Wavelet‐Based Texture Mining and Enhancement for Face Forgery Detection
Xin Li, Hui Zhao, Bingxin Xu, Hongzhe Liu · IET Biometrics · 2025
Due to the abuse of deep forgery technology, the research on forgery detection methods has become increasingly urgent. The corresponding relationship between the frequency spectrum information and the spatial clues, which is often neglected by current methods, could be conducive to a more accurate and generalized forgery detection. Motivated by this inspiration, we propose a wavelet‐based texture mining and enhancement framework for face forgery detection. First, we introduce a frequency‐guided texture enhancement (FGTE) module that mining the high‐frequency information to improve the network’s extraction of effective texture features. Next, we propose a global–local feature refinement (GLFR) module to enhance the model’s leverage of both global semantic features and local texture features. Moreover, the interactive fusion module (IFM) is designed to fully incorporate the enhanced texture clues with spatial features. The proposed method has been extensively evaluated on five public datasets, such as FaceForensics++ (FF++), deepfake (DF) detection (DFD) challenge (DFDC), Celeb‐DFv2, DFDC preview (DFDC‐P), and DFD, for face forgery detection, yielding promising performance within and cross dataset experiments.