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The rapid progress of generative AI has enabled remarkable creative capabilities, yet it also raises urgent concerns regarding the safety of AI-generated visual content in real-world applications such as content moderation, platform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Qiang Fu , Zonglei Jing , Zonghao Ying , Xiaoqian Li

JPEG is one of the most commonly used standards among lossy image compression methods. However, JPEG compression inevitably introduces various kinds of artifacts, especially at high compression rates, which could greatly affect the Quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Xiaoshuai Zhang , Wenhan Yang , Yueyu Hu , Jiaying Liu

Synthetic video generation is progressing very rapidly. The latest models can produce very realistic high-resolution videos that are virtually indistinguishable from real ones. Although several video forensic detectors have been recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Ekta Prashnani , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva

Diffusion-based image synthesis has made AI-generated images (AIGI) increasingly photorealistic, raising urgent concerns about authenticity in applications such as misinformation detection, digital forensics, and content moderation. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zhipei Xu , Xuanyu Zhang , Youmin Xu , Qing Huang , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Jian Zhang

Digital Photo images are everywhere, on the covers of magazines, in newspapers, in courtrooms, and all over the Internet. We are exposed to them throughout the day and most of the time. Ease with which images can be manipulated; we need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-14 S. Murali , Govindraj B. Chittapur , Prabhakara H. S , Basavaraj S. Anami

The rapid advancement of generative AI has raised concerns about the authenticity of digital images, as highly realistic fake images can now be generated at low cost, potentially increasing societal risks. In response, several datasets have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Hanzhe Yu , Yun Ye , Jintao Rong , Qi Xuan , Chen Ma

The proliferation of sophisticated image editing tools and generative artificial intelligence models has made verifying the authenticity of digital images increasingly challenging, with important implications for journalism, forensic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Kaixiang Zhao , Tianrun Yu , Aoxu Zhang , Junhao Su , Porter Jenkins , Amanda Hughes

Generative AI models can produce high-quality images based on text prompts. The generated images often appear indistinguishable from images generated by conventional optical photography devices or created by human artists (i.e., real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuying Li , Zeyan Liu , Junyi Zhao , Liangqin Ren , Fengjun Li , Jiebo Luo , Bo Luo

The tremendous recent advances in generative artificial intelligence techniques have led to significant successes and promise in a wide range of different applications ranging from conversational agents and textual content generation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hossein Aboutalebi , Dayou Mao , Rongqi Fan , Carol Xu , Chris He , Alexander Wong

With advancements in AI-generated images coming on a continuous basis, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish traditionally-sourced images (e.g., photos, artwork) from AI-generated ones. Previous detection methods study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 David C. Epstein , Ishan Jain , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang

This paper examines the admissibility of AI-generated forensic evidence in criminal trials. The growing adoption of AI presents promising results for investigative efficiency. Despite advancements, significant research gaps persist in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sahibpreet Singh , Lalita Devi

The growing realism of AI-generated images produced by recent GAN and diffusion models has intensified concerns over the reliability of visual media. Yet, despite notable progress in deepfake detection, current forensic systems degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Anshul Bagaria

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

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 increasing realism of AI-Generated Images (AIGI) has created an urgent need for forensic tools capable of reliably distinguishing synthetic content from authentic imagery. Existing detectors are typically tailored to specific forgery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yangxin Yu , Yue Zhou , Bin Li , Kaiqing Lin , Haodong Li , Jiangqun Ni , Bo Cao

Recent studies have shown that neural network (NN) based image classifiers are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses a threat to security-sensitive image recognition task. Prior work has shown that JPEG compression can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Cheng Zhang , Pan Gao

Digital images and videos play a very important role in everyday life. Nowadays, people have access the affordable mobile devices equipped with advanced integrated cameras and powerful image processing applications. Technological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Edgar Gonzalez Fernandez , Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco , Luis Javier Garcia Villalba

The proliferation of AI-generated synthetic media poses a critical threat to the integrity of digital evidence in legal and forensic contexts. Existing deepfake detection systems typically address a single modality and provide no mechanism…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Naisha Minnah

JPEG is one of the most widely used image formats, but in some ways remains surprisingly unoptimized, perhaps because some natural optimizations would go outside the standard that defines JPEG. We show how to improve JPEG compression in a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Max Hopkins , Michael Mitzenmacher , Sebastian Wagner-Carena

As image tampering becomes ever more sophisticated and commonplace, the need for image forensics algorithms that can accurately and quickly detect forgeries grows. In this paper, we revisit the ideas of image querying and retrieval to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Joel Brogan , Paolo Bestagini , Aparna Bharati , Allan Pinto , Daniel Moreira , Kevin Bowyer , Patrick Flynn , Anderson Rocha , Walter Scheirer