AdaForensics: Learning A Characteristic-aware Adaptive Deepfake Detector

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02160v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:41:35 GMT
• Title: AdaForensics: Learning A Characteristic-aware Adaptive Deepfake Detector
• Abstract summary: We propose a characteristic-aware adaptive network named AdaForensics for deepfake detection.<n>Our AdaForensics simultaneously learns characteristic-agnostic and characteristic-specific embeddings, where the detector dynamically adapts to varying faces.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we propose a characteristic-aware adaptive network named AdaForensics for deepfake detection. Most existing methods learn a fixed network to detect deepfakes based on carefully-designed network architectures. However, these methods employ the same deepfake detector for all the images despite of various facial characteristic, which fail to provide customized forgery detection for different individuals. To address this, our AdaForensics simultaneously learns characteristic-agnostic and characteristic-specific embeddings, where the detector dynamically adapts to varying faces with our designed hypernetwork on the fly. More specifically, our AdaForensics not only explores the shareable abstractions from various deepfake images, but also adapts the detector to the given characteristic at test time. To achieve this, we propose a two-branch HyperNetwork to learn an adaptive deepfake detector, which automatically adjusts the parameters based on characteristic of the input. Extensive experiments on widely-used datasets including FaceForensics, Celeb-DF and DFDC demonstrate our AdaForensics outperforms the state-of-the-art works.

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