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. Deepfake Detection Generalization with Diffusion Noise

    Apr 16, 2026Hongyuan Qi, Wenjin Hou, Hehe Fan +1Deepfake Detection

    Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  2. The Synthetic Media Shift: Tracking the Rise, Virality, and Detectability of AI-Generated Multimodal Misinformation

    Apr 15, 2026Zacharias Chrysidis, Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos, Symeon PapadopoulosMisinformation DiffusionDeepfake Detection

    Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

  3. VRAG-DFD: Verifiable Retrieval-Augmentation for MLLM-based Deepfake Detection

    Apr 15, 2026Hui Han, Shunli Wang, Yandan Zhao +2Multimodal Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent Youtu Lab

  4. Direct Discrepancy Replay: Distribution-Discrepancy Condensation and Manifold-Consistent Replay for Continual Face Forgery Detection

    Apr 14, 2026Tianshuo Zhang, Haoyuan Zhang, Siran Peng +3Deepfake DetectionReplay-Based Continual Learning

    SAI, UCAS · MAIS, CASIA · IIE, CAS +2

  5. Listening Deepfake Detection: A New Perspective Beyond Speaking-Centric Forgery Analysis

    Apr 14, 2026Miao Liu, Fangda Wei, Jing Wang +1Deepfake Detection

    University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

  6. Curvelet-Based Frequency-Aware Feature Enhancement for Deepfake Detection

    Apr 13, 2026Salar Adel Sabri, Ramadhan J. MstafaDeepfake DetectionFrequency-Domain Feature Learning

    Department of Computer Science, College of Science, University of Zakho, Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. · PRIME Lab, Scientific Research Center, University of Zakho, Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

  7. Aletheia: Physics-Conditioned Localized Artifact Attention (PhyLAA-X) for End-to-End Generalizable and Robust Deepfake Video Detection

    Apr 13, 2026Devendra GhoriDeepfake Detection

    Researcher, Aletheia Project

  8. LRD-Net: A Lightweight Real-Centered Detection Network for Cross-Domain Face Forgery Detection

    Apr 13, 2026Xuecen Zhang, Vipin ChaudharyDeepfake Detection

    Department of Computer and Data Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

  9. DeFakeQ: Enabling Real-Time Deepfake Detection on Edge Devices via Adaptive Bidirectional Quantization

    Apr 10, 2026Xiangyu Li, Yujing Sun, Yuhang Zheng +2Adaptive QuantizationDeepfake Detection

    Digital Trust Centre, Nanyang Technological University · School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University

  10. Face-D(^2)CL: Multi-Domain Synergistic Representation with Dual Continual Learning for Facial DeepFake Detection

    Apr 9, 2026Yushuo Zhang, Yu Cheng, Yongkang Hu +3Deepfake DetectionDomain-Incremental Learning

    East China Normal University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China

  11. Beyond Surface Artifacts: Capturing Shared Latent Forgery Knowledge Across Modalities

    Apr 9, 2026Jingtong Dou, Chuancheng Shi, Jian Wang +3Multimodal Deepfake DetectionMultimodal Domain Generalization

    The University of Sydney · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications · National University of Singapore

  12. MSCT: Differential Cross-Modal Attention for Deepfake Detection

    Apr 9, 2026Fangda Wei, Miao Liu, Yingxue Wang +3Deepfake DetectionMultimodal Deepfake Detection

    Beijing Institute of Technology, China · China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology, China

  13. Preserving Forgery Artifacts: AI-Generated Video Detection at Native Scale

    Apr 6, 2026Zhengcen Li, Chenyang Jiang, Hang Zhao +7Synthetic Video Detection BenchmarksDeepfake Detection

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Peng Cheng Laboratory · Peking University

  14. LAA-X: Unified Localized Artifact Attention for Quality-Agnostic and Generalizable Face Forgery Detection

    Apr 5, 2026Dat Nguyen, Enjie Ghorbel, Anis Kacem +2Deepfake DetectionImage Forgery Localization

    CVI2, SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg · CRISTAL laboratory, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia · SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  15. ATSS: Detecting AI-Generated Videos via Anomalous Temporal Self-Similarity

    Apr 5, 2026Hang Wang, Chao Shen, Lei Zhang +1Deepfake DetectionMultimodal Anomaly Detection

    Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China · School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA 98402, USA

  16. SPARK-IL: Spectral Retrieval-Augmented RAG for Knowledge-driven Deepfake Detection via Incremental Learning

    Apr 4, 2026Hessen Bougueffa Eutamene, Abdellah Zakaria Sellam, Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed +1Deepfake DetectionAI-Generated Image Detection

    Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France · Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems – Lecce, Italy · Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Italy +1

  17. ActivityForensics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Localizing Manipulated Activity in Videos

    Apr 4, 2026Peijun Bao, Anwei Luo, Gang Pan +2Temporal Video Forgery LocalizationVideo Forensics

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University · School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics +3

  18. LOGER: Local--Global Ensemble for Robust Deepfake Detection in the Wild

    Apr 4, 2026Fei Wu, Dagong Lu, Mufeng Yao +2Deepfake DetectionDeep Ensembles

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · INTSIG Information

  19. Moiré Video Authentication: A Physical Signature Against AI Video Generation

    Apr 2, 2026Yuan Qing, Kunyu Zheng, Lingxiao Li +2Digital ForensicsDeepfake Detection

    Boston University, Boston, USA

  20. CIPHER: Counterfeit Image Pattern High-level Examination via Representation

    Mar 31, 2026Kyeonghun Kim, Youngung Han, Seoyoung Ju +9Deepfake DetectionAI-Generated Image Detection

    OUTTA · Seoul National University

  21. GazeCLIP: Gaze-Guided CLIP with Adaptive-Enhanced Fine-Grained Language Prompt for Deepfake Attribution and Detection

    Mar 31, 2026Yaning Zhang, Linlin Shen, Zitong Yu +2Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, 250014, China · Computer Vision Institute, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China · National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing Technology, Shenzhen University +5

  22. Face2Parts: Exploring Coarse-to-Fine Inter-Regional Facial Dependencies for Generalized Deepfake Detection

    Mar 27, 2026Kutub Uddin, Nusrat Tasnim, Byung Tae OhDeepfake Detection

  23. SAVe: Self-Supervised Audio-visual Deepfake Detection Exploiting Visual Artifacts and Audio-visual Misalignment

    Mar 26, 2026Sahibzada Adil Shahzad, Ammarah Hashmi, Junichi Yamagishi +5Multimodal Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    Social Networks and Human-Centered Computing Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan · Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, Taipei 11529, Taiwan · Institute of Information Systems and Applications, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan +4

  24. Unleashing Vision-Language Semantics for Deepfake Video Detection

    Mar 25, 2026Jiawen Zhu, Yunqi Miao, Xueyi Zhang +2Deepfake DetectionVision-Language Alignment

    Singapore Management University, Singapore · The University of Warwick, UK · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore +1

  25. Tutor-Student Reinforcement Learning: A Dynamic Curriculum for Robust Deepfake Detection

    Mar 25, 2026Zhanhe Lei, Zhongyuan Wang, Jikang Cheng +5Deepfake DetectionCurriculum RL

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University · School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University · School of Information, Huazhong Agricultural University +1

  26. Beyond Semantic Priors: Mitigating Optimization Collapse for Generalizable Visual Forensics

    Mar 25, 2026Jipeng Liu, Haichao Shi, Siyu Xing +2Deepfake DetectionDigital Image Forensics

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100193, China · School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  27. Leave No Stone Unturned: Uncovering Holistic Audio-Visual Intrinsic Coherence for Deepfake Detection

    Mar 25, 2026Jielun Peng, Yabin Wang, Yaqi Li +2Deepfake DetectionAudio Deepfake Detection

    Harbin Institute of Technology

  28. VIGIL: Part-Grounded Structured Reasoning for Generalizable Deepfake Detection

    Mar 23, 2026Xinghan Li, Junhao Xu, Jingjing ChenExplainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

  29. GenVideoLens: Where LVLMs Fall Short in AI-Generated Video Detection?

    Mar 19, 2026Yueying Zou, Pei Pei Li, Zekun Li +4Synthetic Video Detection BenchmarksDeepfake Detection

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA · Center for Research on Intelligent Perception and Computing, NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  30. Evidence Packing for Cross-Domain Image Deepfake Detection with LVLMs

    Mar 18, 2026Yuxin Liu, Fei Wang, Kun Li +4Deepfake DetectionVLM Inference

    Anhui University · IAI, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center · Hefei University of Technology +1