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With the recent progress in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), it is imperative for media and visual forensics to develop detectors which can identify and attribute images to the model generating them. Existing works have shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Sharath Girish , Saksham Suri , Saketh Rambhatla , Abhinav Shrivastava

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been extremely successful in various application domains such as computer vision, medicine, and natural language processing. Moreover, transforming an object or person to a desired shape become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Huiyu Zhou , Ruili Wang , M. Emre Celebi , Jie Yang

The extraordinary ability of generative models to generate photographic images has intensified concerns about the spread of disinformation, thereby leading to the demand for detectors capable of distinguishing between AI-generated fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Mingjian Zhu , Hanting Chen , Qiangyu Yan , Xudong Huang , Guanyu Lin , Wei Li , Zhijun Tu , Hailin Hu , Jie Hu , Yunhe Wang

As the misuse of AI-generated images grows, generalizable image detection techniques are urgently needed. Recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods adopt aligned training datasets to reduce content, size, and format biases, empowering models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yiheng Li , Yang Yang , Zichang Tan , Gao Li , Zhen Lei , Wenhao Wang

Synthetic image generation has opened up new opportunities but has also created threats in regard to privacy, authenticity, and security. Detecting fake images is of paramount importance to prevent illegal activities, and previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Md Awsafur Rahman , Bishmoy Paul , Najibul Haque Sarker , Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

Recently the GAN generated face images are more and more realistic with high-quality, even hard for human eyes to detect. On the other hand, the forensics community keeps on developing methods to detect these generated fake images and try…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Xinsheng Xuan , Bo Peng , Wei Wang , Jing Dong

Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled the creation of highly realistic, fully AI-generated images without relying on real source content. While beneficial for many applications, these models also pose significant societal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Qijie Xu , Can Wang , Jiawei Chen , Siwei Lyu , Defang Chen

GAN-generated image detection now becomes the first line of defense against the malicious uses of machine-synthesized image manipulations such as deepfakes. Although some existing detectors work well in detecting clean, known GAN samples,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Chi Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Sheng Shen , Wanlei Zhou

Advances in image generation enable hyper-realistic synthetic faces but also pose risks, thus making synthetic face detection crucial. Previous research focuses on the general differences between generated images and real images, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Qingchao Jiang , Zhishuo Xu , Zhiying Zhu , Ning Chen , Haoyue Wang , Zhongjie Ba

The quality of image generation and manipulation is reaching impressive levels, making it increasingly difficult for a human to distinguish between what is real and what is fake. However, deep networks can still pick up on the subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Lucy Chai , David Bau , Ser-Nam Lim , Phillip Isola

The advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has brought about completely novel ways of transforming and manipulating pixels in digital images. GAN based techniques such as Image-to-Image translations, DeepFakes, and other automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , Arjuna Flenner , Jawadul H. Bappy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , B. S. Manjunath

An experimental study on detecting synthetic face images is presented. We collected a dataset, called FF5, of five fake face image generators, including recent diffusion models. We find that a simple model trained on a specific image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Nela Petrzelkova , Jan Cech

The rapid progress of generative AI has enabled highly realistic image manipulations, including inpainting and region-level editing. These approaches preserve most of the original visual context and are increasingly exploited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Serafino Pandolfini , Lorenzo Pellegrini , Matteo Ferrara , Davide Maltoni

Deepfake or synthetic images produced using deep generative models pose serious risks to online platforms. This has triggered several research efforts to accurately detect deepfake images, achieving excellent performance on publicly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sifat Muhammad Abdullah , Aravind Cheruvu , Shravya Kanchi , Taejoong Chung , Peng Gao , Murtuza Jadliwala , Bimal Viswanath

The malicious misuse and widespread dissemination of AI-generated images pose a significant threat to the authenticity of online information. Current detection methods often struggle to generalize to unseen generative models, and the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hanyi Wang , Jun Lan , Yaoyu Kang , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Shilin Wang

The rapid progress in deep generative models has led to the creation of incredibly realistic synthetic images that are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from real-world data. The widespread use of Variational Models, Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Anant Mehta , Bryant McArthur , Nagarjuna Kolloju , Zhengzhong Tu

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of highly realistic fake facial images, posing serious threats to personal privacy and the integrity of online information. Existing deepfake detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Huanhuan Yuan , Yang Ping , Zhengqin Xu , Junyi Cao , Shuai Jia , Chao Ma

Over the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in creating synthetic media, mainly thanks to the development of powerful methods based on generative adversarial networks (GAN). Very recently, methods based on diffusion models (DM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Giada Zingarini , Giovanni Poggi , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva

The growing diversity of digital face manipulation techniques has led to an urgent need for a universal and robust detection technology to mitigate the risks posed by malicious forgeries. We present a blended-based detection approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yuyang Sun , Huy H. Nguyen , Chun-Shien Lu , ZhiYong Zhang , Lu Sun , Isao Echizen

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have become incredibly powerful in generating synthetic images. Of particular concern are generated images that resemble photographs as they aspire to represent real world events. Synthetic photographs may…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Melanie Mathys , Marco Willi , Raphael Meier