µFlow: Leveraging Average Images for Improving Generalisation of Deepfake Faces Detectors

Abstract

In this work, we introduce µFlow, a one-class deepfake detector trained only on real images without relying on pseudo-deepfakes or synthetic artifacts. Our approach builds on the observation that averaging multiple images amplifies consistent generative traces, producing highly discriminative feature representations. We leverage this property by modelling the distribution of features extracted from averaged images and training a normalizing flow to align the feature space of individual images with this distribution. This alignment yields a likelihood-based criterion that separates real and fake samples while promoting strong generalisation.

Publication
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)