Robust deepfake detector against deep image watermarking

J Jian Yu (Department of Chemistry) X Xin Liu F Fengbiao Zan Y Yanhan Peng

Abstract

Deepfake technology poses a significant threat to information security,rendering deepfake detection research crucial. However, current detection methods experience a marked performance degradation in the presence of deep watermarking within images. In this paper, we propose a multi-module model, which integrates Efficient Multi-scale Attention within Xception as the detection module and introduces a feature dropout module to eliminate redundant image features. Experimental results demonstrate that when 50% and 100% of the images in the dataset contain MBRS watermarks, the accuracy (ACC) metrics of our model are comparable to those of existingbaseline models. However, when 50% and 100% of the images contain FaceSigns watermarks, the ACC metrics of our model outperform those of other baseline models by approximately 10% and 20%, respectively.

Article Details

Journal PLoS ONE
Volume / Issue Vol. 20, Issue 12
Published December 31, 2025
Pages e0338778
ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher Public Library of Science

Journal Info

PLoS ONE

Public Library of Science

ISSN: 1932-6203 Open Access Health Sciences

Authors (4)

J

Jian Yu

Department of Chemistry

X

Xin Liu

F

Fengbiao Zan

Y

Yanhan Peng