arXiv · 2610.18485
Physics-Aware Deepfake Detection via Distance-Speech Consistency
Abstract
Recent progress in generative models has made talking-head deepfakes highly realistic and easy to create, jeopardizing public trust. However, most audio-visual deepfake detectors rely on lip-speech synchronization and are designed for static, frontal videos, limiting their reliability in dynamic, in-the-wild recordings where the speaker moves and lip cues are degraded or missing. As an alternative, we propose a physics-aware detector for dynamic speaking videos that leverages an acoustic constraint: in real recordings, speech energy varies predictably with speaker-to-camera distance, whereas deepfake generation can break this coupling. Our method combines distance estimates from video with distance-dependent acoustic measures from speech to detect deepfakes. Experiments on in-the-wild benchmarks show that the proposed physical cue is effective in dynamic scenarios, and that it complements lip-sync-based detectors, with a simple ensemble achieving consistent gains across datasets. Codes are available at https://byulharang.github.io/PADD/.
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Kyeongrae Kim, Kim Sung-Bin, Oh Hyun-Bin, Tae-Hyun Oh. 2026-10-13. Physics-Aware Deepfake Detection via Distance-Speech Consistency. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2026-1541
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