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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate realistic fake face images that can easily fool human beings.On the contrary, a common Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) discriminator can achieve more than 99.9% accuracyin discerning…

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The rapid advancement in deep learning makes the differentiation of authentic and manipulated facial images and video clips unprecedentedly harder. The underlying technology of manipulating facial appearances through deep generative…

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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

AI-generated faces have enriched human life, such as entertainment, education, and art. However, they also pose misuse risks. Therefore, detecting AI-generated faces becomes crucial, yet current detectors show biased performance across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Li Lin , Santosh , Mingyang Wu , Xin Wang , Shu Hu

In the realm of digital media, the advent of AI-generated synthetic images has introduced significant challenges in distinguishing between real and fabricated visual content. These images, often indistinguishable from authentic ones, pose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuyang Wang , Yizhi Hao , Amando Xu Cong

Recent years have seen fast development in synthesizing realistic human faces using AI technologies. Such fake faces can be weaponized to cause negative personal and social impact. In this work, we develop technologies to defend individuals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Yuezun Li , Xin Yang , Baoyuan Wu , Siwei Lyu

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 exponential progress in generative AI poses serious implications for the credibility of all real images and videos. There will exist a point in the future where 1) digital content produced by generative AI will be indistinguishable from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Alexander Vilesov , Yuan Tian , Nader Sehatbakhsh , Achuta Kadambi

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

Computer vision systems have been deployed in various applications involving biometrics like human faces. These systems can identify social media users, search for missing persons, and verify identity of individuals. While computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Guruprasad V Ramesh , Harrison Rosenberg , Ashish Hooda , Shimaa Ahmed Kassem Fawaz

Recently, crowd-sourced online criminal investigations have used generative-AI to enhance low-quality visual evidence. In one high-profile case, social-media users circulated an "AI-unmasked" image of a federal agent involved in a fatal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Emily A Cooper , Hany Farid

In recent years, deep learning methods have become increasingly capable of generating near photorealistic pictures and humanlike text up to the point that humans can no longer recognize what is real and what is AI-generated. Concerningly,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Sippo Rossi , Youngjin Kwon , Odd Harald Auglend , Raghava Rao Mukkamala , Matti Rossi , Jason Thatcher

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

Generative AI models can produce high-quality images based on text prompts. The generated images often appear indistinguishable from images generated by conventional optical photography devices or created by human artists (i.e., real…

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Deep generative models have recently achieved impressive results for many real-world applications, successfully generating high-resolution and diverse samples from complex datasets. Due to this improvement, fake digital contents have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Ricard Durall , Margret Keuper , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper

In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) and its variants have achieved unprecedented success in image synthesis. They are widely adopted in synthesizing facial images which brings potential security concerns to humans as the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Run Wang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Lei Ma , Xiaofei Xie , Yihao Huang , Jian Wang , Yang Liu

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly increased the performance of face recognition systems. The performance and reliability of these models depend heavily on the amount and quality of the training data. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Adam Kortylewski , Andreas Schneider , Thomas Gerig , Bernhard Egger , Andreas Morel-Forster , Thomas Vetter

Generative adversary network (GAN) generated high-realistic human faces have been used as profile images for fake social media accounts and are visually challenging to discern from real ones. In this work, we show that GAN-generated faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Hui Guo , Shu Hu , Xin Wang , Ming-Ching Chang , Siwei Lyu

Recent advances in Generative AI (GenAI) have led to significant improvements in the quality of generated visual content. As AI-generated visual content becomes increasingly indistinguishable from real content, the challenge of detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Keerthi Veeramachaneni , Praveen Tirupattur , Amrit Singh Bedi , Mubarak Shah

Advances in generative models have created Artificial Intelligence-Generated Images (AIGIs) nearly indistinguishable from real photographs. Leveraging a large corpus of 30,824 AIGIs collected from Instagram and Twitter, and combining…

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