Adaptive Gated Deepfake Detection for Low-Resolution and Resource-Constrained Environments

Deepfake detection has become a fundamental component of modern media forensics. Despite significant progress in detection accuracy, most existing methods remain computationally intensive and parameter-heavy, limiting their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices that require real-time, on-site inference. This limitation is particularly critical in an era where mobile devices are extensively used for media-centric applications, including online payments, virtual meetings, and social networking. Meanwhile, due to the unique requirement of capturing extremely subtle forgery artifacts for deepfake detection, state-of-the-art quantization techniques usually underperform for such a challenging task. These fine-grained cues are highly sensitive to model compression and can be easily degraded during quantization, leading to noticeable performance drops. This challenge highlights the need for quantization strategies specifically designed to preserve the discriminative features essential for reliable deepfake detection. To address this gap, we propose DefakeQ, the first quantization framework tailored for deepfake detectors, enabling real-time deployment on edge devices. Our approach introduces a novel adaptive bidirectional compression strategy that simultaneously leverages feature correlations and eliminates redundancy, achieving an effective balance between model compactness and detection performance. Extensive experiments across five benchmark datasets and eleven state-of-the-art backbone detectors demonstrate that DeFakeQ consistently surpasses existing quantization and model compression baselines. Furthermore, we deploy DefakeQ on mobile devices in real-world scenarios, demonstrating its capability for real-time deepfake detection and its practical applicability in edge environments.

The rapid advancement of deepfake generation techniques poses significant threats to public safety and causes societal harm through the creation of highly realistic synthetic facial media. While existing detection methods demonstrate limitations in generalizing to emerging forgery patterns, this paper presents Deepfake Forensics Adapter (DFA), a novel dual-stream framework that synergizes vision-language foundation models with targeted forensics analysis. Our approach integrates a pre-trained CLIP model with three core components to achieve specialized deepfake detection by leveraging the powerful general capabilities of CLIP without changing CLIP parameters: 1) A Global Feature Adapter is used to identify global inconsistencies in image content that may indicate forgery, 2) A Local Anomaly Stream enhances the model's ability to perceive local facial forgery cues by explicitly leveraging facial structure priors, and 3) An Interactive Fusion Classifier promotes deep interaction and fusion between global and local features using a transformer encoder. Extensive evaluations of frame-level and video-level benchmarks demonstrate the superior generalization capabilities of DFA, particularly achieving state-of-the-art performance in the challenging DFDC dataset with frame-level AUC/EER of 0.816/0.256 and video-level AUC/EER of 0.836/0.251, representing a 4.8% video AUC improvement over previous methods. Our framework not only demonstrates state-of-the-art performance, but also points out a feasible and effective direction for developing a robust deepfake detection system with enhanced generalization capabilities against the evolving deepfake threats. Our code is available at https://github.com/Liao330/DFA.git

In this paper, we propose a characteristic-aware adaptive network named AdaForensics for deepfake detection. Most existing methods learn a fixed network to detect deepfakes based on carefully-designed network architectures. However, these methods employ the same deepfake detector for all the images despite of various facial characteristic, which fail to provide customized forgery detection for different individuals. To address this, our AdaForensics simultaneously learns characteristic-agnostic and characteristic-specific embeddings, where the detector dynamically adapts to varying faces with our designed hypernetwork on the fly. More specifically, our AdaForensics not only explores the shareable abstractions from various deepfake images, but also adapts the detector to the given characteristic at test time. To achieve this, we propose a two-branch HyperNetwork to learn an adaptive deepfake detector, which automatically adjusts the parameters based on characteristic of the input. Extensive experiments on widely-used datasets including FaceForensics, Celeb-DF and DFDC demonstrate our AdaForensics outperforms the state-of-the-art works.