# Detecting Deepfake Talking Heads from Facial Biometric Anomalies

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08917 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.08917/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 14 of its 39 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 11 Jul 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 14 of 14)

- [XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.02754/) (2016)
- [Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.14808/) (2020)
- [Celeb-DF: A Large-scale Challenging Dataset for DeepFake Forensics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.12962/) (2019)
- [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)
- [Multi-attentional Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.02406/) (2021)
- [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)
- [AdvHat: Real-world adversarial attack on ArcFace Face ID system](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.08705/) (2019)
- [Two-Stream Neural Networks for Tampered Face Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.11276/) (2018)
- [Audio-Visual Person-of-Interest DeepFake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.03083/) (2022)
- [Lips Are Lying: Spotting the Temporal Inconsistency between Audio and Visual in Lip-Syncing DeepFakes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.15668/) (2024)
- [How Do the Hearts of Deep Fakes Beat? Deep Fake Source Detection via Interpreting Residuals with Biological Signals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.11363/) (2020)
- [Identity-Driven DeepFake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.03930/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Scalable, Energy-Efficient Optical-Neural Architecture for Multiplexed Deepfake Video Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.19360/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The combination of highly realistic voice cloning, along with visually compelling avatar, face-swap, or lip-sync deepfake video generation, makes it relatively easy to create a video of anyone saying anything. Today, such deepfake impersonations are often used to power frauds, scams, and political disinformation. We propose a novel forensic machine learning technique for the detection of deepfake video impersonations that leverages unnatural patterns in facial biometrics. We evaluate this technique across a large dataset of deepfake techniques and impersonations, as well as assess its reliability to video laundering and its generalization to previously unseen video deepfake generators.