2021/09/13 by Yuankun Yang, Chenyue Liang, Yang, Yuankun +7 · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Image Processing Techniques #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Digital Media Forensic Detection #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis #Machine Learning (cs.LG)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.05673
openalex publication_date 2021/09/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Existing deepfake-detection methods focus on passive detection, i.e., they detect fake face images via exploiting the artifacts produced during deepfake manipulation. A key limitation of passive detection is that it cannot detect fake faces that are generated by new deepfake generation methods. In this work, we propose FaceGuard, a proactive deepfake-detection framework. FaceGuard embeds a watermark into a real face image before it is published on social media. Given a face image that claims to be an individual (e.g., Nicolas Cage), FaceGuard extracts a watermark from it and predicts the face image to be fake if the extracted watermark does not match well with the individual's ground truth one. A key component of FaceGuard is a new deep-learning-based watermarking method, which is 1) robust to normal image post-processing such as JPEG compression, Gaussian blurring, cropping, and resizing, but 2) fragile to deepfake manipulation. Our evaluation on multiple datasets shows that FaceGuard can detect deepfakes accurately and outperforms existing methods.