Detection of Deepfake Videos Using Long-Distance Attention

IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems  ·  2024

Wei Lu; Lingyi Liu; Bolin Zhang; Junwei Luo; Xianfeng Zhao; Yicong Zhou; Jiwu Huang;

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In this article, the problem is treated as a special fine-grained classification problem since the differences between fake and real faces are very subtle.

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ABSTRACT

With the rapid progress of deepfake techniques in recent years, facial video forgery can generate highly deceptive video content and bring severe security threats. And detection of such forgery videos is much more urgent and challenging. Most existing detection methods treat the problem as a vanilla binary classification problem. In this article, the problem is treated as a special fine-grained classification problem since the differences between fake and real faces are very subtle. It is observed that most existing face forgery methods left some common artifacts in the spatial domain and time domain, including generative defects in the spatial domain and interframe inconsistencies in the time domain. And a spatial-temporal model is proposed which has two components for capturing spatial and temporal forgery traces from a global perspective, respectively. The two components are designed using a novel long-distance attention mechanism. One component of the spatial domain is used to capture artifacts in a single frame, and the other component of the time domain is used to capture artifacts in consecutive frames. They generate attention maps in the form of patches. The attention method has a broader vision which contributes to better assembling global information and extracting local statistic information. Finally, the attention maps are used to guide the network to focus on pivotal parts of the face, just like other fine-grained classification methods. The experimental results on different public datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance, and the proposed long-distance attention method can effectively capture pivotal parts for face forgery.

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