Explainable-by-Design Audio Deepfake Detection via Wiener-Hopf Linear Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12584v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:51:55 GMT
• Title: Explainable-by-Design Audio Deepfake Detection via Wiener-Hopf Linear Prediction
• Abstract summary: We propose an explainable-by-design audio deepfake detection framework based on Wiener-Hopf linear prediction.<n>This design enables a direct and transparent connection between classification outcomes and the acoustic properties of the signal.<n>Experiments show that fine-tuning effectively recovers detection performance under common post-processing degradations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The rapid advancement of synthetic speech generation methods has made audio deepfake detection a critical challenge in multimedia forensics. While recent approaches achieve high detection accuracy, they typically rely on black-box architectures that offer limited interpretability and high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose an explainable-by-design audio deepfake detection framework based on Wiener-Hopf linear prediction, processed by a lightweight 2D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). This design enables a direct and transparent connection between classification outcomes and the acoustic properties of the signal. Experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate competitive detection performance while maintaining significantly lower computational complexity compared to state-of-the-art solutions. The interpretability analysis using Grad-CAM reveals that the classifier focuses on low-order predictor coefficients and on silence and transitional regions, suggesting that the Wiener-Hopf predictor captures reverberation characteristics and subtle statistical inconsistencies in synthetic speech. Finally, robustness experiments show that fine-tuning effectively recovers detection performance under common post-processing degradations, including additive noise, MP3 compression, and telephone filtering.

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