Vision Transformer-Based Video Hashing Retrieval for Tracing the Source of Fake Videos

With the increasing negative impact of fake videos on individuals and society, it is crucial to detect different types of forgeries. Existing forgery detection methods often output a probability value, which lacks interpretability and reliability. In this paper, we propose a source-tracing-based solution to find the original real video of a fake video, which can provide more reliable results in practical situations. However, directly applying retrieval methods to traceability tasks is infeasible since traceability tasks require finding the unique source video from a large number of real videos, while retrieval methods are typically used to find similar videos. In addition, training an effective hashing center to distinguish similar real videos is challenging. To address the above issues, we introduce a novel loss function, hash triplet loss, to capture fine-grained features with subtle differences. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on multiple datasets of object removal (video inpainting), object addition (video splicing), and object swapping (face swapping), demonstrating excellent robustness and cross-dataset performance. The effectiveness of the hash triplet loss for nondifferentiable optimization problems is validated through experiments in similar video scenes.