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The rapid advancement of deep generative models has significantly improved the realism of synthetic media, presenting both opportunities and security challenges. While deepfake technology has valuable applications in entertainment and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Arnesh Batra , Anushk Kumar , Jashn Khemani , Arush Gumber , Arhan Jain , Somil Gupta

Deepfake attacks, malicious manipulation of media containing people, are a serious concern for society. Conventional deepfake detection methods train supervised classifiers to distinguish real media from previously encountered deepfakes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Tal Reiss , Bar Cavia , Yedid Hoshen

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

Deepfake face not only violates the privacy of personal identity, but also confuses the public and causes huge social harm. The current deepfake detection only stays at the level of distinguishing true and false, and cannot trace the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Jiaxin Ai , Zhongyuan Wang , Baojin Huang , Zhen Han

Fake News and especially deepfakes (generated, non-real image or video content) have become a serious topic over the last years. With the emergence of machine learning algorithms it is now easier than ever before to generate such fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Lukas Kroiß , Johannes Reschke

AI-manipulated videos, commonly known as deepfakes, are an emerging problem. Recently, researchers in academia and industry have contributed several (self-created) benchmark deepfake datasets, and deepfake detection algorithms. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Jiameng Pu , Neal Mangaokar , Lauren Kelly , Parantapa Bhattacharya , Kavya Sundaram , Mobin Javed , Bolun Wang , Bimal Viswanath

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

The recent realistic creation and dissemination of so-called deepfakes poses a serious threat to social life, civil rest, and law. Celebrity defaming, election manipulation, and deepfakes as evidence in court of law are few potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Muhammad Umar Farooq , Ali Javed , Khalid Mahmood Malik , Muhammad Anas Raza

The recent emergence of machine-manipulated media raises an important societal question: how can we know if a video that we watch is real or fake? In two online studies with 15,016 participants, we present authentic videos and deepfakes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Matthew Groh , Ziv Epstein , Chaz Firestone , Rosalind Picard

Deep neural networks can generate images that are astonishingly realistic, so much so that it is often hard for humans to distinguish them from actual photos. These achievements have been largely made possible by Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Joel Frank , Thorsten Eisenhofer , Lea Schönherr , Asja Fischer , Dorothea Kolossa , Thorsten Holz

Most recent style-transfer techniques based on generative architectures are able to obtain synthetic multimedia contents, or commonly called deepfakes, with almost no artifacts. Researchers already demonstrated that synthetic images contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Luca Guarnera , Oliver Giudice , Sebastiano Battiato

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…

Deepfakes is a branch of malicious techniques that transplant a target face to the original one in videos, resulting in serious problems such as infringement of copyright, confusion of information, or even public panic. Previous efforts for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Zekun Sun , Yujie Han , Zeyu Hua , Na Ruan , Weijia Jia

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…

Generative neural network architectures such as GANs, may be used to generate synthetic instances to compensate for the lack of real data. However, they may be employed to create media that may cause social, political or economical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sara Abdali , M. Alex O. Vasilescu , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Facially manipulated images and videos or DeepFakes can be used maliciously to fuel misinformation or defame individuals. Therefore, detecting DeepFakes is crucial to increase the credibility of social media platforms and other media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Paarth Neekhara , Brian Dolhansky , Joanna Bitton , Cristian Canton Ferrer

Detecting deepfakes involving face-swaps presents a significant challenge, particularly in real-world scenarios where anyone can perform face-swapping with freely available tools and apps without any technical knowledge. Existing deepfake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Sudev Kumar Padhi , Harshit Kumar , Umesh Kashyap , Sk. Subidh Ali

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…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have become incredibly powerful in generating synthetic images. Of particular concern are generated images that resemble photographs as they aspire to represent real world events. Synthetic photographs may…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Melanie Mathys , Marco Willi , Raphael Meier

Multimodal generative models are rapidly evolving, leading to a surge in the generation of realistic video and audio that offers exciting possibilities but also serious risks. Deepfake videos, which can convincingly impersonate individuals,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Hannah Lee , Changyeon Lee , Kevin Farhat , Lin Qiu , Steve Geluso , Aerin Kim , Oren Etzioni