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With the aim of detecting AI-generated images and identifying the specific models responsible for their generation, we propose a multi-modal multi-task model. The model leverages pre-trained BERT and CLIP Vision encoders for text and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiaoyu Guo , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Generative AI technologies produce increasingly realistic imagery, which, despite its potential for creative applications, can also be misused to produce misleading and harmful content. This renders Synthetic Image Detection (SID) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Despina Konstantinidou , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos

The widespread adoption of generative image models has highlighted the urgent need to detect artificial content, which is a crucial step in combating widespread manipulation and misinformation. Consequently, numerous detectors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Patrick Grommelt , Louis Weiss , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper

The rapid advancement of generative models in creating highly realistic images poses substantial risks for misinformation dissemination. For instance, a synthetic image, when shared on social media, can mislead extensive audiences and erode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhenglin Huang , Jinwei Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yiwei He , Xingyu Zhao , Bei Peng , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaowei Huang , Guangliang Cheng

AI-generated images have become increasingly realistic and have garnered significant public attention. While synthetic images are intriguing due to their realism, they also pose an important misinformation threat. To address this new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Shengbang Fang , Tai D. Nguyen , Matthew C. Stamm

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning and generative systems have significantly fostered the creation of synthetic media, as well as the local alteration of real content via the insertion of highly realistic synthetic manipulations. Local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Anmol Manjunath , Viola Negroni , Sara Mandelli , Daniel Moreira , Paolo Bestagini

Generative models have made immense progress in recent years, particularly in their ability to generate high quality images. However, that quality has been difficult to evaluate rigorously, with evaluation dominated by heuristic approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Y. Alex Kolchinski , Sharon Zhou , Shengjia Zhao , Mitchell Gordon , Stefano Ermon

The rapid progress of text-to-image models has made AI-generated images increasingly realistic, posing significant challenges for accurate detection of generated content. While training-based detectors often suffer from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ryosuke Sonoda , Ramya Srinivasan

Recent generative data augmentation methods conditioned on both image and text prompts struggle to balance between fidelity and diversity, as it is challenging to preserve essential image details while aligning with varied text prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tianchen Zhao , Xuanbai Chen , Zhihua Li , Jun Fang , Dongsheng An , Xiang Xu , Zhuowen Tu , Yifan Xing

Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence have led to remarkable improvements in generating realistic human faces. While these advancements demonstrate significant progress in generative models, they also raise concerns about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jin Huang , Subhadra Gopalakrishnan , Trisha Mittal , Jake Zuena , Jaclyn Pytlarz

The advent of accessible Generative AI tools enables anyone to create and spread synthetic images on social media, often with the intention to mislead, thus posing a significant threat to online information integrity. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Efthymia Amarantidou , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis

Web-based AI image generation has become an innovative art form that can generate novel artworks with the rapid development of the diffusion model. However, this new technique brings potential copyright infringement risks as it may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Junlei Zhou , Jiashi Gao , Ziwei Wang , Xuetao Wei

As generative models continue to evolve, detecting AI-generated images remains a critical challenge. While effective detection methods exist, they often lack formal interpretability and may rely on implicit assumptions about fake content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haim Zisman , Uri Shaham

In this work we present an overview of approaches for the detection and attribution of synthetic images and highlight their strengths and weaknesses. We also point out and discuss hot topics in this field and outline promising directions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Diangarti Tariang , Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva

This paper explores the image synthesis capabilities of GPT-4, a leading multi-modal large language model. We establish a benchmark for evaluating the fidelity of texture features in images generated by GPT-4, comprising manually painted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Wentao Wang , Xuanyao Huang , Tianyang Wang , Swalpa Kumar Roy

Text-to-image generation models that generate images based on prompt descriptions have attracted an increasing amount of attention during the past few months. Despite their encouraging performance, these models raise concerns about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zeyang Sha , Zheng Li , Ning Yu , Yang Zhang

The heightened realism of AI-generated images can be attributed to the rapid development of synthetic models, including generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models (DMs). The malevolent use of synthetic images, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Haiwei Wu , Jiantao Zhou , Shile Zhang

As AI-generated video becomes increasingly pervasive across media platforms, the ability to reliably distinguish synthetic content from authentic footage has become both urgent and essential. Existing approaches have primarily treated this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yifeng Gao , Yifan Ding , Hongyu Su , Juncheng Li , Yunhan Zhao , Lin Luo , Zixing Chen , Li Wang , Xin Wang , Yixu Wang , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

With the advent of publicly available AI-based text-to-image systems, the process of creating photorealistic but fully synthetic images has been largely democratized. This can pose a threat to the public through a simplified spread of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Philipp Moeßner , Heike Adel

The recent surge in advanced generative models, such as diffusion models and generative adversarial networks (GANs), has led to an alarming rise in AI-generated images across various domains on the web. While such technologies offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jocelyn Dzuong