XPlainVerse
Preprint2026
Largest deepfake explainability benchmark
1M unique images · By image count in the paper’s July 2026 comparison
Research in media authenticity.
Detecting manipulated media, locating changes
and explaining the evidence.
- 7+
Years of deepfake research
Academic work since 2018
- 150+
Research publications
Across our team’s research careers
Pioneering temporal localisation
Locating manipulated video segments since 2020
Deepfake detection for video calls
FakeBuster · IUI 2021
Multiple best paper awards
At leading international conferences
Research contributions
AV-Deepfake1M++
ACM Multimedia2025
Largest audio-visual deepfake benchmark
2,051,154 clips · By clip count in the paper’s 2025 comparison
FakeBuster
IUI Companion2021
Pioneering deepfake detection for video calls
LAV-DF
DICTA / CVIU2022 / 2023
Localising the edits that change what was said
Not Made for Each Other
ACM Multimedia2020
Pioneering temporal deepfake localisation
MultiFakeVerse
ACM Multimedia2025
Subtle edits that change an image’s meaning
LayLens
ICMI Demos2025
Deepfake explanations in plain language
Publications
Showing 1–20 of 177 publications
- 2026A Survey on Deep Learning for Group-Level Emotion Recognition
Xiaohua Huang, Xiaopeng Hong, Qirong Mao, Wenming Zheng, Abhinav Dhall
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social SystemsJournal article
- 2026BrandFusion: Aligning Image Generation with Brand Styles
Parul Gupta, Varun Khurana, Yaman Kumar Singla, Balaji Krishnamurthy, Abhinav Dhall
IEEE/CVF WACVConference paper
- 2026EngageNet++: Affective Integration and Interpretable Multimodal Engagement Prediction
Monisha Singh, Ximi Hoque, Donghuo Zeng, Yanan Wang, Kazushi Ikeda, Shehroz S. Khan, Abhinav Dhall
IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingJournal article
- 2026EULALens: SEE What YOU Agree!
Abhijeet Narang, Hagar Elbatanouny, Vanishri Shekhawat, Hasan Al-Nashash, Abhinav Dhall, Usman Tariq
ACM Multimedia 2026Accepted demo/video paper (forthcoming)
- 2026Explainable Deepfake Detection Challenge
Abhijeet Narang, Kartik Kuckreja, Shreya Ghosh, Muhammad Haris Khan, Usman Tariq, Jianfei Cai, Abhinav Dhall
arXivChallenge report (preprint)
- 2026Generation and Detection of Sign Language Deepfakes: A Linguistic and Visual Analysis
Shahzeb Naeem, Muhammad Riyyan Khan, Usman Tariq, Abhinav Dhall, Carlos Ivan Colon, Hasan Al-Nashash
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social SystemsJournal article
- 2026Hierarchical Cross-Attention Transformer for Non-contact Multimodal Pain Classification using Remote Physiological Signals and Visual Features
Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta, Abhinav Dhall
IEEE FGConference paper
- 2026Interpretable Multimodal Engagement Prediction with Graph-based Mixture-of-Experts
Monisha Singh, Abhinav Dhall
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference On Multimodal InteractionConference paper
- 2026PhysHDR: When Lighting Meets Materials and Scene Geometry in HDR Reconstruction
Hrishav Bakul Barua, Kalin Stefanov, Ganesh Krishnasamy, KokSheik Wong, Abhinav Dhall
ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)Conference paper
- 2026Pixels Don't Lie (But Your Detector Might): Bootstrapping MLLM-as-a-Judge for Trustworthy Deepfake Detection and Reasoning Supervision
Kartik Kuckreja, Parul Gupta, Muhammad Haris Khan, Abhinav Dhall
IEEE/CVF CVPRConference paper
- 2026SynchroRaMa : Lip-Synchronized and Emotion-Aware Talking Face Generation via Multi-Modal Emotion Embedding
Phyo Thet Yee, Dimitrios Kollias, Sudeepta Mishra, Abhinav Dhall
IEEE/CVF WACVConference paper
- 2026Tell me Habibi, is it Real or Fake?
Kartik Kuckreja, Parul Gupta, Injy Hamed, Thamar Solorio, Muhammad Haris Khan, Abhinav Dhall
ICLRConference paper
- 2026VFace: A Training-Free Approach for Diffusion-Based Video Face Swapping
Sanoojan Baliah, Yohan Abeysinghe, Rusiru Thushara, Khan Muhammad, Abhinav Dhall, Karthik Nandakumar, Muhammad Haris Khan
IEEE/CVF WACVConference paper
- 2026XPlainVerse: A Million-Scale Benchmark for Explainable Deepfake Detection
Abhijeet Narang, Kartik Kuckreja, Shreya Ghosh, Muhammad Haris Khan, Jianfei Cai, Abhinav Dhall
arXivPreprint
- 20257th ABAW Competition: Multi-task Learning and Compound Expression Recognition
Dimitrios Kollias, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Irene Kotsia, Abhinav Dhall, Shreya Ghosh, Chunchang Shao, Guanyu Hu
ECCV Workshops (15) (2024 event)Challenge report
- 2025A Multi-Modal Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Spatial Reasoning-Based Visual Grounding in Robotics
Simindokht Jahangard, Mehrzad Mohammadi, Abhinav Dhall, Hamid Rezatofighi
arXivPreprint
- 2025A Survey of Body and Face Motion: Datasets, Performance Evaluation Metrics and Generative Techniques
Lownish Rai Sookha, Nikhil Pakhale, Mudasir Ganaie, Abhinav Dhall
arXivPreprint
- 2025AV-Deepfake1M++: A Large-Scale Audio-Visual Deepfake Benchmark with Real-World Perturbations
Zhixi Cai, Kartik Kuckreja, Shreya Ghosh, Akanksha Chuchra, Muhammad Haris Khan, Usman Tariq, Tom Gedeon, Abhinav Dhall
ACM MultimediaConference paper
- 2025ClipSwap++: Improved Identity and Attributes Aware Face Swapping
Phyo Thet Yee, Sudeepta Mishra, Abhinav Dhall
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity ScienceJournal article
- 2025Conditional Distribution Modelling for Few-Shot Image Synthesis with Diffusion Models
Parul Gupta, Munawar Hayat, Abhinav Dhall, Thanh-Toan Do
ACCV (5) (2024 event)Conference paper
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