The rapid rise in the use of artificially generated faces has significantly increased the risk of identity theft in biometric authentication systems. Modern facial recognition technologies are now vulnerable to sophisticated attacks using printed images, replayed videos, and highly realistic 3D masks. This creates an urgent need for advanced, reliable, and mobile-compatible fake face detection systems. Research indicates that while deep learning models have demonstrated strong performance in detecting artificially generated faces, deploying these models on consumer mobile devices remains challenging due to limitations in computing power, memory, privacy, and processing speed. This paper highlights several key challenges: (1) optimizing deep learning models to operate efficiently on mobile devices, (2) ensuring real-time inference without compromising accuracy, (3) maintaining user privacy when processing sensitive facial data, and (4) addressing the variability in mobile phone cameras, input resolution, and platform limitations across Android and iOS. Furthermore, the increasing sophistication of identity spoofing attacks—such as 3D masks and AI-generated faces—demands more sophisticated, robust, and multimodal detection technologies. The research findings provide a clear roadmap toward practical solutions. By evaluating the latest deep learning architectures, datasets, and anti-spoofing metrics, the study proposes a comprehensive React Native deployment path using TensorFlow Lite and TensorFlow.js to ensure cross-platform compatibility. The proposed system offers a unified classification of identity spoofing attacks and defense mechanisms, along with a structured evaluation framework that compares on-device processing with server-side detection. The results demonstrate that optimized models can achieve high accuracy, low false accept/rejection rates, and sub-second processing speeds on mobile devices. Ultimately, the study provides practical design guidelines for building robust, privacy-preserving, efficient, and real-world consumer-grade fake face detection systems.
