Deepfake Detection

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Deepfake detection studies how to distinguish authentic images, video, and audio from manipulated or AI-generated content, a capability important for verification and security. Detectors look for spatial and frequency artifacts, temporal or physiological irregularities, and inconsistencies across audio, video, and semantic or physical cues; some also use pretrained foundation models, vision-language reasoning, or watermarks. Beyond classifying media, methods increasingly aim to localize altered regions or time spans, identify sources, and provide evidence-grounded explanations. A central challenge is that strong results on familiar benchmarks often fail to transfer to unseen generators, real-world conditions, or degraded media, while shortcuts, calibration, and fairness complicate reliable deployment.

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  1. Temporal Slice Learning for AI-Generated Video Detection with 400×\times Fewer FLOPs

    Oct 26, 2026Wei Shang, Zhiyuan Li, Shengfeng HeDeepfake DetectionSynthetic Video Detection Benchmarks

    School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University

  2. Spectra: Multi-Scale Implicit Decomposition for Deepfake Detection

    Oct 22, 2026Dhananjaya Jayasundara, Kartik Narayan, Vishal M. PatelDeepfake Detection

    *All authors are with Johns Hopkins University

  3. MIG-COW: Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Deepfake Detectors via Gradient Decomposition

    Oct 22, 2026Wonjune Seo, Joonhyuk Baek, Yeseong Jung +1Adversarial AttacksTransfer-Based Adversarial Attacks

    Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea

  4. Verus-Insight: Towards Explainable Artifact Detection in AI-Generated Videos

    Oct 22, 2026Zhuoran Zhang, Yang Shi, Qixun Wang +11Synthetic Video Detection BenchmarksExplainable Deepfake Detection

    Peking University · Kling Team · HKUST (GZ) +2

  5. Beyond Shortcut Learning: Hierarchical Spatial Prototype Regularization for Face Forgery Detection

    Oct 21, 2026Chao Shuai, Shaojing Fan, Kun Pan +5Deepfake DetectionShortcut Learning

    State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · National University of Singapore, Singapore · South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

  6. From GAN-Based Models to GPT-5: A Taxonomy-Guided Study of Human Performance in Detecting Deepfake Face Images

    Oct 16, 2026Zhiqing Guo, Lixin Jia, Luning Sun +7Deepfake Detection

    Xinjiang University, China · University of Cambridge, UK · Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), Germany +2

  7. Deep Learning for Deepfake Image Detection: Comparative Model Evaluation and Gradient-Based Visual Attribution

    Oct 15, 2026Saad Korchi, Abderrahim WagaDeepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

    Euromed University of Fez, Fez, Morocco

  8. An Agentic ENF Framework for Forensic Video Authentication Against Generative AI

    Oct 15, 2026Ryan Wyton, Bacha RehmanVideo ForensicsDeepfake Detection

    Southampton Solent University

  9. Time to Fake It: Continual Machine Learning Intensifies Unfairness in Deepfake Detection

    Oct 15, 2026Kajaree Das, Oliver Böse, Subarnaduti Paul +2Algorithmic FairnessDeepfake Detection

    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  10. Beyond Generation: Using Multimodal LLMs as Detectors of LLM-Generated Deepfake Facial Images

    Oct 15, 2026Olivia Salamon, Virginia N. L. Franqueira, Shujun LiAI-Generated Image DetectionMultimodal Deepfake Detection

    Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) & School of Computing, University of Kent, London and South East University Group, Canterbury, UK

  11. RLDF: A Region-Level Deepfake Dataset and Benchmark for Partial-Face Manipulation Detection

    Oct 15, 2026Shukesh Reddy, Abhijit DasDeepfake DetectionImage Forgery Localization

    Machine Intelligence Group, Department of CS&IS Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India

  12. Physics-Aware Deepfake Detection via Distance-Speech Consistency

    Oct 13, 2026Kyeongrae Kim, Kim Sung-Bin, Oh Hyun-Bin +1Deepfake DetectionAudio Deepfake Detection

    School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Korea · Dept. of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Korea · School of Computing, KAIST, Korea

  13. COMPASS: Contextual Moment Prior Alignment for Generalizable AIGI Detection

    Oct 13, 2026Zhan Yang, Tiancheng Shen, Weijie Lyu +4AI-Generated Image DetectionDeepfake Detection

    Zhejiang University · University of California, Merced · KAUST +1

  14. EviStress: Evidence Stress Learning for Generalizable Face Forgery Detection with Textual Explanations

    Oct 12, 2026Jiuyao Jing, Xuanyu Yi, Yu Zheng +1Image Forgery DetectionDeepfake Detection

    School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

  15. Not Every Cue Is Evidence: Cue Supportability for Forensic Distillation in Face Forgery Detection

    Oct 12, 2026Binjia Zhou, Dawei Luo, Shuai Chen +7Explainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University · Ant Group · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University +1

  16. Not All Challenges Are Equal: Evaluating Interactive Liveness Detection Against Real-Time Face Swaps

    Oct 12, 2026Anton Firc, David Drtil, Martin Perešíni +3Face Presentation Attack DetectionDeepfake Detection

  17. RoboFake: Are Deepfake Detectors Ready for Humanoid Face Robots?

    Oct 9, 2026Hao Chen, Junnan XuDeepfake Detection

  18. Does an Illumination Prior Help Face-Swap Detection? A Controlled Study of Temporal Self-Blended Images

    Oct 8, 2026Danil Davydov, Bader Rasheed, Dmitriy VatolinImage Forgery DetectionDeepfake Detection

    Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia · Laboratory of Innovative Technologies for Processing Video Content, Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

  19. Camera-Noise Residuals for Face-Swap Detection: Redundant, Not Complementary, and Why

    Oct 8, 2026Danil Davydov, Bader Rasheed, Dmitriy VatolinDeepfake DetectionDigital Image Forensics

    Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia · Laboratory of Innovative Technologies for Processing Video Content, Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

  20. Stop My Dancing! Understanding, Detecting and Attributing Motion-Aware Deepfake Videos

    Oct 8, 2026Fazhong Liu, Yan Meng, Tian Dong +2Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  21. MSU Team at the Explainable Deepfake Detection Challenge 2026: Grounded Artifact Evidence for Deepfake Detection

    Oct 7, 2026Artem Filippov, Aleksandr Gushchin, Kirill Koltsov +2Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

    Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russia · MSU Institute for Artificial Intelligence Moscow, Russia

  22. MOTIF: Person-of-Interest Deepfake Detection Beyond 3DMM Coefficients

    Oct 7, 2026Giovanni Affatato, Sara Mandelli, Paolo Bestagini +1Deepfake Detection3D Morphable Models

    Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.

  23. Ariadne's Thread of LipSync: Unraveling Forgeries via Inconsistency between Lip Motions and Head Poses

    Oct 6, 2026Tianyi She, Jiawei Liu, Weifeng Liu +3Digital ForensicsDeepfake Detection

    University of Science and Technology of China, HeFei, China · Shanghai Jiaotong University · Peking University +1

  24. CCDF: A Benchmark Dataset for Deepfake Detection in Surveillance Footage

    Oct 6, 2026Baptiste Chopin, Thomas Swearingen, Arun Ross +2Deepfake DetectionVideo Surveillance

    da/sec – Biometrics and Security Research Group, Hochschule Darmstadt · Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University · STARS team, Inria Center at Université Côte d’Azur

  25. MTOR: Generalizable AI-Generated Video Detection with Multimodal Semantics and Temporal Over-Regularity

    Oct 5, 2026Hang Wang, Chao Shen, Lei Zhang +1Deepfake Detection

    Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China · Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  26. BabelFake: A Multilingual Audio-Visual DeepFake Benchmark

    Oct 5, 2026Carlotta Segna, Joel Tschesche, Anna RohrbachAudio Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    TU Darmstadt & Hessian.AI, Germany

  27. Certification of Real Images through Calibrated Content Authentication

    Oct 5, 2026Sarim Hashmi, Abdelrahman Elsayed, Mohammed Talha Alam +2Probability CalibrationDigital Image Forensics

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Mabuhay, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  28. Interpretable Deepfake Detection in Videos via Explicit Forensic Features and Temporal Modeling

    Oct 2, 2026Chahira Benhama, Mohand Saïd Allili, Assia HamadeneVideo ForensicsDeepfake Detection

    LARIVIA laboratory Dep. of Computer science and Eng. University of Quebec in Outaouais Gatineau, QC, Canada · LARIVIA laboratory and Mixed Research Unit INRS-UQO University of Quebec in Outaouais Gatineau, QC, Canada

  29. Revisiting Cross-Reconstruction for Generalizable Deepfake Detection

    Oct 1, 2026Bingjian Yang, Shilei Zhao, Zheng WangImage Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics

    National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China

  30. A Generalizable and Explainable Framework for Synthetic Video Detection Using First-Digit Gradient Statistics

    Sep 30, 2026Sidharth Shanu, Gautam Kumar, Tej SinghExplainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    B.Tech CSE IIT Jodhpur, India · School of Automation & Robotics GGSIPU, New Delhi, India · Centre for Artificial Intelligence MITS Gwalior, India