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An experimental study on detecting synthetic face images is presented. We collected a dataset, called FF5, of five fake face image generators, including recent diffusion models. We find that a simple model trained on a specific image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Nela Petrzelkova , Jan Cech

As latent diffusion models (LDMs) democratize image generation capabilities, there is a growing need to detect fake images. A good detector should focus on the generative models fingerprints while ignoring image properties such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anirudh Sundara Rajan , Utkarsh Ojha , Jedidiah Schloesser , Yong Jae Lee

Diffusion models have recently achieved astonishing performance in generating high-fidelity photo-realistic images. Given their huge success, it is still unclear whether synthetic images are applicable for knowledge distillation when real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zheng Li , Yuxuan Li , Penghai Zhao , Renjie Song , Xiang Li , Jian Yang

Stable Diffusion is a recent open-source image generation model comparable to proprietary models such as DALLE, Imagen, or Parti. Stable Diffusion comes with a safety filter that aims to prevent generating explicit images. Unfortunately,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Javier Rando , Daniel Paleka , David Lindner , Lennart Heim , Florian Tramèr

Text-to-image synthesis has become highly popular for generating realistic and stylized images, often requiring fine-tuning generative models with domain-specific datasets for specialized tasks. However, these valuable datasets face risks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Songrui Wang , Yubo Zhu , Wei Tong , Sheng Zhong

Synthetic image data generation represents a promising avenue for training deep learning models, particularly in the realm of transfer learning, where obtaining real images within a specific domain can be prohibitively expensive due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yuhang Li , Xin Dong , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Yuxin Wen , Michael Spranger , Lingjuan Lyu

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

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable a wide range of applications but raise ethical concerns regarding illegal utilization. Adding watermarks to generative model outputs is a vital technique employed for copyright tracking and mitigating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Liangqi Lei , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu

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

The possibility of carrying out a meaningful forensics analysis on printed and scanned images plays a major role in many applications. First of all, printed documents are often associated with criminal activities, such as terrorist plans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Anselmo Ferreira , Ehsan Nowroozi , Mauro Barni

Generative image modeling enables a wide range of applications but raises ethical concerns about responsible deployment. This paper introduces an active strategy combining image watermarking and Latent Diffusion Models. The goal is for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Pierre Fernandez , Guillaume Couairon , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze , Teddy Furon

The rise of deepfake images, especially of well-known personalities, poses a serious threat to the dissemination of authentic information. To tackle this, we present a thorough investigation into how deepfakes are produced and how they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haixu Song , Shiyu Huang , Yinpeng Dong , Wei-Wei Tu

The remarkable ease of use of diffusion models for image generation has led to a proliferation of synthetic content online. While these models are often employed for legitimate purposes, they are also used to generate fake images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Giulia Bertazzini , Daniele Baracchi , Dasara Shullani , Isao Echizen , Alessandro Piva

Background: Text-to-image generation models are widely used across numerous domains. Among these models, Stable Diffusion (SD) - an open-source text-to-image generation model - has become the most popular, producing over 12 billion images…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Giordano d'Aloisio , Tosin Fadahunsi , Jay Choy , Rebecca Moussa , Federica Sarro

As neural networks become able to generate realistic artificial images, they have the potential to improve movies, music, video games and make the internet an even more creative and inspiring place. Yet, the latest technology potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Moritz Wolter , Felix Blanke , Raoul Heese , Jochen Garcke

Generative image models have recently shown significant progress in image realism, leading to public concerns about their potential misuse for document forgery. This paper explores whether contemporary open-source and publicly accessible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Alexander Vinogradov

We propose a method for generating spurious features by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models. Although the previous work detects spurious features in a large-scale dataset like ImageNet and introduces Spurious ImageNet, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Huy H. Nguyen , Hitoshi Kiya , Isao Echizen

The steady improvement of Diffusion Models for visual synthesis has given rise to many new and interesting use cases of synthetic images but also has raised concerns about their potential abuse, which poses significant societal threats. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Dario Cioni , Christos Tzelepis , Lorenzo Seidenari , Ioannis Patras

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

In layout-to-image (L2I) synthesis, controlled complex scenes are generated from coarse information like bounding boxes. Such a task is exciting to many downstream applications because the input layouts offer strong guidance to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ruyu Wang , Xuefeng Hou , Sabrina Schmedding , Marco F. Huber