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AI-generated images have reached a quality level at which humans are incapable of reliably distinguishing them from real images. To counteract the inherent risk of fraud and disinformation, the detection of AI-generated images is a pressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hicham Eddoubi , Jonas Ricker , Federico Cocchi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Angelo Sotgiu , Maura Pintor , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Asja Fischer , Rita Cucchiara , Battista Biggio

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

Rapid advancement in generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has enabled the generation of highly realistic and contextually relevant digital content. LLMs such as ChatGPT with DALL-E integration and Stable Diffusion techniques can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Jitendra Sharma , Arthur Carvalho , Suman Bhunia

The rapid advancement of generative AI has enabled the creation of highly photorealistic visual content, offering practical substitutes for real images and videos in scenarios where acquiring real data is difficult or expensive. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Aniruddha Mukherjee , Spriha Dubey , Somdyuti Paul

The rapid advancement in generative AI models has enabled the creation of photorealistic images. At the same time, there are growing concerns about the potential misuse and dangers of generated content, as well as a pressing need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zhenhan Huang , Pin-Yu Chen , Tejaswini Pedapati , Jianxi Gao

New advancements for the detection of synthetic images are critical for fighting disinformation, as the capabilities of generative AI models continuously evolve and can lead to hyper-realistic synthetic imagery at unprecedented scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Pantelis Dogoulis , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

With advancements in AI-generated images coming on a continuous basis, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish traditionally-sourced images (e.g., photos, artwork) from AI-generated ones. Previous detection methods study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 David C. Epstein , Ishan Jain , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang

One of the key challenges of detecting AI-generated images is spotting images that have been created by previously unseen generative models. We argue that the limited diversity of the training data is a major obstacle to addressing this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jeongsoo Park , Andrew Owens

Recent generative models produce images with a level of authenticity that makes them nearly indistinguishable from real photos and artwork. Potential harmful use cases of these models, necessitate the creation of robust synthetic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Delyan Boychev , Radostin Cholakov

Generative image models have emerged as a promising technology to produce realistic images. Despite potential benefits, concerns grow about its misuse, particularly in generating deceptive images that could raise significant ethical, legal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Jinbin Huang , Chen Chen , Aditi Mishra , Bum Chul Kwon , Zhicheng Liu , Chris Bryan

The rapid progress of generative models, such as GANs and diffusion models, has facilitated the creation of highly realistic images, raising growing concerns over their misuse in security-sensitive domains. While existing detectors perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiazhen Yan , Fan Wang , Weiwei Jiang , Ziqiang Li , Zhangjie Fu

The advent of generative AI images has completely disrupted the art world. Distinguishing AI generated images from human art is a challenging problem whose impact is growing over time. A failure to address this problem allows bad actors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Anna Yoo Jeong Ha , Josephine Passananti , Ronik Bhaskar , Shawn Shan , Reid Southen , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

The generative AI technology offers an increasing variety of tools for generating entirely synthetic images that are increasingly indistinguishable from real ones. Unlike methods that alter portions of an image, the creation of completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Manos Schinas , Symeon Papadopoulos

Over the past years, image generation and manipulation have achieved remarkable progress due to the rapid development of generative AI based on deep learning. Recent studies have devoted significant efforts to address the problem of face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi

Assessing the artness of AI-generated images continues to be a challenge within the realm of image generation. Most existing metrics cannot be used to perform instance-level and reference-free artness evaluation. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Junyu Chen , Jie An , Hanjia Lyu , Christopher Kanan , Jiebo Luo

As AI-generated image (AIGI) methods become more powerful and accessible, it has become a critical task to determine if an image is real or AI-generated. Because AIGI lack the signatures of photographs and have their own unique patterns,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 A. G. Moskowitz , T. Gaona , J. Peterson

With the rapid advancement of generative AI, it is now possible to synthesize high-quality images in a few seconds. Despite the power of these technologies, they raise significant concerns regarding misuse. Current efforts to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Siyuan Cheng , Lingjuan Lyu , Zhenting Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Vikash Sehwag

Recent technological advances in synthetic data have enabled the generation of images with such high quality that human beings cannot tell the difference between real-life photographs and Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated images. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jordan J. Bird , Ahmad Lotfi

Photos serve as a way for humans to record what they experience in their daily lives, and they are often regarded as trustworthy sources of information. However, there is a growing concern that the advancement of artificial intelligence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zeyu Lu , Di Huang , Lei Bai , Jingjing Qu , Chengyue Wu , Xihui Liu , Wanli Ouyang

The high-quality, realistic images generated by generative models pose significant challenges for exposing them.So far, data-driven deep neural networks have been justified as the most efficient forensics tools for the challenges. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Feng Ding , Jun Zhang , Xinan He , Jianfeng Xu