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The interest of the machine learning community in image synthesis has grown significantly in recent years, with the introduction of a wide range of deep generative models and means for training them. In this work, we propose a general…

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As AI-powered image generation improves, a key question is how well human beings can differentiate between "real" and AI-generated or modified images. Using data collected from the online game "Real or Not Quiz.", this study investigates…

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The widespread and rapid adoption of AI-generated content, created by models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Diffusion Models, has revolutionized the digital media landscape by allowing efficient and creative content…

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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

Recent image generators produce photo-realistic content that undermines the reliability of downstream recognition systems. As visual appearance cues become less pronounced, appearance-driven detectors that rely on forensic cues or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinchang Wang , Yunhao Chen , Yuechen Zhang , Congcong Bian , Zihao Guo , Xingjun Ma , Hui Li

AI-based image generation has continued to rapidly improve, producing increasingly more realistic images with fewer obvious visual flaws. AI-generated images are being used to create fake online profiles which in turn are being used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Gonzalo J. Aniano Porcile , Jack Gindi , Shivansh Mundra , James R. Verbus , Hany Farid

While specialized detectors for AI-Generated Images (AIGI) achieve near-perfect accuracy on curated benchmarks, they suffer from a dramatic performance collapse in realistic, in-the-wild scenarios. In this work, we demonstrate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yue Zhou , Xinan He , Kaiqing Lin , Bing Fan , Feng Ding , Bin Li

The image deepfake detection task has been greatly addressed by the scientific community to discriminate real images from those generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) models: a binary classification task. In this work, the deepfake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Luca Guarnera , Oliver Giudice , Sebastiano Battiato

The misuse of AI imagery can have harmful societal effects, prompting the creation of detectors to combat issues like the spread of fake news. Existing methods can effectively detect images generated by seen generators, but it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Mingjian Zhu , Hanting Chen , Mouxiao Huang , Wei Li , Hailin Hu , Jie Hu , Yunhe Wang

Model fingerprint detection has shown promise to trace the provenance of AI-generated images in forensic applications. However, despite the inherent adversarial nature of these applications, existing evaluations rarely consider adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Kai Yao , Marc Juarez

With the rapid evolution of AI Generated Content (AIGC), forged images produced through this technology are inherently more deceptive and require less human intervention compared to traditional Computer-generated Graphics (CG). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Ziyi Xi , Wenmin Huang , Kangkang Wei , Weiqi Luo , Peijia Zheng

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), trained on a large-scale image dataset, can be a good approximator of the natural image manifold. GAN-inversion, using a pre-trained generator as a deep generative prior, is a promising tool for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Shancong Mou , Xiaoyi Gu , Meng Cao , Haoping Bai , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan , Jianjun Shi

With the rapid proliferation of image generative models, the authenticity of digital images has become a significant concern. While existing studies have proposed various methods for detecting AI-generated content, current benchmarks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Huixuan Zhang , Xiaojun Wan

Existing deep learning real denoising methods require a large amount of noisy-clean image pairs for supervision. Nonetheless, capturing a real noisy-clean dataset is an unacceptable expensive and cumbersome procedure. To alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Yuanhao Cai , Xiaowan Hu , Haoqian Wang , Yulun Zhang , Hanspeter Pfister , Donglai Wei

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) aims to identify abnormal regions by establishing correspondences between test images and normal templates. Existing methods primarily rely on image reconstruction or template retrieval but face a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mingxiu Cai , Zhe Zhang , Gaochang Wu , Tianyou Chai , Xiatian Zhu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuying Li , Zeyan Liu , Junyi Zhao , Liangqin Ren , Fengjun Li , Jiebo Luo , Bo Luo

Detecting AI-generated images, particularly deepfakes, has become increasingly crucial, with the primary challenge being the generalization to previously unseen manipulation methods. This paper tackles this issue by leveraging the forgery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wentang Song , Zhiyuan Yan , Yuzhen Lin , Taiping Yao , Changsheng Chen , Shen Chen , Yandan Zhao , Shouhong Ding , Bin Li

Quantization has emerged as a promising direction for model compression. Recently, data-free quantization has been widely studied as a promising method to avoid privacy concerns, which synthesizes images as an alternative to real training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jianhong Bai , Yuchen Yang , Huanpeng Chu , Hualiang Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Ruizhe Chen , Xiaoxuan He , Lianrui Mu , Chengfei Cai , Haoji Hu

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

Detecting AI-generated images (AIGI) remains challenging because detectors often fail to generalize to unseen generators. Although existing methods are trained on large datasets, their performance still degrades when generation settings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zijie Cao , Weijie Tu , Yao Xiao , Weijian Deng , Liang Lin , Pengxu Wei