LOGER: Local--Global Ensemble for Robust Deepfake Detection in the Wild

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03558v1
• Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:56:11 GMT
• Title: LOGER: Local--Global Ensemble for Robust Deepfake Detection in the Wild
• Abstract summary: LOGER is a LOcal--Global Ensemble framework for Robust deepfake detection.<n> LOGER achieves 2nd place in the NTIRE 2026 Robust Deepfake Detection Challenge.
• Score: 17.30735058274559
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Robust deepfake detection in the wild remains challenging due to the ever-growing variety of manipulation techniques and uncontrolled real-world degradations. Forensic cues for deepfake detection reside at two complementary levels: global-level anomalies in semantics and statistics that require holistic image understanding, and local-level forgery traces concentrated in manipulated regions that are easily diluted by global averaging. Since no single backbone or input scale can effectively cover both levels, we propose LOGER, a LOcal--Global Ensemble framework for Robust deepfake detection. The global branch employs heterogeneous vision foundation model backbones at multiple resolutions to capture holistic anomalies with diverse visual priors. The local branch performs patch-level modeling with a Multiple Instance Learning top-$k$ aggregation strategy that selectively pools only the most suspicious regions, mitigating evidence dilution caused by the dominance of normal patches; dual-level supervision at both the aggregated image level and individual patch level keeps local responses discriminative. Because the two branches differ in both granularity and backbone, their errors are largely decorrelated, a property that logit-space fusion exploits for more robust prediction. LOGER achieves 2nd place in the NTIRE 2026 Robust Deepfake Detection Challenge, and further evaluation on multiple public benchmarks confirms its strong robustness and generalization across diverse manipulation methods and real-world degradation conditions.

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