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Main Authors: Shi, Haohan, Shi, Xiyu, Dogan, Safak, Huang, Tianjin, Zhang, Yunxiao
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01467
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author Shi, Haohan
Shi, Xiyu
Dogan, Safak
Huang, Tianjin
Zhang, Yunxiao
author_facet Shi, Haohan
Shi, Xiyu
Dogan, Safak
Huang, Tianjin
Zhang, Yunxiao
contents The rise of highly convincing synthetic speech poses a growing threat to audio communications. Although existing Audio Deepfake Detection (ADD) methods have demonstrated good performance under clean conditions, their effectiveness drops significantly under degradations such as packet losses and speech codec compression in real-world communication environments. In this work, we propose the first unified framework for robust ADD under such degradations, which is designed to effectively accommodate multiple types of Time-Frequency (TF) representations. The core of our framework is a novel Multi-Granularity Adaptive Attention (MGAA) architecture, which employs a set of customizable multi-scale attention heads to capture both global and local receptive fields across varying TF granularities. A novel adaptive fusion mechanism subsequently adjusts and fuses these attention branches based on the saliency of TF regions, allowing the model to dynamically reallocate its focus according to the characteristics of the degradation. This enables the effective localization and amplification of subtle forgery traces. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across various real-world communication degradation scenarios, including six speech codecs and five levels of packet losses. In addition, comparative analysis reveals that the MGAA-enhanced features significantly improve separability between real and fake audio classes and sharpen decision boundaries. These results highlight the robustness and practical deployment potential of our framework in real-world communication environments.
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spellingShingle Multi-Granularity Adaptive Time-Frequency Attention Framework for Audio Deepfake Detection under Real-World Communication Degradations
Shi, Haohan
Shi, Xiyu
Dogan, Safak
Huang, Tianjin
Zhang, Yunxiao
Audio and Speech Processing
The rise of highly convincing synthetic speech poses a growing threat to audio communications. Although existing Audio Deepfake Detection (ADD) methods have demonstrated good performance under clean conditions, their effectiveness drops significantly under degradations such as packet losses and speech codec compression in real-world communication environments. In this work, we propose the first unified framework for robust ADD under such degradations, which is designed to effectively accommodate multiple types of Time-Frequency (TF) representations. The core of our framework is a novel Multi-Granularity Adaptive Attention (MGAA) architecture, which employs a set of customizable multi-scale attention heads to capture both global and local receptive fields across varying TF granularities. A novel adaptive fusion mechanism subsequently adjusts and fuses these attention branches based on the saliency of TF regions, allowing the model to dynamically reallocate its focus according to the characteristics of the degradation. This enables the effective localization and amplification of subtle forgery traces. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across various real-world communication degradation scenarios, including six speech codecs and five levels of packet losses. In addition, comparative analysis reveals that the MGAA-enhanced features significantly improve separability between real and fake audio classes and sharpen decision boundaries. These results highlight the robustness and practical deployment potential of our framework in real-world communication environments.
title Multi-Granularity Adaptive Time-Frequency Attention Framework for Audio Deepfake Detection under Real-World Communication Degradations
topic Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01467