aspg-3-3473-1791419529 20261008003209 American Scientific Publishing Group admin@americaspg.com American Scientific Publishing Group Fusion: Practice and Applications FPA 2770-0070 2692-4048 2025 18 1 Sameer Nooh Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia Deepfake is a technology employed in making definite videos, which are operated utilizing an artificial intelligence (AI) model named deep learning (DL). Deepfake videos were normally videos that cover activities grabbed by definite people but with another individual's face. Substitute of people appearances in videos utilizing the DL model. The technology of Deepfake permits humans to operate videos and images utilizing DL. The outcomes from deepfakes are challenging to differentiate utilizing normal vision. It is a combination of the words DL and fake, and it mostly denotes material shaped by deep neural networks (DNNs), which is a subclass of machine learning (ML). Deepfake denotes numerous modifications of face models, and integrates innovative technologies, with computer vision and DL. The detection of a deepfake model can be assumed as a dual classification procedure that can be categorized as the original or deepfake class. It works by removing features from the videos or images that is employed to distinguish between original and deepfake content. Therefore, this study proposes Leveraging Pufferfish Optimization and Deep Belief Network for an Enhanced Deepfake Video Detection (LPODBN-EDVD) technique. The LPODBN-EDVD technique intends to detect fake videos utilizing the DL model. In the presented LPODBN-EDVD technique, the data preprocessing stages include splitting the video into frames, face detection, and face cropping. For the process of feature extraction, the EfficientNet model is exploited. Besides, the deep belief network (DBN) classifier can be executed for deepfake video detection. Finally, the pufferfish optimization algorithm (POA) is employed for the optimal hyperparameter selection of the DBN classifier. A wide range of simulations was involved in exhibiting the promising results of the LPODBN-EDVD method. The experimental analysis pointed out the enhanced performance of the LPODBN-EDVD technique compared to recent approaches 2025 288 303 3473 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.54216/FPA.180120 https://www.americaspg.com/journal/3/article/3473 https://www.americaspg.com/storage/11736516518.pdf