DeepScar: Region-Traceable Deepfake Forensics via Secure Watermarking

Reviewer FhZY Con4

No comparison with other related works.

Reviewer tRk5 Con3

The adding salt process is overly simplistic.

Reviewer tRk5 Q1

Can you elaborate on its effectiveness against full-image or non-face deepfake?

Reviewer tRk5 Q3

providing a theoretical proof as to how the key ensures security

Reviewer tRk5 Q4

Can the localization shown in Figure 5 be elaborated upon regarding its accuracy?

Reviewer HN1c Con3

No deepfake detection methods compared.

Reviewer Lomu Q3

No deepfake-related watermarking methods compared.

Reviewer Lomu Q5

There needs to be more information about what happens if this model takes the vanilla image that is not manipulated by the deepfake technique and does not have a watermark as input.

Reviewer Lomu Q8

There is no explanation of the differences between the combinations of deepfake algorithms (e.g., SimSwap, FaceSwap) and datasets (e.g., FF++, Celeb-DF).

Reviewer Lomu Q9

there is no information on why the other combinations are omitted (e.g., SimSwap with DFDC).

Reviewer Lomu Q11

The meaning of Figure 1 needs to be clearer.