A Novel Unified Approach to Deepfake Detection

Advancements in the field of AI are increasingly giving rise to various threats, one of the most prominent being the synthesis and misuse of deepfakes. To sustain trust in this digital age, the detection and tagging of deepfakes are essential. In this paper, a novel architecture for deepfake detection in images and videos is presented. The architecture uses cross-attention between spatial and frequency domain features to classify an image as real or fake. This paper aims to develop a unified architecture and provide insights into each step. Through this approach, we achieve results competitive with the State-of-the-Art (SOTA). Furthermore, this approach generalizes well to cross-dataset testing, which is evident from the experimental results.