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Combating Deepfake Videos Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts
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With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning techniques, fake digital contents have proliferated in recent years. Fake footage, images, audios, and videos (known as deepfakes) can be a scary and dangerous phenomenon and can have the potential of altering the truth and eroding trust by giving false reality. Proof of authenticity (PoA) of digital media is critical to help eradicate the epidemic of forged content. Current solutions lack the ability to provide history tracking and provenance of digital media. In this paper, we provide a solution and a general framework using Ethereum smart contracts to trace and track the provenance and history of digital content to its original source even if the digital content is copied multiple times. The smart contract utilizes the hashes of the interplanetary file system (IPFS) used to store digital content and its metadata. Our solution focuses on video content, but the solution framework provided in this paper is generic enough and can be applied to any other form of digital content. Our solution relies on the principle that if the content can be credibly traced to a trusted or reputable source, the content can then be real and authentic. The full code of the smart contract has been made publicly available at Github.
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“However, other researchers (Parikh and Atrey 2018; Fraga-Lamas and Fernández-Caramés 2020; Hasan and Salah 2019; Masciari et al. 2020; Bakdash et al. 2018; Elhadad et al. 2019; Yang et al. 2019b) focus on the content to categorize types of fake news through distinguishing the different formats and content types of data in the news (e.g., text and/or multimedia).”
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“Additionally, a security analysis of their BC-based solution shows how it addresses important security objectives like integrity, accountability, authorization, availability, and non-repudiation.”
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“A scheme using BC-based Ethereum technology, the second largest BC network, specifically Ethereum smart contracts, to track the provenance and history of digital content to its original source, even if it is copied multiple times, is presented in Hasan and Salah (2019).”
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“Leveraging technologies such as blockchain (Hasan and Salah 2019), or privacy-enhancing digital fi ngerprints can transparently trace content origins (Barrington et al. 2023).”
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“Other meth- ods such as lip-syncing approaches [67–69] and im- age quality metrics with support vector machine (SVM) [70] produce very high error rate when applied to detect deepfake videos from this newly produced dataset.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hasan, H. R., & Salah, K.
- Affiliations
- Khalifa University of Science and Technology (AE)
- Venue
- IEEE Access
- Published
- 2019
- Volume
- 7
- Pages
- 41596-41606
- ISSN
- 2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2920877282
- Cited by
- 339
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 55 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 21
- FWCI
- 54.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- IEEE Access (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
- Keywords
- deepfakes, video authenticity, blockchain, smart contracts, Ethereum, IPFS, content provenance
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