Deepfake face detection via multi-level discrete wavelet transform and vision transformer
摘要
Face tampering, involving the modification of facial images using advanced software and deepfake technology, poses a significant security threat. Traditional face manipulation detection methods often struggle with limited frequency information, hindering their effectiveness. To address this, we propose a novel face tampering detection framework that combines multi-level discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and vision transformer. By extracting multi-level frequency features using DWT and capturing global inconsistencies across local face areas through the vision transformer, our approach reveals discriminative details and frequency information. We evaluate our method on public datasets, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy of 99.86% and 99.92% on FaceForensics++ and Celeb-DF, respectively. These results demonstrate the efficacy of our framework in detecting deepfake face images, paving the way for more robust facial manipulation detection systems. The source code of our proposed algorithm and the related datasets are available at https://github.com/shawn-zhangxiang/MLFFE_ViT.