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GEM-TFL: Bridging Weak and Full Supervision for Forgery Localization through EM-Guided Decomposition and Temporal Refinement
Temporal Forgery Localization (TFL) aims to precisely identify manipulated segments within videos or audio streams, providing interpretable evidence for multimedia forensics and security. While most existing TFL methods rely on dense frame-level labels in a fully supervised manner, Weakly Supervised TFL (WS-TFL) reduces labeling cost by learning only from binary video-level labels. However, current WS-TFL approaches suffer from mis-matched training and inference objectives, limited supervision from binary labels, gradient blockage caused by non-differentiable top-k aggregation, and the absence of explicit modeling of inter-proposal relationships. To address these issues, GEM-TFL proposes a two-phase classification-regression framework that effectively bridges the supervision gap between training and inference.
Key Performance Indicators
GEM-TFL introduces significant advancements in weakly supervised temporal forgery localization, delivering enhanced accuracy and robustness critical for enterprise-level multimedia forensics.
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Absolute mAP Gain on AV-Deepfake1M
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Absolute mAP Gain on LAV-DF
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Optimal Latent Attributes for Semantic Learning
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mAP at IoU 0.7 for Robust Localization
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Architectural Innovation
Semantic Enrichment
Performance Benchmarking
Robustness & Coherence
Temporal Dynamics
Enterprise Process Flow
Weakly Supervised Input
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Classification Phase (LAD, TCR, GPR)
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Pseudo-Proposal Generation
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Localization Phase (Regression)
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Precise Forgery Localization Output
GEM-TFL introduces a novel two-phase framework that effectively bridges the supervision gap between weakly and fully supervised settings. This design ensures consistent objectives for both training and inference, crucial for stable and accurate temporal forgery localization.
+18.7%
mAP Gain from LAD Module
EM-Guided Latent Attribute Decomposition
The Latent Attribute Decomposition (LAD) module re-frames binary labels into multi-dimensional latent attributes via an Expectation-Maximization (EM) process. This significantly enriches weak supervision by modeling diverse forgery semantics, boosting overall localization performance.
Superior Performance on TFL Benchmarks
GEM-TFL significantly narrows the performance gap with fully supervised methods on both LAV-DF and AV-Deepfake1M datasets. The table below highlights the comparative improvements over existing weakly supervised approaches.
| Method | Avg. mAP (LAV-DF) | Avg. mAP (AV-Deepfake1M) | Key Contribution |
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| Prior WS-TFL (e.g., WMMT) | 73.3% | 34.3% |
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| GEM-TFL (Ours) | 77.6% | 42.7% |
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| Performance Gain | +4.3% | +8.4% |
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Graph-based Proposal Refinement for Stable Boundaries
Challenge: Prior methods suffer from fragmented and unstable localization due to local reasoning and human bias in OIC scores, leading to inaccurate boundary predictions.
Solution: The Graph-based Proposal Refinement (GPR) module constructs a proposal relation graph, integrating temporal and semantic similarities to diffuse confidence across nodes. This achieves globally consistent optimization, mitigating local inconsistencies.
Result: GPR yields more reliable and coherent temporal boundaries, significantly reducing fragmentation and improving overall localization quality. This module alone contributes to a +4.6% mAP gain, leading to robust and precise forgery detection.
+3.5%
mAP Gain from TCR Module
Training-Free Temporal Consistency Refinement
The Temporal Consistency Refinement (TCR) module realigns frame-level predictions with clip-level attribute priors through a training-free constraint refinement. This innovative approach ensures smoother temporal dynamics and addresses inconsistencies caused by non-differentiable aggregations, leading to more coherent and stable temporal responses.
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Strategic Implementation Roadmap
Our phased approach ensures a smooth and effective integration of GEM-TFL into your existing security and content moderation workflows.
Phase 1: Feature Integration & Weak Supervision Setup
Integrate pre-trained audio-visual feature extractors and configure the initial MIL-based classification branch. Establish the binary clip-level label input for weakly supervised training, laying the groundwork for advanced detection.
Phase 2: EM-Guided Latent Attribute Decomposition
Deploy the Latent Attribute Decomposition (LAD) module, using the EM algorithm to refine attribute separation and enrich semantic supervision from binary labels into multi-dimensional latent attributes. This enhances representation learning for diverse forgery patterns and improves discriminative power.
Phase 3: Temporal Consistency & Proposal Refinement
Implement the Training-Free Temporal Consistency Refinement (TCR) for smoother temporal dynamics in frame-level predictions, and integrate the Graph-based Proposal Refinement (GPR) module to model inter-proposal relationships and generate coherent pseudo-proposals, minimizing fragmentation.
Phase 4: Localization Phase Training & Deployment
Train the regression branch using the refined pseudo-proposals for precise boundary localization. Optimize the two-phase framework to bridge the supervision gap, leading to accurate and robust temporal forgery detection in real-world scenarios and seamless deployment.
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