Deepfake Detection Using Multiple Data Modalities

AbstractFalsified media threatens key areas of our society, ranging from politics to journalism to economics. Simple and inexpensive tools available today enable easy, credible manipulations of multimedia assets. Some even utilize advanced artificial intelligence concepts to manipulate media, resulting in videos known as deepfakes. Social media platforms and their “echo chamber” effect propagate fabricated digital content at scale, sometimes with dire consequences in real-world situations. However, ensuring semantic consistency across falsified media assets of different modalities is still very challenging for current deepfake tools. Therefore, cross-modal analysis (e.g., video-based and audio-based analysis) provides forensic analysts an opportunity to identify inconsistencies with higher accuracy. In this chapter, we introduce several approaches to detect deepfakes. These approaches leverage different data modalities, including video and audio. We show that the presented methods achieve accurate detection for various large-scale datasets.