LAA-X: Unified Localized Artifact Attention for Quality-Agnostic and Generalizable Face Forgery Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04086v1
• Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:08:48 GMT
• Title: LAA-X: Unified Localized Artifact Attention for Quality-Agnostic and Generalizable Face Forgery Detection
• Abstract summary: Localized Artifact Attention X (LAA-X) is a novel deepfake detection framework.<n>It is robust to high-quality forgeries and capable of generalizing to unseen manipulations.
• Score: 25.40215279086399
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we propose Localized Artifact Attention X (LAA-X), a novel deepfake detection framework that is both robust to high-quality forgeries and capable of generalizing to unseen manipulations. Existing approaches typically rely on binary classifiers coupled with implicit attention mechanisms, which often fail to generalize beyond known manipulations. In contrast, LAA-X introduces an explicit attention strategy based on a multi-task learning framework combined with blending-based data synthesis. Auxiliary tasks are designed to guide the model toward localized, artifact-prone (i.e., vulnerable) regions. The proposed framework is compatible with both CNN and transformer backbones, resulting in two different versions, namely, LAA-Net and LAA-Former, respectively. Despite being trained only on real and pseudo-fake samples, LAA-X competes with state-of-the-art methods across multiple benchmarks. Code and pre-trained weights for LAA-Net\footnote{https://github.com/10Ring/LAA-Net} and LAA-Former\footnote{https://github.com/10Ring/LAA-Former} are publicly available.

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