One of the most pressing challenges for the detection of face-manipulated videos is generalising to forgery methods not seen during training while remaining effective under common corruptions such as compression. In this paper, we examine whether we can tackle this issue by harnessing videos of real talking faces, which contain rich information on natural facial appearance and behaviour and are readily available in large quantities online. Our method, termed RealForensics, consists of two stages. First, we exploit the natural correspondence between the visual and auditory modalities in real videos to learn, in a self-supervised cross-modal manner, temporally dense video representations that capture factors such as facial movements, expression, and identity. Second, we use these learned representations as targets to be predicted by our forgery detector along with the usual binary forgery classification task; this encourages it to base its real/fake decision on said factors. We show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on cross-manipulation generalisation and robustness experiments, and examine the factors that contribute to its performance. Our results suggest that leveraging natural and unlabelled videos is a promising direction for the development of more robust face forgery detectors.
Learning to Discover Forgery Cues for Face Forgery Detection
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学网络空间安全学院）；RealAI Inc（RealAI公司）
With the rapid development of facial manipulation techniques, face forgery detection has received considerable attention in digital media forensics due to security concerns. Most existing methods formulate face forgery detection as a classification problem and utilize binary labels or manipulated region masks as supervision. However, without considering the correlation between local regions, these global supervisions are insufficient to learn a generalized feature and prone to overfitting. To address this issue, we propose a novel perspective of face forgery detection via local relation learni…
Image manipulation and forgery detection have been a topic of research for more than a decade now. New-age tools and large-scale social platforms have given space for manipulated media to thrive. These media can be potentially dangerous and thus innumerable methods have been designed and tested to prove their robustness in detecting forgery. However, the results reported by state-of-the-art systems indicate that supervised approaches achieve almost perfect performance but only with particular datasets. In this work, we analyze the issue of out-of-distribution generalisability of the current st…
DeepFake based digital facial forgery is threatening the public media security, especially when lip manipulation has been used in talking face generation, the difficulty of fake video detection is further improved. By only changing lip shape to match the given speech, the facial features of identity is hard to be discriminated in such fake talking face videos. Together with the lack of attention on audio stream as the prior knowledge, the detection failure of fake talking face generation also becomes inevitable. Inspired by the decision-making mechanism of human multisensory perception system,…
Videos are prone to tampering attacks that alter the meaning and deceive the audience. Previous video forgery detection schemes find tiny clues to locate the tampered areas. However, attackers can successfully evade supervision by destroying such clues using video compression or blurring. This paper proposes a video watermarking network for tampering localization. We jointly train a 3D-UNet-based watermark embedding network and a decoder that predicts the tampering mask. The perturbation made by watermark embedding is close to imperceptible. Considering that there is no off-the-shelf different…
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II（那不勒斯费德里科二世大学）
Due to limited computational and memory resources, current deep learning models accept only rather small images in input, calling for preliminary image resizing. This is not a problem for high-level vision problems, where discriminative features are barely affected by resizing. On the contrary, in image forensics, resizing tends to destroy precious high-frequency details, impacting heavily on performance. One can avoid resizing by means of patch-wise processing, at the cost of renouncing whole-image analysis. In this work, we propose a CNN-based image forgery detection framework which makes de…
Counterfactual Explanations for Face Forgery Detection via Adversarial Removal of Artifacts
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology（南京信息工程大学）
As the remarkable development of facial manipulation technologies is accompanied by severe security concerns, face forgery detection has become a recent research hotspot. Most existing detection methods train a binary classifier under global supervision to judge real or fake. However, advanced manipulations only perform small-scale tampering, posing challenges to comprehensively capture subtle and local forgery artifacts, especially in high compression settings and cross-dataset scenarios. To address such limitations, we propose a novel framework named Multi-modal Contrastive Classification by…
Not Every Cue Is Evidence: Cue Supportability for Forensic Distillation in Face Forgery Detection
School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学软件学院）；Ant Group（蚂蚁集团）；College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学计算机科学与技术学院）；College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology（浙江工业大学计算机科学与技术学院）
DeepShield: Fortifying Deepfake Video Detection with Local and Global Forgery Analysis
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；Pengcheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Guilin University of Electronic Technology（桂林电子科技大学）；Guangdong Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing（广东大数据分析与处理重点实验室）
Generalizable Deepfake Detection Based on Forgery-aware Layer Masking and Multi-artifact Subspace Decomposition
Engineering Research Center of Digital Forensics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology（南京信息工程大学数字取证教育部工程研究中心）
Agentic Tool-Augmented Reasoning for Explainable Image Forgery Detection
Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；Ant Digital Technologies, Ant Group（蚂蚁数字科技，蚂蚁集团）；Singapore University of Technology and Design（新加坡科技设计大学）；Singapore Management University（新加坡管理大学）
SelfTalk: A Self-Supervised Commutative Training Diagram to Comprehend 3D Talking Faces
Renmin University of China（中国人民大学）；Imperial College London（伦敦帝国理工学院）；Psyche AI Inc.（Psyche AI公司）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）
Is It Possible to Backdoor Face Forgery Detection with Natural Triggers?
School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；CRIPAC & MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所模式识别国家重点实验室与多模态人工智能系统实验室）；Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology（南京信息工程大学）
For realistic talking head generation, creating natural head motion while maintaining accurate lip synchronization is essential. To fulfill this challenging task, we propose DisCoHead, a novel method to disentangle and control head pose and facial expressions without supervision. DisCoHead uses a single geometric transformation as a bottleneck to isolate and extract head motion from a head-driving video. Either an affine or a thin-plate spline transformation can be used and both work well as geometric bottlenecks. We enhance the efficiency of DisCoHead by integrating a dense motion estimator a…
University Federico II of Naples（那不勒斯费德里科二世大学）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen（马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所）
A major challenge in DeepFake forgery detection is that state-of-the-art algorithms are mostly trained to detect a specific fake method. As a result, these approaches show poor generalization across different types of facial manipulations, e.g., from face swapping to facial reenactment. To this end, we introduce ID-Reveal, a new approach that learns temporal facial features, specific of how a person moves while talking, by means of metric learning coupled with an adversarial training strategy. The advantage is that we do not need any training data of fakes, but only train on real videos. Moreo…
Neural Text to Articulate Talk: Deep Text to Audiovisual Speech Synthesis achieving both Auditory and Photo-realism
National Technical University of Athens（雅典国家技术大学）；Athena Research Center（雅典娜研究中心）；Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH)（希腊研究与技术基金会（FORTH））
Recent works have shown how realistic talking face images can be obtained under the supervision of geometry guidance, e.g., facial landmark or boundary. To alleviate the demand for manual annotations, in this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised hybrid model (DAE-GAN) that learns how to reenact face naturally given large amounts of unlabeled videos. Our approach combines two deforming autoencoders with the latest advances in the conditional generation. On the one hand, we adopt the deforming autoencoder to disentangle identity and pose representations. A strong prior in talking face video…
University of Oxford（牛津大学）；Naver Corporation（Naver公司）
The objective of this paper is to learn representations of speaker identity without access to manually annotated data. To do so, we develop a self-supervised learning objective that exploits the natural cross-modal synchrony between faces and audio in video. The key idea behind our approach is to tease apart--without annotation--the representations of linguistic content and speaker identity. We construct a two-stream architecture which: (1) shares low-level features common to both representations; and (2) provides a natural mechanism for explicitly disentangling these factors, offering the pot…
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）
Over the past several years, in order to solve the problem of malicious abuse of facial manipulation technology, face manipulation detection technology has obtained considerable attention and achieved remarkable progress. However, most existing methods have very impoverished generalization ability and robustness. In this paper, we propose a novel method for face manipulation detection, which can improve the generalization ability and robustness by bag-of-local-feature. Specifically, we extend Transformers using bag-of-feature approach to encode inter-patch relationships, allowing it to learn l…
Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）；Samsung AI Centre, Cambridge（三星人工智能中心（剑桥））；Facebook London（Facebook（伦敦））
The intuitive interaction between the audio and visual modalities is valuable for cross-modal self-supervised learning. This concept has been demonstrated for generic audiovisual tasks like video action recognition and acoustic scene classification. However, self-supervision remains under-explored for audiovisual speech. We propose a method to learn self-supervised speech representations from the raw audio waveform. We train a raw audio encoder by combining audio-only self-supervision (by predicting informative audio attributes) with visual self-supervision (by generating talking faces from au…
Recap: Detecting Deepfake Video with Unpredictable Tampered Traces via Recovering Faces and Mapping Recovered Faces
College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University（湖南大学计算机科学与电子工程学院）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University（武汉大学网络空间安全学院）
本文提出 Recap 深度伪造检测模型，通过随机掩蔽 ROI 恢复人脸并以恢复结果监督面部映射，放大真假视频差异，在多个标准基准场景中验证有效。
Deepfake Generation and Detection: A Benchmark and Survey
East China Normal University（华东师范大学）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；Nanjing University（南京大学）；Youtu Lab, Tencent（腾讯优图实验室）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
EmoTalk: Speech-Driven Emotional Disentanglement for 3D Face Animation
Renmin University of China（中国人民大学）；Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Psyche AI Inc.（赛琪人工智能公司）；Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）
Samsung AI Center – Moscow（三星人工智能中心（莫斯科））；Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology（斯科尔科沃科学技术研究院）
We present a system for real-time RGBD-based estimation of 3D human pose. We use parametric 3D deformable human mesh model (SMPL-X) as a representation and focus on the real-time estimation of parameters for the body pose, hands pose and facial expression from Kinect Azure RGB-D camera. We train estimators of body pose and facial expression parameters. Both estimators use previously published landmark extractors as input and custom annotated datasets for supervision, while hand pose is estimated directly by a previously published method. We combine the predictions of those estimators into a te…
EDVD-LLaMA: Explainable Deepfake Video Detection via Multimodal Large Language Model Reasoning
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（电子与电气工程系，香港理工大学）；School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University（电子与电气工程学院，南洋理工大学）；Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology（智能工程学院，华南理工大学）
National Technical University of Athens（雅典国立技术大学）；Imperial College London（伦敦帝国理工学院）；Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena R.C.（雅典娜研究中心语言与语音处理研究所）；Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas（希腊研究与技术基金会）；University of Exeter（埃克塞特大学）
The recent state of the art on monocular 3D face reconstruction from image data has made some impressive advancements, thanks to the advent of Deep Learning. However, it has mostly focused on input coming from a single RGB image, overlooking the following important factors: a) Nowadays, the vast majority of facial image data of interest do not originate from single images but rather from videos, which contain rich dynamic information. b) Furthermore, these videos typically capture individuals in some form of verbal communication (public talks, teleconferences, audiovisual human-computer intera…
