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Conventional, classification-based AI-generated image detection methods cannot explain why an image is considered real or AI-generated in a way a human expert would, which reduces the trustworthiness and persuasiveness of these detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Michael Yang , Shijian Deng , William T. Doan , Kai Wang , Tianyu Yang , Harsh Singh , Yapeng Tian

In the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), a central challenge is distinguishing AI-synthesized images from natural ones. Despite the impressive capabilities of advanced generative models in producing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Renyang Liu , Ziyu Lyu , Wei Zhou , See-Kiong Ng

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aadi Srivastava , Vignesh Natarajkumar , Utkarsh Bheemanaboyna , Devisree Akashapu , Nagraj Gaonkar , Archit Joshi

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

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

The extraordinary ability of generative models enabled the generation of images with such high quality that human beings cannot distinguish Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated images from real-life photographs. The development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yan Hong , Jianfu Zhang

The rapid advances in generative AI models have empowered the creation of highly realistic images with arbitrary content, raising concerns about potential misuse and harm, such as Deepfakes. Current research focuses on training detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Zhiyuan He , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho

As generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances, the realism of AI generated imagery has reached a threshold capable of deceiving even vigilant human observers. Yet, while current AI-generated Image Detection (AID) approaches perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Despina Konstantinidou , Dimitrios Karageorgiou , Christos Koutlis , Olga Papadopoulou , Emmanouil Schinas , Symeon Papadopoulos

The rapid progress of generative models has enabled the creation of highly realistic synthetic images, raising concerns about authenticity and trust in digital media. Detecting such fake content reliably is an urgent challenge. While deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Syed Mehedi Hasan Nirob , Moqsadur Rahman , Shamim Ehsan , Summit Haque

Detecting AI-generated images has become an extraordinarily difficult challenge as new generative architectures emerge on a daily basis with more and more capabilities and unprecedented realism. New versions of many commercial tools, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Matthias Nießner , Luisa Verdoliva

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…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Thomas Roca , Anthony Cintron Roman , Jehú Torres Vega , Marcelo Duarte , Pengce Wang , Kevin White , Amit Misra , Juan Lavista Ferres

Identifying AI-generated content is critical for the safe and ethical use of generative AI. Recent research has focused on developing detectors that generalize to unknown generators, with popular methods relying either on high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Seoyeon Gye , Junwon Ko , Hyounguk Shon , Minchan Kwon , Junmo Kim

The recent development of generative models unleashes the potential of generating hyper-realistic fake images. To prevent the malicious usage of fake images, AI-generated image detection aims to distinguish fake images from real images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jiaxuan Chen , Jieteng Yao , Li Niu

The rapid development of generative models has made it increasingly crucial to develop detectors that can reliably detect synthetic images. Although most of the work has now focused on cross-generator generalization, we argue that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Amirtaha Amanzadi , Zahra Dehghanian , Hamid Beigy , Hamid R. Rabiee

The tremendous recent advances in generative artificial intelligence techniques have led to significant successes and promise in a wide range of different applications ranging from conversational agents and textual content generation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hossein Aboutalebi , Dayou Mao , Rongqi Fan , Carol Xu , Chris He , Alexander Wong

The aim of this work is to explore the potential of pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) for universal detection of AI-generated images. We develop a lightweight detection strategy based on CLIP features and study its performance in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Riccardo Corvi , Matthias Nießner , Luisa Verdoliva

Diffusion-based image synthesis has made AI-generated images (AIGI) increasingly photorealistic, raising urgent concerns about authenticity in applications such as misinformation detection, digital forensics, and content moderation. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zhipei Xu , Xuanyu Zhang , Youmin Xu , Qing Huang , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Jian Zhang

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

The accelerated advancement of generative AI significantly enhance the viability and effectiveness of generative regional editing methods. This evolution render the image manipulation more accessible, thereby intensifying the risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhihao Sun , Haipeng Fang , Xinying Zhao , Danding Wang , Juan Cao

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