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. Explainable Deepfake Detection Challenge

    Jul 23, 2026Abhijeet Narang, Kartik Kuckreja, Shreya Ghosh +4Image Forgery DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  2. Layer-Wise Decision Fusion for Fake Audio Detection Using XLS-R

    Jul 22, 2026Yixuan Xiao, Ngoc Thang VuAudio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  3. An Explainable FFT-Based Spatial-Frequency Fusion Framework for Deepfake Detection

    Jul 19, 2026Pamela Kirui, Cho Hyuk, Qingzhong Liu +1Explainable Deepfake DetectionFrequency-Domain Feature Learning

  4. Explainable-by-Design Audio Deepfake Detection via Wiener-Hopf Linear Prediction

    Jul 14, 2026Mattia Tamiazzo, Simone Milani, Massimo Iuliani +1Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  5. Evidence Subspace Projection: Measuring How Much Evidence Explains Deepfake Detection in Self-Supervised Speech Models

    Jul 13, 2026Yixuan Xiao, Cheng-Wei Lin, Xin Wang +5Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  6. Why Do You Say It Like That? A Phoneme-level Framework for Explainable Speech Deepfake Detection

    Jul 9, 2026Anna Taylor, Michele Panariello, Massimiliano Todisco +3Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  7. Why Fake ? Unveiling the Semantic Vocabulary of Deepfake Detectors

    Jul 8, 2026Vazgken Vanian, Alexandros Doumanoglou, Dimitris ZarpalasExplainable Artificial IntelligenceExplainable Deepfake Detection

  8. XPlainVerse: A Million-Scale Benchmark for Explainable Deepfake Detection

    Jul 3, 2026Abhijeet Narang, Kartik Kuckreja, Shreya Ghosh +3Image Forgery DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  9. Trustworthy Image Authentication using Forensic Knowledge Graphs

    Jun 22, 2026Tai D. Nguyen, Matthew C. StammImage Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics

  10. CUPID: Reconstructing UV Texture Maps for Interpretable Person-of-Interest Deepfake Detection

    Jun 18, 2026Giovanni Affatato, Sara Mandelli, Edoardo Daniele Cannas +2Explainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

  11. XAI-Grounded Explanation Generation for Speech Deepfake Detection with Training-Free Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jun 15, 2026Yupei Li, Qiyang Sun, Xiaoliang Wu +3Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Artificial Intelligence

  12. Phonetically Explainable Speech Deepfake Detection

    Jun 13, 2026Manasi Chhibber, Jagabandhu Mishra, Tomi H. KinnunenAudio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  13. The Perceived Fragility of Explanations in Audio Models: Manipulation of Attribution with Unchanged Predictions

    Jun 12, 2026Piotr Kitłowski, Dominik Wiącek, Mateusz ModrzejewskiAudio Deepfake DetectionAdversarial Attacks

  14. ForensicConcept: Transferable Forensic Concepts for AIGI Detection

    Jun 5, 2026Menyanshu Zhou, Ziyin Zhou, Ke Sun +4Explainable Deepfake DetectionConcept-Based Explanations

  15. The Regularizing Power of Language-Training Deepfake Detectors

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

  16. FakeVLM-R1: Internalizing Physical Laws via CoT for Synthetic Image Detection

    May 28, 2026Leqi Zhu, Junyan Ye, Kaiqing Lin +3Explainable Deepfake DetectionCoT Reasoning

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

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

  18. Beyond Seeing Is Believing: On Crowdsourced Detection of Audiovisual Deepfakes

    May 6, 2026Michael Soprano, Andrea Cioci, Stefano MizzaroAudio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  19. Omni-Fake: Benchmarking Unified Multimodal Social Media Deepfake Detection

    May 2, 2026Tianxiao Li, Zhenglin Huang, Haiquan Wen +10Multimodal Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  20. Interpretable facial dynamics as behavioral and perceptual traces of deepfakes

    Apr 23, 2026Timothy Joseph Murphy, Jennifer Cook, Hélio Clemente José CuveExplainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

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

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

  22. MedForge: Interpretable Medical Deepfake Detection via Forgery-aware Reasoning

    Mar 19, 2026Zhihui Chen, Kai He, Qingyuan Lei +4Image Forgery DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  23. Towards Robust Speech Deepfake Detection via Human-Inspired Reasoning

    Mar 11, 2026Artem Dvirniak, Evgeny Kushnir, Dmitrii Tarasov +5Audio Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  24. EvolveReason: Self-Evolving Reasoning Paradigm for Explainable Deepfake Facial Image Identification

    Mar 8, 2026Binjia Zhou, Dawei Luo, Shuai Chen +7Deepfake DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  25. Cultivating Forensic Reasoning for Generalizable Multimodal Manipulation Detection

    Mar 2, 2026Yuchen Zhang, Yaxiong Wang, Kecheng Han +4Multimodal Deception DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  26. MARE: Multimodal Alignment and Reinforcement for Explainable Deepfake Detection via Vision-Language Models

    Jan 28, 2026Wenbo Xu, Wei Lu, Xiangyang LuoExplainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection