Explainable Deepfake Detection

Overview

Explainable deepfake detection studies how to identify manipulated images, videos, and audio while making the evidence behind a prediction understandable and checkable. Approaches include highlighting suspicious regions or time segments, using explicit forensic and phonetic features, and training vision-language models to connect explanations to localized evidence. Evaluation uses datasets and benchmarks for detection, localization, explanation quality, and cross-dataset testing across generators, recording conditions, and media types. A central challenge is ensuring that convincing explanations reflect cues that actually drive the decision, while remaining reliable on unfamiliar manipulations and after compression or other changes.

Latest papers

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63 papers8 papers in the last four weeks, down 20% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection with Embedding-Space Explanations

    Nov 3, 2026Nikos Giakoumoglou, Paschalis Giakoumoglou, Tania Stathaki +1AI-Generated Image DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

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

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

  3. What Do Deepfake Audio Detectors Hear? From Self-Supervised Models to Audio LLMs

    Oct 13, 2026Wanying Ge, Xin Wang, Junichi YamagishiAudio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

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

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

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

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

  8. SEAR: Spoofing Evidence-Grounded Audio Reasoning Benchmark for Audio Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Rong Wan, Suliu Qin, Jiaxi Li +5Audio-Language Model EvaluationAudio Deepfake Detection

  9. 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

  10. Look Before You Judge: Training-Free Region Mining for Grounded and Explainable Deepfake Detection

    Sep 28, 2026Chia-Ling Chen, Yu-Ting Ta, Jian-Yu Jiang-Lin +8Explainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

  11. DF-CBM: Region-Aware Concept Bottleneck Models for Deepfake Detection

    Sep 28, 2026Georgios Tsoumplekas, Vazgken Vanian, Alexandros Doumanoglou +4Concept Bottleneck ModelsExplainable Deepfake Detection

  12. ASAP: Visual Analytics for Identifying and Analyzing Image Patterns in AI-generated Images

    Sep 23, 2026Jinbin Huang, Yuki Ueno, Chen Chen +4Image Forgery DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  13. PIVOT: Physics-Grounded Verification for AI-Generated Audio-Video Detection

    Sep 14, 2026Bo Zheng, Kangran Zhao, Xiaoyu Zhang +7Explainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

  14. Audio Deepfake Detection Using Temporal Coherence Analysis

    Sep 8, 2026Justin D. Norman, Sarah BarringtonAudio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  15. From Scores to Evidence: Auditable Decisions Can Improve Speech Deepfake Detection

    Sep 8, 2026Mengzhe Geng, Yujia Lu, Manuela Kunz +1Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  16. ToolDF: Tool-Integrated Reasoning for Mixed-Authenticity Audio Deepfake Detection

    Sep 3, 2026Taewoo Kim, Young Han Lee, Nam In Park +1Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  17. Explainable Deepfake Detection with Feature-robust Augmentation and Evidence-grounded Explanation Optimization

    Aug 21, 2026Zhu Xu, Jiaqi Tang, Pokai Chen +2Explainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

  18. Multi-Agent Forensic Reasoning for Generalizable Deepfake Video Detection

    Aug 7, 2026Xuechao Zou, Shun Zhang, Kai Li +6Explainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

  19. HexMIL: Hierarchical Attention MIL for Ante-Hoc Explainable Detection of AI-Manipulated CT Volumes

    Aug 5, 2026Orazio Pontorno, Luca Guarnera, Zahid Akhtar +1Explainable Deepfake DetectionMedical Image Anomaly Detection

  20. V-FIND: Revealing the Intrinsic Forgery Knowledge Encoded in Video Forgery Detectors

    Aug 4, 2026Shichao Kan, Chengpeng Hong, Jingtong Dou +8Explainable Deepfake DetectionMechanistic Interpretability

  21. Improved Robustness in AI-Generated Music Detection

    Jul 29, 2026Emile Dugelay, Thomas Barand, Aurélien Laouar +3Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  22. ThinkOmni: A Reasoning-Driven Omni-Modal LLM Framework for Audio Forgery Detection and Localization

    Jul 29, 2026Yuxiong Xu, Kaiqing Lin, Bin Li +2Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  23. LaP-Forensics: Latent-Pixel Consistency Guided Multimodal Reasoning for Deepfake Detection

    Jul 28, 2026Can Wang, Yuhao Wang, Yushe Cao +2Multimodal Deepfake DetectionDigital Image Forensics

  24. Toward Interpretable Speech Deepfake Detection using Artifact-Specific Experts and Calibrated Detection Scores

    Jul 23, 2026Viola Negroni, Xin Wang, Wanying Ge +3Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection