audio-visual deepfake detection remains underexplored. Unlike prior work that uses these features in isolation or buried within complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dragos-Alexandru Boldisor , Stefan Smeu , Dan Oneata , Elisabeta Oneata

This study addresses the critical challenge of detecting DeepFake tweets by leveraging advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques to distinguish between genuine and AI-generated texts. Given the increasing prevalence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Adam Frej , Adrian Kaminski , Piotr Marciniak , Szymon Szmajdzinski , Soveatin Kuntur , Anna Wroblewska

AI-generated media has become a threat to our digital society as we know it. These forgeries can be created automatically and on a large scale based on publicly available technology. Recognizing this challenge, academics and practitioners…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Joel Frank , Franziska Herbert , Jonas Ricker , Lea Schönherr , Thorsten Eisenhofer , Asja Fischer , Markus Dürmuth , Thorsten Holz

This article examines public exposure to and perceptions of deepfakes based on insights from a nationally representative survey of 1403 UK adults. The survey is one of the first of its kind since recent improvements in deepfake technology…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tvesha Sippy , Florence Enock , Jonathan Bright , Helen Z. Margetts

Trust in social media is a growing concern due to its ability to influence significant societal changes. However, this space is increasingly compromised by various types of deepfake multimedia, which undermine the authenticity of shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Muhammad Umar Farooq , Awais Khan , Ijaz Ul Haq , Khalid Mahmood Malik

Deepfakes have rapidly emerged as a serious threat to society due to their ease of creation and dissemination, triggering the accelerated development of detection technologies. However, many existing detectors rely on labgenerated datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Binh M. Le , Jiwon Kim , Simon S. Woo , Kristen Moore , Alsharif Abuadbba , Shahroz Tariq

AI technology has enabled the creation of deepfakes: hyper-realistic synthetic media. We surveyed 315 individuals in the U.S. on their views regarding the hypothetical non-consensual creation of deepfakes depicting them, including deepfakes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Natalie Grace Brigham , Miranda Wei , Tadayoshi Kohno , Elissa M. Redmiles

As speech generation technology advances, the risk of misuse through deepfake audio has become a pressing concern, which underscores the critical need for robust detection systems. However, many existing speech deepfake datasets are limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wen Huang , Yanmei Gu , Zhiming Wang , Huijia Zhu , Yanmin Qian

The metaverse has gained significant attention from various industries due to its potential to create a fully immersive and interactive virtual world. However, the integration of deepfakes in the metaverse brings serious security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shahroz Tariq , Alsharif Abuadbba , Kristen Moore

Deep-learning-based technologies such as deepfakes ones have been attracting widespread attention in both society and academia, particularly ones used to synthesize forged face images. These automatic and professional-skill-free face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 YuYang Sun , ZhiYong Zhang , Isao Echizen , Huy H. Nguyen , ChangZhen Qiu , Lu Sun

Deep learning has enabled realistic face manipulation (i.e., deepfake), which poses significant concerns over the integrity of the media in circulation. Most existing deep learning techniques for deepfake detection can achieve promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Bosheng Yan , Chang-Tsun Li , Xuequan Lu

Social media for news consumption is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its low cost, easy access, and rapid dissemination of information lead people to seek out and consume news from social media. On the other hand, it enables the wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kai Shu , Amy Sliva , Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu