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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…

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Accurate single cell detection in brightfield microscopy is crucial for biological research, yet data scarcity and annotation bottlenecks limit the progress of deep learning methods. We investigate the use of unconditional models to…

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Scene text detection techniques have garnered significant attention due to their wide-ranging applications. However, existing methods have a high demand for training data, and obtaining accurate human annotations is labor-intensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Ling Fu , Zijie Wu , Yingying Zhu , Yuliang Liu , Xiang Bai

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

Recent progress in generative models has made it easier for a wide audience to edit and create image content, raising concerns about the proliferation of deepfakes, especially in healthcare. Despite the availability of numerous techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Fred Grabovski , Lior Yasur , Guy Amit , Yisroel Mirsky

Detecting diffusion-generated images has recently grown into an emerging research area. Existing diffusion-based datasets predominantly focus on general image generation. However, facial forgeries, which pose a more severe social risk, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Harry Cheng , Yangyang Guo , Tianyi Wang , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Diffusion models have shown remarkable success in visual synthesis, but have also raised concerns about potential abuse for malicious purposes. In this paper, we seek to build a detector for telling apart real images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Zhendong Wang , Jianmin Bao , Wengang Zhou , Weilun Wang , Hezhen Hu , Hong Chen , Houqiang Li

The rapid progress in generative models has given rise to the critical task of AI-Generated Content Stealth (AIGC-S), which aims to create AI-generated images that can evade both forensic detectors and human inspection. This task is crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ziyin Zhou , Ke Sun , Zhongxi Chen , Huafeng Kuang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Conditional diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in image manipulation tasks. The general pipeline involves adding noise to the image and then denoising it. However, this method faces a trade-off problem: adding too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Luozhou Wang , Shuai Yang , Shu Liu , Ying-cong Chen

A diffusion model, which is formulated to produce an image using thousands of denoising steps, usually suffers from a slow inference speed. Existing acceleration algorithms simplify the sampling by skipping most steps yet exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mengfei Xia , Yujun Shen , Changsong Lei , Yu Zhou , Ran Yi , Deli Zhao , Wenping Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

Detecting fake images is becoming a major goal of computer vision. This need is becoming more and more pressing with the continuous improvement of synthesis methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), and even more with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva

We present novel approaches involving generative adversarial networks and diffusion models in order to synthesize high quality, live and spoof fingerprint images while preserving features such as uniqueness and diversity. We generate live…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 W. Tang , D. Figueroa , D. Liu , K. Johnsson , A. Sopasakis

The rapid advancement of diffusion-based image generators has made it increasingly difficult to distinguish generated from real images. This erodes trust in digital media, making it critical to develop generated image detectors that remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ana Vasilcoiu , Ivona Najdenkoska , Zeno Geradts , Marcel Worring

Differentially private (DP) image synthesis aims to generate synthetic images from a sensitive dataset, alleviating the privacy leakage concerns of organizations sharing and utilizing synthetic images. Although previous methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kecen Li , Chen Gong , Xiaochen Li , Yuzhong Zhao , Xinwen Hou , Tianhao Wang

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

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

Recent advancements in text-guided diffusion models have unlocked powerful image manipulation capabilities. However, applying these methods to real images necessitates the inversion of the images into the domain of the pretrained diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Daniel Garibi , Or Patashnik , Andrey Voynov , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Daniel Cohen-Or

In this paper, we present the Directly Denoising Diffusion Model (DDDM): a simple and generic approach for generating realistic images with few-step sampling, while multistep sampling is still preserved for better performance. DDDMs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Dan Zhang , Jingjing Wang , Feng Luo

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Over the past years, image generation and manipulation have achieved remarkable progress due to the rapid development of generative AI based on deep learning. Recent studies have devoted significant efforts to address the problem of face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi