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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

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

Face image synthesis has progressed beyond the point at which humans can effectively distinguish authentic faces from synthetically generated ones. Recently developed synthetic face image detectors boast "better-than-human" discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Aidan Boyd , Patrick Tinsley , Kevin Bowyer , Adam Czajka

The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Images (AGIs) has greatly expanded the Image Naturalness Assessment (INA) problem. Different from early definitions that mainly focus on tone-mapped images with limited distortions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zijian Chen , Wei Sun , Haoning Wu , Zicheng Zhang , Jun Jia , Zhongpeng Ji , Fengyu Sun , Shangling Jui , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai , Wenjun Zhang

The advent of deep learning has brought a significant improvement in the quality of generated media. However, with the increased level of photorealism, synthetic media are becoming hardly distinguishable from real ones, raising serious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Diego Gragnaniello , Davide Cozzolino , Francesco Marra , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

With the rapid advancement of AI generative models, the visual quality of AI-generated images (AIIs) has become increasingly close to natural images, which inevitably raises security concerns. Most AII detectors often employ the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhipeng Yuan , Kai Wang , Weize Quan , Dong-Ming Yan , Tieru Wu

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

The growing realism of AI-generated images produced by recent GAN and diffusion models has intensified concerns over the reliability of visual media. Yet, despite notable progress in deepfake detection, current forensic systems degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Anshul Bagaria

Recent advances in AI-generated content have fueled the rise of highly realistic synthetic videos, posing severe risks to societal trust and digital integrity. Existing benchmarks for video authenticity detection typically suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jieyu Li , Xin Zhang , Joey Tianyi Zhou

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

The recent proliferation of photorealistic AI-generated images (AIGI) has raised urgent concerns about their potential misuse, particularly on social media platforms. Current state-of-the-art AIGI detection methods typically rely on large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nicholas Chivaran , Jianbing Ni

The rapid advancement of generative models has made the detection of AI-generated images a critical challenge for both research and society. Recent works have shown that most state-of-the-art fake image detection methods overfit to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Aayush Dhakal , Subash Khanal , Srikumar Sastry , Jacob Arndt , Philipe Ambrozio Dias , Dalton Lunga , Nathan Jacobs

Robust detection of AI-generated images in the wild remains challenging due to the rapid evolution of generative models and varied real-world distortions. We argue that relying on a single training regime, resolution, or backbone is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Fei Wu , Dagong Lu , Mufeng Yao , Xinlei Xu , Fengjun Guo

The advancement of visual intelligence is intrinsically tethered to the availability of large-scale data. In parallel, generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has unlocked the potential to create synthetic images that closely resemble…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zuhao Yang , Fangneng Zhan , Kunhao Liu , Muyu Xu , Shijian Lu

Context-based detection methods such as DetectGPT achieve strong generalization in identifying AI-generated text by evaluating content compatibility with a model's learned distribution. In contrast, existing image detectors rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minsuk Jang , Hyunseo Jeong , Minseok Son , Changick Kim

With the development of the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and DeepFakes, AI-synthesized images are now of such high quality that humans can hardly distinguish them from real images. It is imperative for media forensics to develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yan Ju , Shan Jia , Lipeng Ke , Hongfei Xue , Koki Nagano , Siwei Lyu

Despite an impressive performance from the latest GAN for generating hyper-realistic images, GAN discriminators have difficulty evaluating the quality of an individual generated sample. This is because the task of evaluating the quality of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Xiru Zhu , Fengdi Che , Tianzi Yang , Tzuyang Yu , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

The rapid evolution of generative technologies necessitates reliable methods for detecting AI-generated images. A critical limitation of current detectors is their failure to generalize to images from unseen generative models, as they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Chenming Zhou , Jiaan Wang , Yu Li , Lei Li , Juan Cao , Sheng Tang

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

Multimodal generative AI systems like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and MidJourney have fundamentally changed how synthetic images are created. These tools drive innovation but also enable the spread of misleading content, false information,…