DeepSFU: Scalable Deepfake Detection for Video Conferencing

Deepfakes have emerged as a significant threat to online communications, enabling nearly indistinguishable impersonation of executives, public figures, and trusted contacts during video calls. While state-of-the-art deepfake detection models can achieve high accuracy offline, deploying them in real-time video conferencing systems remains challenging: the added computation quickly violates interactive latency budgets and greatly limits scalability. Our empirical analysis reveals that video decoding and frame movement dominate the detection pipeline, together accounting for approximately 86.6% of per-frame processing time.