Inconsistency-aware Multimodal Schrödinger Bridge for Deepfake Localization

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Autori principali: Xiong, Jiayu, Wang, Jing, Zhang, Qi, Wang, Wanlong, Xue, Jun
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author Xiong, Jiayu
Wang, Jing
Zhang, Qi
Wang, Wanlong
Xue, Jun
author_facet Xiong, Jiayu
Wang, Jing
Zhang, Qi
Wang, Wanlong
Xue, Jun
contents Audio-visual deepfake localization demands interval-level outputs that serve as temporal evidence. Despite recent progress, symmetric fusion under single-sided or asynchronous forgeries propagates cross-modal noise, degrading high-precision localization. We present IaMSB, an inconsistency-aware multimodal Schrödinger Bridge (SB) that jointly estimates cross-modal consistency and performs interval-level localization. Unlike diffusion models, SB minimizes path-distribution discrepancy and yields consistency scores without explicit noise injection or denoising. With the Schrödinger Bridge (SB), IaMSB unifies consistency estimation, cross-modal information selection, and bridge-step scheduling in one framework. Specifically, a lightweight coarse bridge first proposes candidate intervals and estimates cross-modal consistency; these statistics select cross-modal witness signals and allocate bridge steps asymmetrically across modalities. A refinement bridge then performs step-tuned fusion and outputs refined, time-aligned intervals. IaMSB anticipates single-sided and asynchronous forgeries and, using bottlenecked cross-modal interaction with step allocation, suppresses noise transfer, avoids unnecessary iterations. Across benchmarks, IaMSB stabilizes strict-IoU boundary precision, raising AP@0.95 by 3%~10%, and yields improved high-precision localization, particularly for single-sided forgeries.
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spellingShingle Inconsistency-aware Multimodal Schrödinger Bridge for Deepfake Localization
Xiong, Jiayu
Wang, Jing
Zhang, Qi
Wang, Wanlong
Xue, Jun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Audio-visual deepfake localization demands interval-level outputs that serve as temporal evidence. Despite recent progress, symmetric fusion under single-sided or asynchronous forgeries propagates cross-modal noise, degrading high-precision localization. We present IaMSB, an inconsistency-aware multimodal Schrödinger Bridge (SB) that jointly estimates cross-modal consistency and performs interval-level localization. Unlike diffusion models, SB minimizes path-distribution discrepancy and yields consistency scores without explicit noise injection or denoising. With the Schrödinger Bridge (SB), IaMSB unifies consistency estimation, cross-modal information selection, and bridge-step scheduling in one framework. Specifically, a lightweight coarse bridge first proposes candidate intervals and estimates cross-modal consistency; these statistics select cross-modal witness signals and allocate bridge steps asymmetrically across modalities. A refinement bridge then performs step-tuned fusion and outputs refined, time-aligned intervals. IaMSB anticipates single-sided and asynchronous forgeries and, using bottlenecked cross-modal interaction with step allocation, suppresses noise transfer, avoids unnecessary iterations. Across benchmarks, IaMSB stabilizes strict-IoU boundary precision, raising AP@0.95 by 3%~10%, and yields improved high-precision localization, particularly for single-sided forgeries.
title Inconsistency-aware Multimodal Schrödinger Bridge for Deepfake Localization
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23113