Leveraging temporal attention and bidirectional modeling for robust deepfake video detection
摘要
The growing sophistication of deepfake videos threatens media authenticity, requiring detectors that are accurate and robust to real-world distortions. We design and compare two deep learning architectures for video-based detection. The baseline fuses ResNeXt50 with a unidirectional LSTM, while the proposed model combines EfficientNet-B0 with a Bidirectional LSTM and temporal attention to capture bidirectional dependencies and emphasize informative frames. Both are trained and evaluated on Celeb-DF v2 under identical settings for fair comparison. Results show the proposed model outperforms the baseline, reaching 95.3% accuracy and a ROC-AUC of 0.981. These findings highlight the value of efficient convolutional encoders with temporal attention for interpretable and competitive deepfake detection, with applications in media forensics and verification.