WAFF: A Synergetic Face Forgery Video Detection Method via Weakly Supervised EfficientNet

Deepfake detection has become an essential task for ensuring the authenticity and security of digital media. Although recent approaches have achieved notable progress, most existing detectors still exhibit limited generalization to unseen forgery techniques and remain vulnerable to common perturbations such as compression, noise, and adversarial attacks. To overcome these issues, we propose Weakly Supervised EfficientNet Augmented Face Forgery Detector (WAFF), a novel framework that integrates fine-grained per-frame analysis with adaptive video-level fusion. Specifically, WAFF integrates WSEffiNet, an EfficientNet-B3-based backbone enhanced with a Weakly Supervised Data Augmentation Network (WS-DAN). This design generates attention maps to emphasize subtle facial forgery artifacts while encouraging complementary local–global feature learning. At the video level, WAFF incorporates a multi-strategy fusion scheme that combines fake-frame counting, confidence averaging, and attention-guided voting to strike a balance between sensitivity and stability. Extensive experiments on FaceForensics++, Celeb-DF v2, DFD, DFDC, and FFIW-10K demonstrate that WAFF can achieve state-of-the-art performance under both high- and low-quality compression, while also enhancing cross-dataset generalization.