Generalized Deepfakes Detection with Reconstructed-Blended Images and
  Multi-scale Feature Reconstruction Network
Yuyang Sun Huy H. Nguyen Chun-Shien Lu ZhiYong Zhang Lu Sun Isao Echizen
The growing diversity of digital face manipulation techniques has led to an
urgent need for a universal and robust detection technology to mitigate the
risks posed by malicious forgeries. We present a blended-based detection
approach that has robust applicability to unseen datasets. It combines a method
for generating synthetic training samples, i.e., reconstructed blended images,
that incorporate potential deepfake generator artifacts and a detection model,
a multi-scale feature reconstruction network, for capturing the generic
boundary artifacts and noise distribution anomalies brought about by digital
face manipulations. Experiments demonstrated that this approach results in
better performance in both cross-manipulation detection and cross-dataset
detection on unseen data.