Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

Deep fake technology paves the way for a new generation of super realistic artificial content. While this opens the door to extraordinary new applications, the malicious use of deepfakes allows for far more realistic disinformation attacks than ever before. In this paper, we start from the intuition that generating fake content introduces possible inconsistencies in the depth of the generated images. This extra information provides valuable spatial and semantic cues that can reveal inconsistencies facial generative methods introduce. To test this idea, we evaluate different strategies for integrating depth information into an RGB detector and we propose an attention mechanism that makes it possible to integrate information from depth effectively. In addition to being more accurate than an RGB model, our Masked Depthfake Network method is +3.2% more robust against common adversarial attacks on average than a typical RGB detector. Furthermore, we show how this technique allows the model to learn more discriminative features than RGB alone.