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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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Deepfake Image Forensics for Privacy Protection and Authenticity Using Deep Learning

  • Saud Sohail,
  • Syed Muhammad Sajjad,
  • Adeel Zafar,
  • Zafar Iqbal,
  • Zia Muhammad and
  • Muhammad Kazim

27 March 2025

This research focuses on the detection of deepfake images and videos for forensic analysis using deep learning techniques. It highlights the importance of preserving privacy and authenticity in digital media. The background of the study emphasizes th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
39,062 Views
18 Pages

Deepfakes are realistic-looking fake media generated by deep-learning algorithms that iterate through large datasets until they have learned how to solve the given problem (i.e., swap faces or objects in video and digital content). The massive genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,260 Views
16 Pages

29 September 2024

SecureVision is an advanced and trustworthy deepfake detection system created to tackle the growing threat of ‘deepfake’ movies that tamper with media, undermine public trust, and jeopardize cybersecurity. We present a novel approach that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,666 Views
10 Pages

17 November 2022

Image manipulation of the human face is a trending topic of image forgery, which is done by transforming or altering face regions using a set of techniques to accomplish desired outputs. Manipulated face images are spreading on the internet due to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,150 Views
14 Pages

Developing an Image Manipulation Detection Algorithm Based on Edge Detection and Faster R-CNN

  • Xiaoyan Wei,
  • Yirong Wu,
  • Fangmin Dong,
  • Jun Zhang and
  • Shuifa Sun

1 October 2019

Due to the wide availability of the tools used to produce manipulated images, a large number of digital images have been tampered with in various media, such as newspapers and social networks, which makes the detection of tampered images particularly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,973 Views
13 Pages

Unmasking Deception: Empowering Deepfake Detection with Vision Transformer Network

  • Muhammad Asad Arshed,
  • Ayed Alwadain,
  • Rao Faizan Ali,
  • Shahzad Mumtaz,
  • Muhammad Ibrahim and
  • Amgad Muneer

29 August 2023

With the development of image-generating technologies, significant progress has been made in the field of facial manipulation techniques. These techniques allow people to easily modify media information, such as videos and images, by substituting the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,613 Views
15 Pages

Detecting Social Media Bots with Variational AutoEncoder and k-Nearest Neighbor

  • Xiujuan Wang,
  • Qianqian Zheng,
  • Kangfeng Zheng,
  • Yi Sui,
  • Siwei Cao and
  • Yutong Shi

13 June 2021

Malicious social media bots are disseminators of malicious information on social networks and seriously affect information security and the network environment. Efficient and reliable classification of social media bots is crucial for detecting infor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,058 Views
19 Pages

Image Region Duplication Forgery Detection Based on Angular Radial Partitioning and Harris Key-Points

  • Diaa M. Uliyan,
  • Hamid A. Jalab,
  • Ainuddin W. Abdul Wahab and
  • Somayeh Sadeghi

13 July 2016

Region duplication forgery where a part of the image itself is copied and pasted onto a different part of the same image grid is becoming more popular in image manipulation. The forgers often apply geometric transformations such as rotation and scali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,953 Views
21 Pages

28 February 2022

In the ultra-connected age of information, online social media platforms have become an indispensable part of our daily routines. Recently, this online public space is getting largely occupied by suspicious and manipulative social media bots. Such au...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,697 Views
19 Pages

4 June 2021

Illegally filmed images, the sharing of non-consensually filmed images over social media, and the secret recording and distribution of celebrity images are increasing. To catch distributors of illegally filmed images, many investigation techniques ba...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,742 Views
42 Pages

Interframe Forgery Video Detection: Datasets, Methods, Challenges, and Search Directions

  • Mona M. Ali,
  • Neveen I. Ghali,
  • Hanaa M. Hamza,
  • Khalid M. Hosny,
  • Eleni Vrochidou and
  • George A. Papakostas

The authenticity of digital video content has become a critical issue in multimedia security due to the significant rise in video editing and manipulation in recent years. The detection of interframe forgeries is essential for identifying manipulatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,455 Views
32 Pages

20 April 2022

Academic research in media forensics mainly focuses on methods for the detection of the traces or artefacts left by media manipulations in media objects. While the resulting detectors often achieve quite impressive detection performances, when tested...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,251 Views
16 Pages

Deepfakes are digital audio, video, or images manipulated using machine learning algorithms. These manipulated media files can convincingly depict individuals doing or saying things they never actually did. Deepfakes pose significant risks to our liv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,387 Views
21 Pages

The rapid advancement of deepfake technology presents significant challenges in detecting highly convincing fake videos, posing risks such as misinformation, identity theft, and privacy violations. In response, this paper proposes an innovative appro...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
9,314 Views
29 Pages

18 January 2023

With the current shift in the mass media landscape from journalistic rigor to social media, personalized social media is becoming the new norm. Although the digitalization progress of the media brings many advantages, it also increases the risk of sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,793 Views
15 Pages

28 September 2021

The detection of manipulated videos represents a highly relevant problem in multimedia forensics, which has been widely investigated in the last years. However, a common trait of published studies is the fact that the forensic analysis is typically a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
41,263 Views
26 Pages

Deepfake Attacks: Generation, Detection, Datasets, Challenges, and Research Directions

  • Amal Naitali,
  • Mohammed Ridouani,
  • Fatima Salahdine and
  • Naima Kaabouch

23 October 2023

Recent years have seen a substantial increase in interest in deepfakes, a fast-developing field at the nexus of artificial intelligence and multimedia. These artificial media creations, made possible by deep learning algorithms, allow for the manipul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,258 Views
20 Pages

Detection of Forged Images Using a Combination of Passive Methods Based on Neural Networks

  • Ancilon Leuch Alencar,
  • Marcelo Dornbusch Lopes,
  • Anita Maria da Rocha Fernandes,
  • Julio Cesar Santos dos Anjos,
  • Juan Francisco De Paz Santana and
  • Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt

In the current era of social media, the proliferation of images sourced from unreliable origins underscores the pressing need for robust methods to detect forged content, particularly amidst the rapid evolution of image manipulation technologies. Exi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,043 Views
17 Pages

17 September 2023

Deepfake detection is a focus of extensive research to combat the proliferation of manipulated media. Existing approaches suffer from limited generalizability and struggle to detect deepfakes created using unseen techniques. This paper proposes a nov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,662 Views
17 Pages

The unprecedented rise of deepfake technologies, leveraging sophisticated AI like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion-based models, presents both opportunities and challenges in terms of digital media authenticity. In response, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,297 Views
15 Pages

ADD: Attention-Based DeepFake Detection Approach

  • Aminollah Khormali and
  • Jiann-Shiun Yuan

Recent advancements of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) pose emerging yet serious privacy risks threatening digital media’s integrity and trustworthiness, specifically digital video, through synthesizing hyper-realistic images and videos,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,916 Views
13 Pages

19 September 2024

The proliferation of fake news across multiple modalities has emerged as a critical challenge in the modern information landscape, necessitating advanced detection methods. This study proposes a comprehensive framework for fake news detection integra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,061 Views
14 Pages

A Survey on Troll Detection

  • Michele Tomaiuolo,
  • Gianfranco Lombardo,
  • Monica Mordonini,
  • Stefano Cagnoni and
  • Agostino Poggi

10 February 2020

A troll is usually defined as somebody who provokes and offends people to make them angry, who wants to dominate any discussion or who tries to manipulate people’s opinions. The problems caused by such persons have increased with the diffusion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
13,979 Views
14 Pages

Deepfake Video Detection Based on MesoNet with Preprocessing Module

  • Zhiming Xia,
  • Tong Qiao,
  • Ming Xu,
  • Xiaoshuai Wu,
  • Li Han and
  • Yunzhi Chen

5 May 2022

With the development of computer hardware and deep learning, face manipulation videos represented by Deepfake have been widely spread on social media. From the perspective of symmetry, many forensics methods have been raised, while most detection per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,852 Views
12 Pages

A Dual-Branch Fusion Model for Deepfake Detection Using Video Frames and Microexpression Features

  • Georgios Petmezas,
  • Vazgken Vanian,
  • Manuel Pastor Rufete,
  • Eleana E. I. Almaloglou and
  • Dimitris Zarpalas

Deepfake detection has become a critical issue due to the rise of synthetic media and its potential for misuse. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to deepfake detection by combining video frame analysis with facial microexpression features. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,110 Views
34 Pages

Enhancing Propaganda Detection in Arabic News Context Through Multi-Task Learning

  • Lubna Al-Henaki,
  • Hend Al-Khalifa and
  • Abdulmalik Al-Salman

22 July 2025

Social media has become a platform for the rapid spread of persuasion techniques that can negatively affect individuals and society. Propaganda detection, a crucial task in natural language processing, aims to identify manipulative content in texts,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,709 Views
20 Pages

In the era of deepfakes and AI-generated content, digital image manipulation poses significant challenges to image authenticity, creating doubts about the credibility of images. Traditional image forensics techniques often struggle to detect sophisti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,134 Views
17 Pages

11 October 2025

Deepfake technology, which utilizes advanced AI models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), has led to the proliferation of highly convincing manipulated media, posing significant challenges for detection. Existing detection methods often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,141 Views
13 Pages

Multitask Image Splicing Tampering Detection Based on Attention Mechanism

  • Pingping Zeng,
  • Lianhui Tong,
  • Yaru Liang,
  • Nanrun Zhou and
  • Jianhua Wu

17 October 2022

In today’s modern communication society, the authenticity of digital media has never been of such importance as it is now. In this aspect, the reliability of digital images is of paramount importance because images can be easily manipulated by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,655 Views
13 Pages

Fake News: Offensive or Defensive Weapon in Information Warfare

  • Iuliu Moldovan,
  • Norbert Dezso,
  • Daniela Edith Ceană and
  • Toader Septimiu Voidăzan

30 July 2025

Background and Objectives: Rumors, disinformation, and fake news are problems of contemporary society. We live in a world where the truth no longer holds much importance, and the line that divides the truth from lies, between real news and disinforma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
20,562 Views
19 Pages

iCaps-Dfake: An Integrated Capsule-Based Model for Deepfake Image and Video Detection

  • Samar Samir Khalil,
  • Sherin M. Youssef and
  • Sherine Nagy Saleh

Fake media is spreading like wildfire all over the internet as a result of the great advancement in deepfake creation tools and the huge interest researchers and corporations are showing to explore its limits. Now anyone can create manipulated unethi...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
25,753 Views
38 Pages

Deepfake technology, which employs advanced generative artificial intelligence to create hyper-realistic synthetic media, poses significant challenges across various sectors, including security, entertainment, and education. This literature review ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,594 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2023

Recent advances in the field of collaborative robotics aim to endow industrial robots with prediction and anticipation abilities. In many shared tasks, the robot’s ability to accurately perceive and recognize the objects being manipulated by th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,577 Views
24 Pages

23 August 2023

Currently, video and digital images possess extensive utility, ranging from recreational and social media purposes to verification, military operations, legal proceedings, and penalization. The enhancement mechanisms of this medium have undergone sig...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,720 Views
16 Pages

Bot Detection on Social Networks Using Persistent Homology

  • Minh Nguyen,
  • Mehmet Aktas and
  • Esra Akbas

The growth of social media in recent years has contributed to an ever-increasing network of user data in every aspect of life. This volume of generated data is becoming a vital asset for the growth of companies and organizations as a powerful tool to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,136 Views
14 Pages

2 March 2012

The preparation of a fluorogenic sensory material for the detection of biomolecules is described. Strategic functionalisation and copolymerisation of a water insoluble organic sensory molecule with hydrophilic comonomers yielded a crosslinked, water-...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,949 Views
32 Pages

9 December 2020

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables three-dimensional imaging with resolution on the micrometer scale. The technique relies on the time-of-flight gated detection of light scattered from a sample and has received enormous interest in applicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,348 Views
22 Pages

28 December 2023

In the evolving landscape of digital media, the discipline of media forensics, which encompasses the critical examination and authentication of digital images, videos, and audio recordings, has emerged as an area of paramount importance. This heighte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,991 Views
20 Pages

A Multi-Level Annotation Model for Fake News Detection: Implementing Kazakh-Russian Corpus via Label Studio

  • Madina Sambetbayeva,
  • Anargul Nekessova,
  • Aigerim Yerimbetova,
  • Abdygalym Bayangali,
  • Mira Kaldarova,
  • Duman Telman and
  • Nurzhigit Smailov

This paper presents a multi-level annotation model for detecting fake news in Kazakh and Russian languages, aiming to enhance understanding of disinformation strategies in multilingual digital media environments. Unlike traditional binary models, our...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,229 Views
15 Pages

Social networks have become deeply integrated into our daily lives, leading to an increase in image sharing across different platforms. Simultaneously, the existence of robust and user-friendly media editors not only facilitates artistic innovation,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,215 Views
20 Pages

2 April 2018

Light manipulation has always been the fundamental subject in the field of optics since centuries ago. Traditional optical devices are usually designed using glasses and other materials, such as semiconductors and metals. Optofluidics is the combinat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,407 Views
18 Pages

1 September 2023

In recent years, groups of cyber criminals/hackers have carried out cyber-attacks using various tactics with the goal of destabilizing web services in a specific context for which they are motivated. Predicting these attacks is a critical task that a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,576 Views
14 Pages

Generated or Not Generated (GNG): The Importance of Background in the Detection of Fake Images

  • Marco Tanfoni,
  • Elia Giuseppe Ceroni,
  • Sara Marziali,
  • Niccolò Pancino,
  • Marco Maggini and
  • Monica Bianchini

10 August 2024

Facial biometrics are widely used to reliably and conveniently recognize people in photos, in videos, or from real-time webcam streams. It is therefore of fundamental importance to detect synthetic faces in images in order to reduce the vulnerability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,830 Views
13 Pages

Deep Learning for Combating Misinformation in Multicategorical Text Contents

  • Rafał Kozik,
  • Wojciech Mazurczyk,
  • Krzysztof Cabaj,
  • Aleksandra Pawlicka,
  • Marek Pawlicki and
  • Michał Choraś

7 December 2023

Currently, one can observe the evolution of social media networks. In particular, humans are faced with the fact that, often, the opinion of an expert is as important and significant as the opinion of a non-expert. It is possible to observe changes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,128 Views
10 Pages

Focusing Coherent Light through Volume Scattering Phantoms via Wavefront Shaping

  • Niklas Fritzsche,
  • Felix Ott,
  • Karsten Pink and
  • Alwin Kienle

11 October 2023

Manipulating the wavefront of coherent light incident on scattering media to enhance the imaging depth, sensitivity, and resolution is a common technique in biomedical applications. Local phase variations cause changes in the interference and can be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
11,541 Views
17 Pages

Meta-Chirality: Fundamentals, Construction and Applications

  • Xiaoliang Ma,
  • Mingbo Pu,
  • Xiong Li,
  • Yinghui Guo,
  • Ping Gao and
  • Xiangang Luo

Chiral metamaterials represent a special type of artificial structures that cannot be superposed to their mirror images. Due to the lack of mirror symmetry, cross-coupling between electric and magnetic fields exist in chiral mediums and present uniqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,500 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2025

Deepfake technology utilizes deep learning (DL)-based face manipulation techniques to seamlessly replace faces in videos, creating highly realistic but artificially generated content. Although this technology has beneficial applications in media and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,195 Views
26 Pages

Recent Advances in Digital Multimedia Tampering Detection for Forensics Analysis

  • Sami Bourouis,
  • Roobaea Alroobaea,
  • Abdullah M. Alharbi,
  • Murad Andejany and
  • Saeed Rubaiee

1 November 2020

In the digital multimedia era, digital forensics is becoming an emerging area of research thanks to the large amount of image and video files generated. Ensuring the integrity of such media is of great importance in many situations. This task has bec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,580 Views
29 Pages

Media Forensics Considerations on DeepFake Detection with Hand-Crafted Features

  • Dennis Siegel,
  • Christian Kraetzer,
  • Stefan Seidlitz and
  • Jana Dittmann

DeepFake detection is a novel task for media forensics and is currently receiving a lot of research attention due to the threat these targeted video manipulations propose to the trust placed in video footage. The current trend in DeepFake detection i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
87 Citations
14,682 Views
39 Pages

Seeing is not believing anymore. Different techniques have brought to our fingertips the ability to modify an image. As the difficulty of using such techniques decreases, lowering the necessity of specialized knowledge has been the focus for companie...

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