By: C S Nakul Kalyan, CCRI, Asia University, Taiwan

Abstract

Due to the rapid growth of Deepfake Technologies, real-time face swapping has become increasingly common, and it can be easily done by anyone, posing a serious threat to identity verification, digital trust, and online communication. The current detection models cannot cope with high-fidelity manipulations, specifically in live streaming and video conferences, so they often fail against them. Here we will see about three approaches to improve real-time deepfake detection models, which they are anti-spoofing and liveness detection, the second frame- work is a graph neural network (GNN)-based framework, and the third approach is an adversarial learning strategy using Deep Conditional GANs (DCGANs). These 3 methodologies give a strong multi-layered defence system, which is de- signed for low latency, real-time deployment in web-based applications by combining these three techniques. These techniques will produce a greater reliability and security in live streaming scenarios.

Keywords

Face Swapping, Liveness detection, Deepfake detection, Graph neural networks (GNNs), Deep Conditional GANs (DCGANs).

Introduction

Due to the rapid advancement in deepfake technology, the manipulations such as real-time expression change and live face swapping, etc, have increased. These techniques can be applied in entertainment, education, and virtual collaboration, but at the same time, these advancements pose a serious threat, such as spreading misinformation, identity fraud, etc. The ability to generate a realistic fake video stream is a bigger threat to online communication and digital platforms, mainly in live streaming and video conferences [1]. The Methods, such as Traditional anti-spoofing and liveness detection, use hand-crafted features and deep learning representations of human behaviors, such as blinking and lip-sync, to differentiate between real and fake faces [2]. To overcome the struggle against the high-quality manipulations, techniques such as graph neural networks (GNNs) has been used, where the facial recognitions are represented as nodes and their spatial-temporal correlations have been trained to find the small inconsistencies in the manipulated videos [5]. In this article we will go through the methodology to detect live deepfakes by including the techniques such as liveness-based anti-spoofing, GNN-driven analysis, and adversarial ensemble learning. This multi-layered framework protects the video conferencing apps and live web-based conference platforms from the emerging deepfake threats [4].

Proposed Methodology

This method proposes an integrated methodology for detecting live-streaming deepfakes in real-time environments. By drawing on the above-mentioned approaches, this framework builds a strong system against face forgery, and the methods are as follows, and the architecture Pipeline is been shown in Figure 1.

Pre-processing and Face Detection

This first step will be used to capture the live video streams, which have been done on the web-based platforms, where each stream is processed as follows:

Frame Extraction

Here the live video will be divided into sequential frames, in which the video is decomposed into sequential Frames for the process of alignment [3].

Face Alignment

In this process, the facial regions of interest (ROI), such as the movements of eyes, mouth, etc., have been extracted using landmark detection algorithms such as openFace2.0.

Normalization

Here the extracted frames are resized and normalized to a scale for further detection analysis.

Feature Extraction and Detection

This Feature extraction contains a multi-perspective approach with the three above-mentioned methods working as follows:

Handcrafted and Deep Features

Here, the base liveliness indicators, such as the eye blinks, lip movement, and skin texture analysis, deep CNN-based embeddings, and textural cues have been extracted [2].

Graph-Structured Features

Here, the eyes, nose, mouth, and the rest of the features of the face are divided into separate areas, such as they are represented as nodes in a feature graph. This will allow us to find the micro movements and inter-regional correlations in the face [5].

Adversarial Feature Learning

Here the collected samples are made to mimic the real deepfake forgeries using a Deep Conditional GAN (DCGANs). These samples are used to expose the discriminators that contain artifacts such as anomalies, inconsistent lip-syncing, and unnatural patterns [4].

Multi-Modal Detection Framework

The proposed detection framework contains 3 modules, such as:

Liveness Detection Module

It recognizes the natural signs of the human body, such as eye blinks, head nods, lip-sync, etc, and filters out the static attacks such as pictures, replays, and masks it uses a hybrid CNN and statistical classifiers to filter them [2].

Graph Neural Network Module

This module constructs Feature Relation Graphs (FRG) for each video Sequence shown in Figure 2 below,

Figure 2: GNN Feature Representation

and analyzes Spatial-temporal consistency between each frame by using Gat- edGCNs or Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs). This module is effective at spotting minute irregularities, which are tough for the GAN-based deepfakes to reproduce [5].

Adversarial Ensemble Discriminator Module

This module implements the Compact Ensemble Discriminators (CED) by using the DenseNet and ResNet backbones. It is trained with the conditional GAN to find the minute discrepancies from the generated content, and it ensures a reliable real-time classification even for the deepfakes with contain low artifacts and good quality [4].

Classification and Detection Fusion

Here we will see the outputs which is produced by the three modules, where they have combined through a decision-level fusion strategy such as:

Score-Level Integration Here, a probability score for authenticity purposes has been contributed by each module.

Weighted Fusion: The generated scores are combined with the adaptive weights, which are optimized during training.

Final Decision: The final decision is given by a binary classification (real vs. deepfake), which is produced for each video frame or segment, and the performance comparison with the methods have been shown in Table 1 below.

Table 1: Performance Comparisons with these methods

Method	Accuracy	Precision	Recall	F1-Score	Processing time (ms)
Traditional Anti-spoofing	78.5	76.2	80.1	78.1	45
GNN – only detection	82.3	84.1	79.8	81.9	38
GAN-based Detection	85.7	83.9	87.2	85.5	52
Liveness+GNN	89.2	88.5	90.1	89.3	42
Proposed Multi-modal	93.8	92.4	95.1	93.7	48

Real-Time Deployment:

This Architecture can be integrated with live online streaming and conferencing systems, where it is optimized for:

Low-Latency Processing:

The low-latency processing will be done by using lightweight CNN backbones such as EfficientNet-B0 to extract the features efficiently.

Edge Device Compatibility: It uses the real-time conferencing systems and IoT-enabled cameras with extra processing power to be compatible with edge devices [5].

Scalability: Here it states that the modular architecture has the capacity to adapt to new datasets, and it evolves to the new deepfake generation techniques, and will be able to detect them.

Conclusion

Maintaining the security and trust in live streaming and video conferences is becoming more difficult due to the increasing advancements in deepfake technology. To detect the deepfakes, a Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based model gives an advantage of finding spatial-temporal relations across the entire facial regions. The other method, which is anti-spoofing and liveliness detection gives a strong defence by capturing the natural behaviour indicators from the samples. Other than these, the adversarial approaches such as Deep Conditional GANs with compact Ensemble Discriminations (CED-DCGA) will improve the robustness of the model by exposing the small and tiny discrepancies which is been found in the high-fidelity deepfakes. The proposed frameworks contain a multi-layered security system that is capable of providing real-time, low-latency detection by combining different detection strategies. This proposed methodology offers a framework to help future developments in the synthetic media and also defend against the existing deepfake-generating techniques. By implementing this, it helps to protect the trust and the information in online digital media interactions.

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Kalyan C S N (2025) Live Streaming Deepfakes: Real-Time Face Swapping on the Web, Insights2Techinfo, pp.1

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