ActivityForensics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Localizing Manipulated Activity in Videos

TL;DR

ActivityForensics introduces a large-scale benchmark dataset and evaluation protocols for localizing manipulated activity segments in videos, addressing a gap in existing forgery detection research.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive benchmark for activity-level video forgery localization, including a new dataset, evaluation protocols, and baseline methods.

Findings

The dataset contains over 6,000 forged video segments with high visual consistency.

The proposed TADiff baseline effectively exposes artifact cues in manipulated videos.

Benchmarking various state-of-the-art methods reveals strengths and limitations in activity forgery localization.

Abstract

Temporal forgery localization aims to temporally identify manipulated segments in videos. Most existing benchmarks focus on appearance-level forgeries, such as face swapping and object removal. However, recent advances in video generation have driven the emergence of activity-level forgeries that modify human actions to distort event semantics, resulting in highly deceptive forgeries that critically undermine media authenticity and public trust. To overcome this issue, we introduce ActivityForensics, the first large-scale benchmark for localizing manipulated activity in videos. It contains over 6K forged video segments that are seamlessly blended into the video context, rendering high visual consistency that makes them almost indistinguishable from authentic content to the human eye. We further propose Temporal Artifact Diffuser (TADiff), a simple yet effective baseline that exposes artifact cues through a diffusion-based feature regularizer. Based on ActivityForensics, we introduce comprehensive evaluation protocols covering intra-domain, cross-domain, and open-world settings, and benchmark a wide range of state-of-the-art forgery localizers to facilitate future research. The dataset and code are available at https://activityforensics.github.io.