TY - JOUR AU - M Uday Kumar AU - A Rishikesh AU - G Ravi Kumar AU - K Sreeja PY - 2026 DA - 2026/03/20 TI - Deepfake Detection Using CNNs JO - Global Journal of Engineering Innovations and Interdisciplinary Research VL - 6 IS - 3 AB - The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and deep learning has led to the proliferation of deepfakes—synthetic media in which a person’s likeness is convincingly replaced or manipulated using generative models such as GANs. While these forgeries pose severe ethical, social, and security threats, their increasing realism makes manual or traditional detection nearly impossible. This project proposes a Deepfake Detection System using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to automatically distinguish between authentic and manipulated facial videos or images. The system leverages spatial and temporal inconsistencies introduced during the synthesis process, learning deep feature representations that highlight subtle artifacts invisible to the human eye. The CNN model is trained on benchmark datasets of real and fake media, optimizing for high classification accuracy and robustness across varying compression levels and generation techniques. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CNN-based framework achieves effective deepfake identification, offering a scalable and efficient solution to combat digital misinformation and safeguard media integrity. SN - 3066-1226 UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.33425/3066-1226.1239 DO - 10.33425/3066-1226.1239