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title: DeepGuard — Explainable Forensic AI & Deepfake Detection
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short_description: Forensic AI and deepfake detection ensemble.
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# 🛡️ DeepGuard — Visual Forensics & Deepfake Detection

DeepGuard is an explainable forensic system for authenticating digital media, detecting synthetic AI images (FLUX, Midjourney, SDXL, DALL-E 3), and spotting facial deepfakes.

## 🔬 Key Features
- **4-Stage Forensic Pipeline**: Ensemble Classification, Grad-CAM++ Explainability, EXIF Metadata Provenance, and Constrained VLM Narrative.
- **Ensemble Weight Calibration**: Choose between Auto-Dynamic, Modern AI & Art, Photographic Sensor, or Custom Sliders.
- **Explainability**: Decision-tied Grad-CAM++ heatmaps highlighting spatial anomalies and ELA JPEG compression inconsistencies.
- **Interactive Forensic Investigator**: Multi-turn contextual chat powered by vision-language models.
- **ZeroGPU Accelerated**: Dynamic GPU scheduling on Hugging Face Spaces.