# Glitch in the Matrix: A Large Scale Benchmark for Content Driven Audio-Visual Forgery Detection and Localization

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01979 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.01979/

## Key facts

- Cited by 43 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 80 of its 112 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 May 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 80)

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- [The Kinetics Human Action Video Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.06950/) (2017)
- [SlowFast Networks for Video Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.03982/) (2018)
- [WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.03499/) (2016)
- [FaceForensics++: Learning to Detect Manipulated Facial Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1901.08971/) (2019)
- [VoxCeleb2: Deep Speaker Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.05622/) (2018)
- [Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.05884/) (2017)
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- [Celeb-DF: A Large-scale Challenging Dataset for DeepFake Forensics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.12962/) (2019)
- [Rescaling Egocentric Vision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.13256/) (2020)
- [MoCoGAN: Decomposing Motion and Content for Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.04993/) (2017)
- [Thinking in Frequency: Face Forgery Detection by Mining Frequency-aware Clues](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.09355/) (2020)
- [MViTv2: Improved Multiscale Vision Transformers for Classification and Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.01526/) (2021)
- [Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.10135/) (2017)
- [Face X-ray for More General Face Forgery Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.13458/) (2019)
- [MesoNet: a Compact Facial Video Forgery Detection Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.00888/) (2018)
- [Soft-NMS -- Improving Object Detection With One Line of Code](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.04503/) (2017)
- [AD-NeRF: Audio Driven Neural Radiance Fields for Talking Head Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.11078/) (2021)
- [BMN: Boundary-Matching Network for Temporal Action Proposal Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.09702/) (2019)
- [FSGAN: Subject Agnostic Face Swapping and Reenactment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.05932/) (2019)
- [Exposing DeepFake Videos By Detecting Face Warping Artifacts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.00656/) (2018)
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- [ActionFormer: Localizing Moments of Actions with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.07925/) (2022)
- [Exposing Deep Fakes Using Inconsistent Head Poses](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.00661/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 43)

- [AV-Deepfake1M: A Large-Scale LLM-Driven Audio-Visual Deepfake Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.15308/) (2023)
- [Circumventing shortcuts in audio-visual deepfake detection datasets with unsupervised learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.00175/) (2024)
- [DiMoDif: Discourse Modality-information Differentiation for Audio-visual Deepfake Detection and Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.10193/) (2024)
- [TalkingHeadBench: A Multi-Modal Benchmark & Analysis of Talking-Head DeepFake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.24866/) (2025)
- [Coarse-to-Fine Proposal Refinement Framework for Audio Temporal Forgery Detection and Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.16554/) (2024)
- [A Multimodal Deviation Perceiving Framework for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Forgery Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.16596/) (2025)
- [AV-Deepfake1M++: A Large-Scale Audio-Visual Deepfake Benchmark with Real-World Perturbations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.20579/) (2025)
- [Open-Set Deepfake Detection: A Parameter-Efficient Adaptation Method with Forgery Style Mixture](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.12791/) (2024)
- [Contextual Cross-Modal Attention for Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection and Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.01532/) (2024)
- [Weakly-supervised Audio Temporal Forgery Localization via Progressive Audio-language Co-learning Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.01880/) (2025)
- [Tell me Habibi, is it Real or Fake?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.22581/) (2025)
- [Artifact Feature Purification for Cross-domain Detection of AI-generated Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.11172/) (2024)
- [Multiverse Through Deepfakes: The MultiFakeVerse Dataset of Person-Centric Visual and Conceptual Manipulations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.00868/) (2025)
- [KLASSify to Verify: Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection Using SSL-based Audio and Handcrafted Visual Features](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.07337/) (2025)
- [1M-Deepfakes Detection Challenge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.06991/) (2024)
- [DDL: A Large-Scale Dataset for Deepfake Detection and Localization in Diversified Real-World Scenarios](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.23292/) (2025)
- [AuViRe: Audio-visual Speech Representation Reconstruction for Deepfake Temporal Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.18993/) (2025)
- [TriDF: Evaluating Perception, Detection, and Hallucination for Interpretable DeepFake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.10652/) (2025)
- [LAVA: Layered Audio-Visual Anti-tampering Watermarking for Robust Deepfake Detection and Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.23957/) (2026)
- [Weakly Supervised Multimodal Temporal Forgery Localization via Multitask Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.02179/) (2025)
- [Pindrop it! Audio and Visual Deepfake Countermeasures for Robust Detection and Fine Grained-Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.08141/) (2025)
- [DeepfakeBench-MM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.22622/) (2025)
- [Context-aware TFL: A Universal Context-aware Contrastive Learning Framework for Temporal Forgery Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.08493/) (2025)
- [Next-Frame Feature Prediction for Multimodal Deepfake Detection and Temporal Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.10212/) (2025)
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- [Towards Generalizable Deepfake Detection via Forgery-aware Audio-Visual Adaptation: A Variational Bayesian Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.19080/) (2025)
- [Human Brain Exhibits Distinct Patterns When Listening to Fake Versus Real Audio: Preliminary Evidence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.14982/) (2024)
- [Unmasking Synthetic Realities in Generative AI: A Comprehensive Review of Adversarially Robust Deepfake Detection Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.21157/) (2025)
- [DeiTFake: Deepfake Detection Model using DeiT Multi-Stage Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.12048/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Most deepfake detection methods focus on detecting spatial and/or spatio-temporal changes in facial attributes and are centered around the binary classification task of detecting whether a video is real or fake. This is because available benchmark datasets contain mostly visual-only modifications present in the entirety of the video. However, a sophisticated deepfake may include small segments of audio or audio-visual manipulations that can completely change the meaning of the video content. To addresses this gap, we propose and benchmark a new dataset, Localized Audio Visual DeepFake (LAV-DF), consisting of strategic content-driven audio, visual and audio-visual manipulations. The proposed baseline method, Boundary Aware Temporal Forgery Detection (BA-TFD), is a 3D Convolutional Neural Network-based architecture which effectively captures multimodal manipulations. We further improve (i.e. BA-TFD+) the baseline method by replacing the backbone with a Multiscale Vision Transformer and guide the training process with contrastive, frame classification, boundary matching and multimodal boundary matching loss functions. The quantitative analysis demonstrates the superiority of BA-TFD+ on temporal forgery localization and deepfake detection tasks using several benchmark datasets including our newly proposed dataset. The dataset, models and code are available at https://github.com/ControlNet/LAV-DF.