arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-07
VendorBench-100: A Unified Cross-Paradigm Benchmark for Deepfake Image Detection
Sharayu N. Deshmukh, Md Rashidunnabi, Nelton Tiago Gemo, Kurundkar G. D., Mahamune M. R., Nilesh K. Deshmukh
Deepfake image detection is currently served by three fundamentally different paradigms: commercial APIs, zero-shot vision-language models (LLMs), and open-source detectors. Despite their widespread use, these paradigms are rarely evaluated under a common protocol, making direct…