Self-Supervised Transformer with Domain Adaptive Reconstruction for General Face Forgery Video Detection

Face forgery videos have caused severe social public concern, and various detectors have been proposed recently. However, most of them are trained in a supervised manner with limited generalization when detecting videos from different forgery methods or real source videos. To tackle this issue, we explore to take full advantage of the difference between real and forgery videos by only exploring the common representation of real face videos. In this paper, a Self-supervised Transformer cooperating with Contrastive and Reconstruction learning (CoReST) is proposed, which is first pre-trained only on real face videos in a self-supervised manner, and then fine-tuned a linear head on specific face forgery video datasets. Two specific auxiliary tasks incorporated contrastive and reconstruction learning are designed to enhance the representation learning. Furthermore, a Domain Adaptive Reconstruction (DAR) module is introduced to bridge the gap between different forgery domains by reconstructing on unlabeled target videos when fine-tuning. Extensive experiments on public datasets demonstrate that our proposed method performs even better than the state-of-the-art supervised competitors with impressive generalization.

Deepfake Video Detection with Spatiotemporal Dropout Transformer

While the abuse of deepfake technology has caused serious concerns recently, how to detect deepfake videos is still a challenge due to the high photo-realistic synthesis of each frame. Existing image-level approaches often focus on single frame and ignore the spatiotemporal cues hidden in deepfake videos, resulting in poor generalization and robustness. The key of a video-level detector is to fully exploit the spatiotemporal inconsistency distributed in local facial regions across different frames in deepfake videos. Inspired by that, this paper proposes a simple yet effective patch-level approach to facilitate deepfake video detection via spatiotemporal dropout transformer. The approach reorganizes each input video into bag of patches that is then fed into a vision transformer to achieve robust representation. Specifically, a spatiotemporal dropout operation is proposed to fully explore patch-level spatiotemporal cues and serve as effective data augmentation to further enhance model's robustness and generalization ability. The operation is flexible and can be easily plugged into existing vision transformers. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach against 25 state-of-the-arts with impressive robustness, generalizability, and representation ability.

Interpretable Face Manipulation Detection via Feature Whitening

Why should we trust the detections of deep neural networks for manipulated faces? Understanding the reasons is important for users in improving the fairness, reliability, privacy and trust of the detection models. In this work, we propose an interpretable face manipulation detection approach to achieve the trustworthy and accurate inference. The approach could make the face manipulation detection process transparent by embedding the feature whitening module. This module aims to whiten the internal working mechanism of deep networks through feature decorrelation and feature constraint. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach can strike a balance between the detection accuracy and the model interpretability.