Towards Generalizable Deepfake Image Detection with Vision Transformers

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Autores principales: Srinanda, Kaliki V, Prabhu, M Manvith, Mogilipalem, Hemanth K, Abhinai, Jayavarapu S, Santhosh, Vaibhav, Herur, Aryan, Vijayasenan, Deepu
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author Srinanda, Kaliki V
Prabhu, M Manvith
Mogilipalem, Hemanth K
Abhinai, Jayavarapu S
Santhosh, Vaibhav
Herur, Aryan
Vijayasenan, Deepu
author_facet Srinanda, Kaliki V
Prabhu, M Manvith
Mogilipalem, Hemanth K
Abhinai, Jayavarapu S
Santhosh, Vaibhav
Herur, Aryan
Vijayasenan, Deepu
contents In today's day and age, we face a challenge in detecting deepfake images because of the fast evolution of modern generative models and the poor generalization capability of existing methods. In this paper, we use an ensemble of fine-tuned vision transformers like DINOv2, AIMv2 and OpenCLIP's ViT-L/14 to create generalizable method to detect deepfakes. We use the DF-Wild dataset released as part of the IEEE SP Cup 2025, because it uses a challenging and diverse set of manipulations and generation techniques. We started our experiments with CNN classifiers trained on spatial features. Experimental results show that our ensemble outperforms individual models and strong CNN baselines, achieving an AUC of 96.77% and an Equal Error Rate (EER) of just 9% on the DF-Wild test set, beating the state-of-the-art deepfake detection algorithm Effort by 7.05% and 8% in AUC and EER respectively. This was the winning solution for SP Cup, presented at ICASSP 2025.
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spellingShingle Towards Generalizable Deepfake Image Detection with Vision Transformers
Srinanda, Kaliki V
Prabhu, M Manvith
Mogilipalem, Hemanth K
Abhinai, Jayavarapu S
Santhosh, Vaibhav
Herur, Aryan
Vijayasenan, Deepu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
In today's day and age, we face a challenge in detecting deepfake images because of the fast evolution of modern generative models and the poor generalization capability of existing methods. In this paper, we use an ensemble of fine-tuned vision transformers like DINOv2, AIMv2 and OpenCLIP's ViT-L/14 to create generalizable method to detect deepfakes. We use the DF-Wild dataset released as part of the IEEE SP Cup 2025, because it uses a challenging and diverse set of manipulations and generation techniques. We started our experiments with CNN classifiers trained on spatial features. Experimental results show that our ensemble outperforms individual models and strong CNN baselines, achieving an AUC of 96.77% and an Equal Error Rate (EER) of just 9% on the DF-Wild test set, beating the state-of-the-art deepfake detection algorithm Effort by 7.05% and 8% in AUC and EER respectively. This was the winning solution for SP Cup, presented at ICASSP 2025.
title Towards Generalizable Deepfake Image Detection with Vision Transformers
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17376