# Fooling State-of-the-Art Deepfake Detection with High-Quality Deepfakes

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05282 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.05282/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 26 of its 37 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 9 May 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 26 of 26)

- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.1556/) (2014)
- [EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.11946/) (2019)
- [Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.04958/) (2019)
- [Real-Time Single Image and Video Super-Resolution Using an Efficient Sub-Pixel Convolutional Neural Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.05158/) (2016)
- [FaceForensics++: Learning to Detect Manipulated Facial Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1901.08971/) (2019)
- [Celeb-DF: A Large-scale Challenging Dataset for DeepFake Forensics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.12962/) (2019)
- [How far are we from solving the 2D & 3D Face Alignment problem? (and a dataset of 230,000 3D facial landmarks)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.07332/) (2017)
- [Face X-ray for More General Face Forgery Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.13458/) (2019)
- [FSGAN: Subject Agnostic Face Swapping and Reenactment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.05932/) (2019)
- [Exposing Deep Fakes Using Inconsistent Head Poses](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.00661/) (2018)
- [BiSeNet V2: Bilateral Network with Guided Aggregation for Real-time Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.02147/) (2020)
- [Lips Don't Lie: A Generalisable and Robust Approach to Face Forgery Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.07657/) (2020)
- [DeepFakes: a New Threat to Face Recognition? Assessment and Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.08685/) (2018)
- [WildDeepfake: A Challenging Real-World Dataset for Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.01456/) (2021)
- [The DeepFake Detection Challenge (DFDC) Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.07397/) (2020)
- [MegaPortraits: One-shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatars](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.07621/) (2022)
- [Leveraging Real Talking Faces via Self-Supervision for Robust Forgery Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.07131/) (2022)
- [One Shot Face Swapping on Megapixels](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.04932/) (2021)
- [HifiFace: 3D Shape and Semantic Prior Guided High Fidelity Face Swapping](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09965/) (2021)
- [UIA-ViT: Unsupervised Inconsistency-Aware Method based on Vision Transformer for Face Forgery Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.12752/) (2022)
- [Deep Image Blending](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.11495/) (2019)
- [High-resolution Face Swapping via Latent Semantics Disentanglement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.15958/) (2022)
- [Region-Aware Face Swapping](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.04564/) (2022)
- [MOST-GAN: 3D Morphable StyleGAN for Disentangled Face Image Manipulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.01048/) (2021)
- [DFGC 2022: The Second DeepFake Game Competition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.15138/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [RealSeal: Revolutionizing Media Authentication with Real-Time Realism Scoring](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.17684/) (2024)
- [Through the Lens: Benchmarking Deepfake Detectors Against Moir'e-Induced Distortions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.23225/) (2025)
- [EEG-Features for Generalized Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.08527/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Due to the rising threat of deepfakes to security and privacy, it is most important to develop robust and reliable detectors. In this paper, we examine the need for high-quality samples in the training datasets of such detectors. Accordingly, we show that deepfake detectors proven to generalize well on multiple research datasets still struggle in real-world scenarios with well-crafted fakes. First, we propose a novel autoencoder for face swapping alongside an advanced face blending technique, which we utilize to generate 90 high-quality deepfakes. Second, we feed those fakes to a state-of-the-art detector, causing its performance to decrease drastically. Moreover, we fine-tune the detector on our fakes and demonstrate that they contain useful clues for the detection of manipulations. Overall, our results provide insights into the generalization of deepfake detectors and suggest that their training datasets should be complemented by high-quality fakes since training on mere research data is insufficient.