Face Swapping

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

10 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 342 papers with code (914 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• DeepFaceLab: Integrated, flexible and extensible face-swapping framework
  12 May 2020 22 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 7 samples · 5 unverified
  Deepfake defense not only requires the research of detection but also requires the efforts of generation methods.
• FaceForensics++: Learning to Detect Manipulated Facial Images
  25 Jan 2019 14 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 9 samples · 5 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  In particular, the benchmark is based on DeepFakes, Face2Face, FaceSwap and NeuralTextures as prominent representatives for facial manipulations at random compression level and size.
• FaceShifter: Towards High Fidelity And Occlusion Aware Face Swapping
  31 Dec 2019 10 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 6 samples · 0 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  We propose a novel attributes encoder for extracting multi-level target face attributes, and a new generator with carefully designed Adaptive Attentional Denormalization (AAD) layers to adaptively integrate the identity…
• The DeepFake Detection Challenge (DFDC) Dataset
  12 Jun 2020 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 3 samples · 2 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  In addition to Deepfakes, a variety of GAN-based face swapping methods have also been published with accompanying code.
• Celeb-DF: A Large-scale Challenging Dataset for DeepFake Forensics
  27 Sep 2019 8 repositories listed
  AI-synthesized face-swapping videos, commonly known as DeepFakes, is an emerging problem threatening the trustworthiness of online information.
• MesoNet: a Compact Facial Video Forgery Detection Network
  4 Sep 2018 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 6 samples · 5 unverified
  This paper presents a method to automatically and efficiently detect face tampering in videos, and particularly focuses on two recent techniques used to generate hyper-realistic forged videos: Deepfake and Face2Face.
• Analyzing Fairness in Deepfake Detection With Massively Annotated Databases
  11 Aug 2022 6 repositories listed
  In this work, we investigate factors causing biased detection in public Deepfake datasets by (a) creating large-scale demographic and non-demographic attribute annotations with 47 different attributes for five popular…
• Face X-ray for More General Face Forgery Detection
  31 Dec 2019 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 5 samples · 2 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
  For this reason, face X-ray provides an effective way for detecting forgery generated by most existing face manipulation algorithms.
• Automatic speaker verification spoofing and deepfake detection using wav2vec 2.0 and data augmentation
  24 Feb 2022 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified
  The performance of spoofing countermeasure systems depends fundamentally upon the use of sufficiently representative training data.
• Combining EfficientNet and Vision Transformers for Video Deepfake Detection
  6 Jul 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 7 of 14 samples · 7 unverified
  Traditionally, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been used to perform video deepfake detection, with the best results obtained using methods based on EfficientNet B7.
• SimSwap: An Efficient Framework For High Fidelity Face Swapping
  11 Jun 2021 3 repositories listed
  In contrast to previous approaches that either lack the ability to generalize to arbitrary identity or fail to preserve attributes like facial expression and gaze direction, our framework is capable of transferring the…
• M2TR: Multi-modal Multi-scale Transformers for Deepfake Detection
  20 Apr 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 11 samples · 7 unverified
  The widespread dissemination of Deepfakes demands effective approaches that can detect perceptually convincing forged images.
• DeepFakes and Beyond: A Survey of Face Manipulation and Fake Detection
  1 Jan 2020 3 repositories listed
  The free access to large-scale public databases, together with the fast progress of deep learning techniques, in particular Generative Adversarial Networks, have led to the generation of very realistic fake content with…
• Exposing DeepFake Videos By Detecting Face Warping Artifacts
  1 Nov 2018 3 repositories listed
  Compared to previous methods which use a large amount of real and DeepFake generated images to train CNN classifier, our method does not need DeepFake generated images as negative training examples since we target the…
• In Ictu Oculi: Exposing AI Generated Fake Face Videos by Detecting Eye Blinking
  7 Jun 2018 3 repositories listed
  The new developments in deep generative networks have significantly improve the quality and efficiency in generating realistically-looking fake face videos.
• Improving the Perturbation-Based Explanation of Deepfake Detectors Through the Use of Adversarially-Generated Samples
  6 Feb 2025 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we introduce the idea of using adversarially-generated samples of the input images that were classified as deepfakes by a detector, to form perturbation masks for inferring the importance of different…
• SegFace: Face Segmentation of Long-Tail Classes
  11 Dec 2024 2 repositories listed
  Face parsing refers to the semantic segmentation of human faces into key facial regions such as eyes, nose, hair, etc.
• Deepfake Media Generation and Detection in the Generative AI Era: A Survey and Outlook
  29 Nov 2024 2 repositories listed
  With the recent advancements in generative modeling, the realism of deepfake content has been increasing at a steady pace, even reaching the point where people often fail to detect manipulated media content online, thus…
• Orthogonal Subspace Decomposition for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection
  23 Nov 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 20 samples · 17 unverified · 20 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we start from a new perspective to excavate the reason behind the failure generalization in AIGI detection, named the \textit{asymmetry phenomenon}, where a naively trained detector tends to favor…
• Audio Deepfake Detection with Self-Supervised XLS-R and SLS Classifier
  28 Oct 2024 2 repositories listed
  To enhance the sensitivity of deepfake audio features, we propose a deepfake audio detection model that incorporates an SLS (Sensitive Layer Selection) module.
• FakeShield: Explainable Image Forgery Detection and Localization via Multi-modal Large Language Models
  3 Oct 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 6 samples · 3 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  The rapid development of generative AI is a double-edged sword, which not only facilitates content creation but also makes image manipulation easier and more difficult to detect.
• Speech Foundation Model Ensembles for the Controlled Singing Voice Deepfake Detection (CtrSVDD) Challenge 2024
  3 Sep 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  This work details our approach to achieving a leading system with a 1.
• WavLM model ensemble for audio deepfake detection
  14 Aug 2024 2 repositories listed
  Audio deepfake detection has become a pivotal task over the last couple of years, as many recent speech synthesis and voice cloning systems generate highly realistic speech samples, thus enabling their use in malicious…
• Evolving from Single-modal to Multi-modal Facial Deepfake Detection: A Survey
  11 Jun 2024 2 repositories listed
  We provide comprehensive taxonomies of detection techniques, discuss the evolution of generative methods from auto-encoders and GANs to diffusion models, and categorize these technologies by their unique attributes.
• CtrSVDD: A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline Analysis for Controlled Singing Voice Deepfake Detection
  4 Jun 2024 2 repositories listed
  Addressing these gaps, we introduce CtrSVDD, a large-scale, diverse collection of bonafide and deepfake singing vocals.
• Detecting music deepfakes is easy but actually hard
  7 May 2024 2 repositories listed
  In the face of a new era of generative models, the detection of artificially generated content has become a matter of utmost importance.
• Learning Spatiotemporal Inconsistency via Thumbnail Layout for Face Deepfake Detection
  15 Mar 2024 2 repositories listed
  The deepfake threats to society and cybersecurity have provoked significant public apprehension, driving intensified efforts within the realm of deepfake video detection.
• Unmasking Deepfake Faces from Videos Using An Explainable Cost-Sensitive Deep Learning Approach
  17 Dec 2023 2 repositories listed
  To create a reliable deepfake detection system, four pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models: XceptionNet, InceptionResNetV2, EfficientNetV2S, and EfficientNetV2M were used.
• Rethinking the Up-Sampling Operations in CNN-based Generative Network for Generalizable Deepfake Detection
  16 Dec 2023 2 repositories listed
  Recently, the proliferation of highly realistic synthetic images, facilitated through a variety of GANs and Diffusions, has significantly heightened the susceptibility to misuse.
• DeepFidelity: Perceptual Forgery Fidelity Assessment for Deepfake Detection
  7 Dec 2023 2 repositories listed
  Considering the complexity of the quality distribution of both real and fake faces, we propose a novel Deepfake detection framework named DeepFidelity to adaptively distinguish real and fake faces with varying image…

Syntology lines on 12 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.