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Recent years have seen remarkable progress in deep learning powered visual content creation. This includes deep generative 3D-aware image synthesis, which produces high-idelity images in a 3D-consistent manner while simultaneously capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Weihao Xia , Jing-Hao Xue

The rapid advancement of generative image models has transformed digital media to the point where AI generated images can no longer be reliably distinguished from authentic photographs by human observers or many conventional detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohd Ruhul Ameen , Akif Islam

Evaluation of AI systems often requires synthetic test cases, particularly for rare or safety-critical conditions that are difficult to observe in operational data. Generative AI offers a promising approach for producing such data through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Damian J. Ruck , Paul Vautravers , Oliver Chalkley , Jake Thomas

Training medical AI algorithms requires large volumes of accurately labeled datasets, which are difficult to obtain in the real world. Synthetic images generated from deep generative models can help alleviate the data scarcity problem, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Xiaodan Xing , Yang Nan , Federico Felder , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

With the growing adoption of AI image generation, in conjunction with the ever-increasing environmental resources demanded by AI, we are urged to answer a fundamental question: What is the environmental impact hidden behind each image we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Giulia Bertazzini , Chiara Albisani , Daniele Baracchi , Dasara Shullani , Roberto Verdecchia

Deepfakes, synthetic media created using advanced AI techniques, pose a growing threat to information integrity, particularly in politically sensitive contexts. This challenge is amplified by the increasing realism of modern generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Victor Livernoche , Akshatha Arodi , Andreea Musulan , Zachary Yang , Adam Salvail , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Jean-François Godbout , Reihaneh Rabbany

The pursuit of a universal AI-generated image (AIGI) detector often relies on aggregating data from numerous generators to improve generalization. However, this paper identifies a paradoxical phenomenon we term the Benefit then Conflict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ziheng Qin , Yuheng Ji , Renshuai Tao , Yuxuan Tian , Yuyang Liu , Yipu Wang , Xiaolong Zheng

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, such as computer vision and deep learning, have led to the emergence of numerous generative AI platforms, particularly for image generation. However, the application of AI-generated image…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuying Tang , Mariana Ciancia , Zhigang Wang , Ze Gao

Image datasets serve as the foundation for machine learning models in computer vision, significantly influencing model capabilities, performance, and biases alongside architectural considerations. Therefore, understanding the composition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Florian Grötschla , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Marco Calzavara , Roger Wattenhofer

The demand for high-quality synthetic data for model training and augmentation has never been greater in medical imaging. However, current evaluations predominantly rely on computational metrics that fail to align with human expert…

The increasing realism of AI-generated images has raised serious concerns about misinformation and privacy violations, highlighting the urgent need for accurate and interpretable detection methods. While existing approaches have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tai-Ming Huang , Wei-Tung Lin , Kai-Lung Hua , Wen-Huang Cheng , Junichi Yamagishi , Jun-Cheng Chen

We introduce SynthID-Image, a deep learning-based system for invisibly watermarking AI-generated imagery. This paper documents the technical desiderata, threat models, and practical challenges of deploying such a system at internet scale,…

As the misuse of AI-generated images grows, generalizable image detection techniques are urgently needed. Recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods adopt aligned training datasets to reduce content, size, and format biases, empowering models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yiheng Li , Yang Yang , Zichang Tan , Gao Li , Zhen Lei , Wenhao Wang

Recent generative models produce near-photorealistic images, challenging the trustworthiness of photographs. Synthetic image detection (SID) has thus become an important area of research. Prior work has highlighted how synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Marco Willi , Melanie Mathys , Michael Graber

While the efficacy of deep learning models heavily relies on data, gathering and annotating data for specific tasks, particularly when addressing novel or sensitive subjects lacking relevant datasets, poses significant time and resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Quang-Binh Nguyen , Trong-Vu Hoang , Ngoc-Do Tran , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

The rapid growth of generative AI technologies has heightened the importance of effectively distinguishing between human and AI-generated content, as well as classifying outputs from diverse generative models. This paper presents a scalable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Anh-Kiet Duong , Petra Gomez-Krämer

The expanse of information available over the internet makes it difficult to identify whether a specific work is a replica or a duplication of a protected work, especially if we talk about visual representations. Strategies are planned to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ashutosh , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya

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

Often machine learning models tend to automatically learn associations present in the training data without questioning their validity or appropriateness. This undesirable property is the root cause of the manifestation of spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu , Chirag Shah

Creating high-quality and realistic images is now possible thanks to the impressive advancements in image generation. A description in natural language of your desired output is all you need to obtain breathtaking results. However, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Giuseppe Cartella , Vittorio Cuculo , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara