Leveraging Attention to Achieve Generalization for Image Forgery Detection

Recently, image forgery has become an alarming trend with the growth of available easy-to-use editing and generation tools. Modern DeepFake methods have achieved extraordinary progress in realistic face manipulation, thus raising concerns among the public about the misuse of such technologies. Unfortunately, with the obnoxiously wide range of possible manipulation and artifact-covering methods, most existing state-of-the-art detection methods lack the generalization capability to handle the output variations. To address this issue, a noticeable shift towards using attention mechanisms has emerged using balanced portions of the latest challenging datasets to detect intra-and inter-spatial relations. Our paper provides a comprehensive analysis of modern deep learning-based methods, showing the benefits of the shift. In addition, we make propositions for future research directions and dataset-building methodology. © 2023 IEEE.