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Enhanced Deep Learning DeepFake Detection Integrating Handcrafted Features

Published: July 28, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2507.20608v1

By: Alejandro Hinke-Navarro , Mario Nieto-Hidalgo , Juan M. Espin and more

Potential Business Impact:

Catches fake faces in pictures and videos.

Plain English Summary

Imagine someone creating a fake video of you saying or doing something you never did, which could be used to trick people or steal your identity. This new method is like a super-powered lie detector for videos, able to spot even the most convincing fakes by looking at tiny details that normal methods miss. This means we can trust online videos more and be safer from scams or identity theft.

The rapid advancement of deepfake and face swap technologies has raised significant concerns in digital security, particularly in identity verification and onboarding processes. Conventional detection methods often struggle to generalize against sophisticated facial manipulations. This study proposes an enhanced deep-learning detection framework that combines handcrafted frequency-domain features with conventional RGB inputs. This hybrid approach exploits frequency and spatial domain artifacts introduced during image manipulation, providing richer and more discriminative information to the classifier. Several frequency handcrafted features were evaluated, including the Steganalysis Rich Model, Discrete Cosine Transform, Error Level Analysis, Singular Value Decomposition, and Discrete Fourier Transform

Country of Origin
🇩🇪 Germany

Page Count
11 pages

Category
Computer Science:
CV and Pattern Recognition