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. GRIDEX: Grid-Grounded Forensic Explanations for Deepfake Spectrogram Analysis

    Jun 17, 2026Thi Ngan Ha Do, Tingmin Wu, Alsharif Abuadbba +1Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

    CSIRO, Australia

  2. Revealing Artifacts via Noise Amplification: A Novel Perspective for AI-Generated Video Detection

    Jun 15, 2026Renxi Cheng, Jie Gui, Hongsong WangDigital Image ForensicsDeepfake Detection

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 210000, China · Engineering Research Center of Blockchain Application, Supervision And Management (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, China +2

  3. Teacher-Student Structure for Domain Adaptation in Ensemble Audio-Visual Video Deepfake Detection

    Jun 13, 2026Elham Abolhasani, Maryam Ramezani, Hamid R. RabieeAudio Deepfake DetectionDomain Adaptation

    Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology.

  4. A Multi-Domain Feature Fusion Framework for Generalizable Deepfake Detection Across Different Generators

    Jun 12, 2026Amna Amjid, Sana Qadir, Mehwish Fatima +1Deepfake DetectionFeature Fusion

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan · Department of Communication, Quality Management and Information Systems, Mid Sweden University, Ostersund Campus, Sweden · Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.

  5. Detecting Temporally Localized Manipulations in Authentic Video Streams

    Jun 5, 2026Okan Umur, Ali Emre Güşlü, Ibrahim DelibasogluDeepfake DetectionTemporal Video Forgery Localization

    Department of Software Engineering Sakarya University Sakarya, Türkiye

  6. Architecture-Adaptive Uncertainty Fusion for Deepfake Detection

    Jun 4, 2026Ritesh Sharma, Mohammad Ghasemigol, Yuichi MotaiUncertainty QuantificationDigital Image Forensics

  7. ExpSpeech-Net: Multimodal Fusion of Expression and Speech for Deepfake Detection

    Jun 4, 2026Ruchika Sharma, Rudresh DwivediMultimodal Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    ISLBT · MPNCC

  8. IRIS-GAN: Staged Specialist Detection of Deepfake Faces

    Jun 3, 2026Jaume M. Trenchs, Veronica SanzDeepfake DetectionAI-Generated Image Detection

    aDepartamento de Física Teórica, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain · bInstituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC–Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

  9. ReConFuse: Reconstruction-Error Guided Semantic Fusion for AI-Generated Video Detection

    Jun 3, 2026Xiaojing Chen, Xinyu Lu, Changtao Miao +1Deepfake DetectionReconstruction-Based Anomaly Detection

    Anhui University · Ant Group · Hefei University of Technology

  10. Toward Calibrated, Fair, and accurate Deepfake Detection

    Jun 3, 2026Ryan Brown, Chris RussellAlgorithmic FairnessDeepfake Detection

    University of Oxford

  11. The DeepSpeak-Agentic Dataset

    Jun 2, 2026Sarah Barrington, Maty Bohacek, Hany FaridAI Agent EvaluationHuman-AI Interaction

    University of California, Berkeley, USA · Stanford University, USA

  12. Explainable Forensics of Manipulated Segments in Untrimmed Long Videos

    Jun 1, 2026Yue Feng, Jingjing Li, Qijia Lu +9Digital ForensicsDeepfake Detection

    MoE Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence Technology, College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Dalian University of Technology · Independent Scholar +2

  13. Divide and Conquer: Reliable Multi-View Evidential Learning for Deepfake Detection

    Jun 1, 2026Xiaolu Kang, Zhongyuan Wang, Jikang Cheng +5Evidential Deep LearningMulti-View Learning

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Information, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China +2

  14. Suppressing Forgery-Specific Shortcuts for Generalizable Deepfake Detection

    Jun 1, 2026Yihui Wang, Yonghui Yang, Jilong Liu +3OOD GeneralizationDeepfake Detection

    Hefei University of Technology China · National University of Singapore Singapore

  15. The Regularizing Power of Language-Training Deepfake Detectors

    May 29, 2026Benedikt Hopf, Zongwei Wu, Radu TimofteVLM RobustnessExplainable Deepfake Detection

    Computer Vision Lab, CAIDAS, University of Würzburg, Germany

  16. DeepFake Forensics AI: A Multi-Modal Detection and Blockchain-Anchored Evidence Management Platform

    May 28, 2026Naisha MinnahAudio Deepfake DetectionImage Forgery Detection

    Department of Computer Science Providence Women’s College, Calicut Affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala, India · Affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala, India

  17. Lightweight Complementary-Cue Fusion for Robust Video Face Forgery Detection

    May 27, 2026Sunghwan Baek, Tariq Anwaar, Karanveer Singh +1Frequency-Domain Feature LearningDeepfake Detection

    Carnegie Mellon University

  18. CoCoVideo: The High-Quality Commercial-Model-Based Contrastive Benchmark for AI-Generated Video Detection

    May 26, 2026Huidong Feng, Wentao Chen, Jie Chen +5Deepfake DetectionSynthetic Video Detection Benchmarks

    School of Informatics, Xiamen University · China Academy of Information and Communications Technology · AI Transcend Pte. Ltd.

  19. Segmentation-Guided Spatial Indexing for Generalizable and Explainable Deepfake Detection

    May 25, 2026Izaldein Al-Zyoud, Abdulmotaleb El SaddikExplainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    MCRLab, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

  20. Cross-Domain Generalization Limits of Vision Foundation Models in Facial Deepfake Detection

    May 24, 2026Ibrahim DelibasogluVision Foundation ModelsCross-Domain Generalization

    Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Sakarya University, Esentepe, Sakarya, 54050 Türkiye.

  21. Inconsistency-aware Multimodal Schrödinger Bridge for Deepfake Localization

    May 22, 2026Jiayu Xiong, Jing Wang, Qi Zhang +2Cross-Modal LearningMultimodal Robustness

    Department of Computer Science and Techonology, Huaqiao University · Xiamen Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Huaqiao University · Tongji University +1

  22. Video as Natural Augmentation: Towards Unified AI-Generated Image and Video Detection

    May 21, 2026Zhengcen Li, Chenyang Jiang, Liangxu Su +4Data AugmentationDeepfake Detection

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute · Pengcheng Laboratory

  23. EMO-BOOST: Emotion-Augmented Audio-Visual Features for Improved Generalization in Deepfake Detection

    May 19, 2026Aritra Marik, Marcel Klemt, Anna RohrbachAudio Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    Technical University of Darmstadt · ELIZA

  24. Scalable, Energy-Efficient Optical-Neural Architecture for Multiplexed Deepfake Video Detection

    May 19, 2026Parnian Ghapandar Kashani, Shiqi Chen, Aydogan OzcanEfficient Neural Network InferenceDeepfake Detection

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA · Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA · California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

  25. Deepfake Detection in Social Media: A Temporal Artifact Analysis Using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks

    May 17, 2026Mohammadreza Rashidi, Raja Hashim Ali, Sami Ur RahmanDeepfake Detection3D CNNs

    Department of Computer Science AI and Media Analysis Lab Berlin, Germany

  26. SpecSem-Net: Integrating Spectral and Semantic Features for Robust AI-generated Video Detection

    May 17, 2026Zixi Wei, Huixuaun Zhang, Xiaojun WanDigital ForensicsDeepfake Detection

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University

  27. CAM-VFD: Cross-Attention Multimodal Video Forgery Detection

    May 16, 2026Hoda Osama Elkhodary, Sherin Mostafa Youssef, Marwa Elshenawy +1Multimodal Deepfake DetectionMultimodal Robustness

    Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt

  28. Backbone is All You Need: Assessing Vulnerabilities of Frozen Foundation Models in Synthetic Image Forensics

    May 13, 2026Chiara Musso, Joy Battocchio, Andrea Montibeller +1Adversarial AttacksVision Transformer

    University of Trento Trento, Italy

  29. The Deepfakes We Missed: We Built Detectors for a Threat That Didn't Arrive

    May 12, 2026Shaina RazaDeepfake DetectionAI-Generated Image Detection

    Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Canada.

  30. The Alpha Blending Hypothesis: Compositing Shortcut in Deepfake Detection

    May 11, 2026Andrii Yermakov, Jan Cech, Mario Fritz +1Image Forgery DetectionDeepfake Detection

    Czech Technical University in Prague · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security