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The proliferation of generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Diffusion Models, and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), has enabled the synthesis of high-quality multimedia data. However, these advancements have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Arpan Mahara , Naphtali Rishe

JPEG is arguably the most popular image coding format, achieving high compression ratios via lossy quantization that may create visual artifacts degradation. Numerous attempts to remove these artifacts were conceived over the years, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Sean Man , Guy Ohayon , Theo Adrai , Michael Elad

The assessment of face image quality is crucial to ensure reliable face recognition. In order to provide data subjects and operators with explainable and actionable feedback regarding captured face images, relevant quality components have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Laurin Jonientz , Johannes Merkle , Christian Rathgeb , Benjamin Tams , Georg Merz

The JPEG image compression algorithm is the most popular method of image compression because of its ability for large compression ratios. However, to achieve such high compression, information is lost. For aggressive quantization settings,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Max Ehrlich , Larry Davis , Ser-Nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled the creation of highly realistic, fully AI-generated images without relying on real source content. While beneficial for many applications, these models also pose significant societal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Qijie Xu , Can Wang , Jiawei Chen , Siwei Lyu , Defang Chen

Advances in image compression, storage, and display technologies have made high-quality images and videos widely accessible. At this level of quality, distinguishing between compressed and original content becomes difficult, highlighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Michela Testolina , Mohsen Jenadeleh , Shima Mohammadi , Shaolin Su , Joao Ascenso , Touradj Ebrahimi , Jon Sneyers , Dietmar Saupe

Successful forensic detectors can produce excellent results in supervised learning benchmarks but struggle to transfer to real-world applications. We believe this limitation is largely due to inadequate training data quality. While most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Fabrizio Guillaro , Giada Zingarini , Ben Usman , Avneesh Sud , Davide Cozzolino , Luisa Verdoliva

The rapid advancement of generative AI has revolutionized image creation, enabling high-quality synthesis from text prompts while raising critical challenges for media authenticity. We present Ai-GenBench, a novel benchmark designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Lorenzo Pellegrini , Davide Cozzolino , Serafino Pandolfini , Davide Maltoni , Matteo Ferrara , Luisa Verdoliva , Marco Prati , Marco Ramilli

The research on neural network (NN) based image compression has shown superior performance compared to classical compression frameworks. Unlike the hand-engineered transforms in the classical frameworks, NN-based models learn the non-linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Panqi Jia , A. Burakhan Koyuncu , Jue Mao , Ze Cui , Yi Ma , Tiansheng Guo , Timofey Solovyev , Alexander Karabutov , Yin Zhao , Jing Wang , Elena Alshina , Andre Kaup

Recently developed text-to-image diffusion models make it easy to edit or create high-quality images. Their ease of use has raised concerns about the potential for malicious editing or deepfake creation. Imperceptible perturbations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Pedro Sandoval-Segura , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Modern multimodal generators can now produce scientific figures at near-publishable quality, creating a new challenge for visual forensics and research integrity. Unlike conventional AI-generated natural images, scientific figures are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 You Hu , Chenzhuo Zhao , Changfa Mo , Haotian Liu , Xiaobai Li

In the field of digital image processing, JPEG image compression technique has been widely applied. And numerous image processing software suppose this. It is likely for the images undergoing double JPEG compression to be tampered.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Pengpeng Yang , Rongrong Ni , Yao Zhao

Image forensics research has recently witnessed a lot of advancements towards developing computational models capable of accurately detecting natural images captured by cameras and GAN generated images. However, it is also important to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Manjary P. Gangan , Anoop Kadan , Lajish V L

Recently the GAN generated face images are more and more realistic with high-quality, even hard for human eyes to detect. On the other hand, the forensics community keeps on developing methods to detect these generated fake images and try…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Xinsheng Xuan , Bo Peng , Wei Wang , Jing Dong

With the proliferation of deep learning methods, many computer vision problems which were considered academic are now viable in the consumer setting. One drawback of consumer applications is lossy compression, which is necessary from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Max Ehrlich , Larry Davis , Ser-Nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

The rapid evolution of AI-generated images poses growing challenges to information integrity and media authenticity. Existing detection approaches face limitations in robustness, interpretability, and generalization across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Mengfei Liang , Yiting Qu , Yukun Jiang , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Nowadays, many tools are used to facilitate forensic tasks about data extraction and data analysis. In particular, some tools leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automatically label examined data into specific categories (\ie, drugs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Silvia Lucia Sanna , Leonardo Regano , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Giacinto

The rapid advancement of generative AI has enabled the mass production of photorealistic synthetic images, blurring the boundary between authentic and fabricated visual content. This challenge is particularly evident in deepfake scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Minsun Jeon , Simon S. Woo

By applying artificial intelligence to image editing technology, it has become possible to generate high-quality images with minimal traces of manipulation. However, since these technologies can be misused for criminal activities such as…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Jiwon Lee , Seungjae Jeon , Yunji Park , Jaehyun Chung , Doowon Jeong

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