Deeptrace: South Asia Deepfake Detection Challenge
Deeptrace: South Asia Deepfake Detection Challenge
The South Asia Deepfake Detection Challenge is a multi-country research initiative to build culturally grounded datasets, benchmarks, and detection tools for AI-generated media in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Our goal is to advance deepfake detection that truly reflects the region’s languages, aesthetics, and socio-political realities.
Objectives of the South Asia Deepfake Detection Challenge
Collect image, video, audio, and text-based deepfakes that reflect South Asian languages, cultural cues, political contexts, and real-world manipulation styles.
Design region-aware benchmark tests that capture local challenges—such as low-quality media, mobile-edited fakes, linguistic code-mixing, and culturally specific manipulations.
Develop machine-learning models that can detect deepfakes across diverse South Asian languages, faces, and contexts, and evaluate them against existing global tools.
Create accessible interfaces—browser tools, mobile prototypes, and fact-checking utilities—that help people identify, contextualize, and report AI-generated media.
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