Efficient deepfake detection: a hybrid lightweight framework for cross-domain generalization
摘要
The rise of complex deep learning architectures has enabled the creation of hyper-realistic media, posing significant risks to public trust. Current state-of-the-art deepfake detectors often require heavy computational resources and are limited to single-domain dataset, which limit their deployment on standard workstations and creating a mixed domain generalization gap. To overcome these challenges, we propose a Multi Stage Hybrid Lightweight Framework (MSHLF) that uses an EfficientNetB0 backbone for spatial feature extraction and a lightweight LSTM for temporal modeling. Trained on a balanced mixed-domain dataset, our model achieves accuracy of 92.48% and AUROC of 98.0%, utilizing only 5.44M parameters. This resource-aware mixed-domain model demonstrates competitive generalization performance across mixed domains settings, making it suitable for deployment on standard workstations.