IMFD: End-to-end Multi-Face Forgery Detection through Instruction-based Large Vision-Language Models

Dasom Choi, Sangjun Moon, Hyeongchan Im, Jaeeon Park, Jingun Kwon, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe, Manabu Okumura


Abstract
The rapid increase of deepfakes has raised significant concerns due to their spread on social media. Traditional multi-face forgery detectors crop and verify each face independently, ignoring background context and inter-face relationships, which often yields suboptimal performance. To overcome these limitations, we leverage instruction-based Large Vision–Language Models (LVLMs), which can interpret entire images and follow complex textual instructions. We propose a simple yet effective single-stage multi-face forgery detector, called IMFD (Instruction-based Multi-face Forgery Detector), which is trained end-to-end to jointly localize faces and predict per-face forgery labels. Rather than treating face box prediction only as a joint objective, IMFD explicitly integrates predicted face bounding boxes into the instruction as visual cues that enhance instruction grounding and forgery detection. To support the training and evaluation of IMFD, we convert existing multi-face forgery datasets into an instruction-based format. Experimental results and analyses show that IMFD improves multi-face forgery detection by integrating face bounding boxes into the instruction, and consistently outperforms various state-of-the-art methods.
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2026.findings-aacl.178
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2026
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November
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2026
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Hengqin, China
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Yue Zhang, Ruifeng Xu, Ayu Purwarianti, Tong Rong, Jun Suzuki
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Dasom Choi, Sangjun Moon, Hyeongchan Im, Jaeeon Park, Jingun Kwon, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe, and Manabu Okumura. 2026. IMFD: End-to-end Multi-Face Forgery Detection through Instruction-based Large Vision-Language Models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2026, pages 3539–3546, Hengqin, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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