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The advent of accessible Generative AI tools enables anyone to create and spread synthetic images on social media, often with the intention to mislead, thus posing a significant threat to online information integrity. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Efthymia Amarantidou , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis

Although Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) can be used to generate the realistic image, improper use of these technologies brings hidden concerns. For example, GAN can be used to generate a tampered video for specific people and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Yen Lee , Yi-Xiu Zhuang

Text-to-image (T2I) generation aims at producing realistic images corresponding to text descriptions. Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has proven to be successful in this task. Typical T2I GANs are 2 phase methods that first pretrain an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yibin Liu , Jianyu Zhang , Li Zhang , Shijian Li , Gang Pan

Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled the creation of deceptively real images, posing significant security risks when misused. In this study, we empirically show that different timesteps of DDIM inversion reveal varying subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yixin Wu , Feiran Zhang , Tianyuan Shi , Ruicheng Yin , Zhenghua Wang , Zhenliang Gan , Xiaohua Wang , Changze Lv , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

Digitally retouching images has become a popular trend, with people posting altered images on social media and even magazines posting flawless facial images of celebrities. Further, with advancements in Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Anubhav Jain , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa

The rapid evolution of generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models has made synthetic media increasingly realistic, raising societal concerns around misinformation, identity fraud, and digital trust. Existing deepfake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sales Aribe

We propose a novel ECGAN for the challenging semantic image synthesis task. Although considerable improvement has been achieved, the quality of synthesized images is far from satisfactory due to three largely unresolved challenges. 1) The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Hao Tang , Xiaojuan Qi , Guolei Sun , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

We propose a novel ECGAN for the challenging semantic image synthesis task. Although considerable improvements have been achieved by the community in the recent period, the quality of synthesized images is far from satisfactory due to three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hao Tang , Guolei Sun , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool

With the rapid development of deep generative models (such as Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion models), AI-synthesized images are now of such high quality that humans can hardly distinguish them from pristine ones. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yan Ju , Shan Jia , Jialing Cai , Haiying Guan , Siwei Lyu

Visually realistic GAN-generated facial images raise obvious concerns on potential misuse. Many effective forensic algorithms have been developed to detect such synthetic images in recent years. It is significant to assess the vulnerability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Zijie Lou , Gang Cao , Man Lin

Recent generative models demonstrate impressive performance on synthesizing photographic images, which makes humans hardly to distinguish them from pristine ones, especially on realistic-looking synthetic facial images. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Hao Wang , Cheng Deng , Zhidong Zhao

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

In this research, we introduce an innovative method for synthesizing medical images using generative adversarial networks (GANs). Our proposed GANs method demonstrates the capability to produce realistic synthetic images even when trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yinqiu Feng , Bo Zhang , Lingxi Xiao , Yutian Yang , Tana Gegen , Zexi Chen

Attribute guided face image synthesis aims to manipulate attributes on a face image. Most existing methods for image-to-image translation can either perform a fixed translation between any two image domains using a single attribute or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

With recent progress in graphics, it has become more tractable to train models on synthetic images, potentially avoiding the need for expensive annotations. However, learning from synthetic images may not achieve the desired performance due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Ashish Shrivastava , Tomas Pfister , Oncel Tuzel , Josh Susskind , Wenda Wang , Russ Webb

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 rapid advancement of generative AI has revolutionized image creation, enabling high-quality synthesis from text prompts while raising critical challenges for media authenticity. We present Ai-GenBench, a novel benchmark designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Lorenzo Pellegrini , Davide Cozzolino , Serafino Pandolfini , Davide Maltoni , Matteo Ferrara , Luisa Verdoliva , Marco Prati , Marco Ramilli

We describe a novel learning-by-synthesis method for estimating gaze direction of an automated intelligent surveillance system. Recently, progress in learning-by-synthesis has proposed training models on synthetic images, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Tongtong Zhao , Yuxiao Yan , Jinjia Peng , Zetian Mi , Xianping Fu

Recent research has shown that it is possible to find interpretable directions in the latent spaces of pre-trained Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). These directions enable controllable image generation and support a wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Oğuz Kaan Yüksel , Enis Simsar , Ezgi Gülperi Er , Pinar Yanardag

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