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Paper · 2604.17477 · 2026

Unveiling Deepfakes: A Frequency-Aware Triple Branch Network for Deepfake Detection

Yutong Xie, Kui Ren, Zhenguang Liu, Sifan Wu, Yingying Jiao, Zhaoyan Ming, Qihao Shen, Jiaxing Xuan

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Abstract

Advanced deepfake technologies are blurring the lines between real and fake, presenting both revolutionary opportunities and alarming threats. While it unlocks novel applications in fields like entertainment and education, its malicious use has sparked urgent ethical and societal concerns ranging from identity theft to the dissemination of misinformation. To tackle these challenges, feature analysis using frequency features has emerged as a promising direction for deepfake detection. However, one aspect that has been overlooked so far is that existing methods tend to concentrate on one or a few specific frequency domains, which risks overfitting to particular artifacts and significantly undermines their robustness when facing diverse forgery patterns. Another underexplored aspect we observe is that different features often attend to the same forged region, resulting in redundant feature representations and limiting the diversity of the extracted clues. This may undermine the ability of a model to capture complementary information across different facets, thereby compromising its generalization capability to diverse manipulations. In this paper, we seek to tackle these challenges from two aspects: (1) we propose a triple-branch network that jointly captures spatial and frequency features by learning from both original image and image reconstructed by different frequency channels, and (2) we mathematically derive feature decoupling and fusion losses grounded in the mutual information theory, which enhances the model to focus on task-relevant features across the original image and the image reconstructed by different frequency channels. Extensive experiments on six large-scale benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance. Our code is released at https://github.com/injooker/Unveiling Deepfake.

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