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The rapid advancement of generative image models has transformed digital media to the point where AI generated images can no longer be reliably distinguished from authentic photographs by human observers or many conventional detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohd Ruhul Ameen , Akif Islam

Currently, high-fidelity text-to-image models are developed in an accelerating pace. Among them, Diffusion Models have led to a remarkable improvement in the quality of image generation, making it vary challenging to distinguish between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ziyue Zeng , Haoyuan Liu , Dingjie Peng , Luoxu Jing , Hiroshi Watanabe

The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has catalyzed a transformation in digital content generation, with profound implications for cyber influence operations. This report delves into the potential and limitations of generative deep…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Melanie Mathys , Marco Willi , Michael Graber , Raphael Meier

Generative models now produce images with such stunning realism that they can easily deceive the human eye. While this progress unlocks vast creative potential, it also presents significant risks, such as the spread of misinformation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yichi Zhang , Xiaogang Xu

Deepfake or synthetic images produced using deep generative models pose serious risks to online platforms. This has triggered several research efforts to accurately detect deepfake images, achieving excellent performance on publicly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sifat Muhammad Abdullah , Aravind Cheruvu , Shravya Kanchi , Taejoong Chung , Peng Gao , Murtuza Jadliwala , Bimal Viswanath

Data scarcity in medical imaging poses significant challenges due to privacy concerns. Diffusion models, a recent generative modeling technique, offer a potential solution by generating synthetic and realistic data. However, questions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Abdullah al Nomaan Nafi , Md. Alamgir Hossain , Rakib Hossain Rifat , Md Mahabub Uz Zaman , Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman

Diffusion models recently have been successfully applied for the visual synthesis of strikingly realistic appearing images. This raises strong concerns about their potential for malicious purposes. In this paper, we propose using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Peter Lorenz , Ricard Durall , Janis Keuper

We present Distributional RewArds for Generative OptimizatioN (DRAGON), a versatile framework for fine-tuning media generation models towards a desired outcome. Compared with traditional reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yatong Bai , Jonah Casebeer , Somayeh Sojoudi , Nicholas J. Bryan

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can substantially enhance the performance of LLMs on knowledge-intensive tasks. Various RAG paradigms - including vanilla, planning-based, and iterative RAG - all depend on a robust retriever, yet…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haiyang Shen , Hang Yan , Zhongshi Xing , Mugeng Liu , Yue Li , Zhiyang Chen , Yuxiang Wang , Jiuzheng Wang , Yun Ma

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

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 ability to automatically classify source code repositories with ''topics'' that reflect their content and purpose is very useful, especially when navigating or searching through large software collections. However, existing approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Stefano Balla , Stefano Zacchiroli , Thomas Degueule , Jean-Rémy Falleri , Romain Robbes

Modern diffusion-based image generative models have made significant progress and become promising to enrich training data for the object detection task. However, the generation quality and the controllability for complex scenes containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jingyuan Zhu , Shiyu Li , Yuxuan Liu , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan , Huimin Ma , Jian Yuan

Diffusion model-generated images can appear indistinguishable from authentic photographs, but these images often contain artifacts and implausibilities that reveal their AI-generated provenance. Given the challenge to public trust in media…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Negar Kamali , Karyn Nakamura , Aakriti Kumar , Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Jessica Hullman , Matthew Groh

With recent advancements in diffusion models, users can generate high-quality images by writing text prompts in natural language. However, generating images with desired details requires proper prompts, and it is often unclear how a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Zijie J. Wang , Evan Montoya , David Munechika , Haoyang Yang , Benjamin Hoover , Duen Horng Chau

Diffusion-based image synthesis has emerged as a promising source of synthetic training data for AI-based object detection and classification. In this work, we investigate whether images generated with diffusion can improve military vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ella P. Fokkinga , Jan Erik van Woerden , Thijs A. Eker , Sebastiaan P. Snel , Elfi I. S. Hofmeijer , Klamer Schutte , Friso G. Heslinga

We present a first of its kind dataset of overhead imagery for development and evaluation of forensic tools. Our dataset consists of real, fully synthetic and partially manipulated overhead imagery generated from a custom diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Brandon B. May , Kirill Trapeznikov , Shengbang Fang , Matthew C. Stamm

Generative models are becoming popular for the synthesis of medical images. Recently, neural diffusion models have demonstrated the potential to generate photo-realistic images of objects. However, their potential to generate medical images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Hazrat Ali , Shafaq Murad , Zubair Shah

Recent advances in synthetic imaging open up opportunities for obtaining additional data in the field of surgical imaging. This data can provide reliable supplements supporting surgical applications and decision-making through computer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Simeon Allmendinger , Patrick Hemmer , Moritz Queisner , Igor Sauer , Leopold Müller , Johannes Jakubik , Michael Vössing , Niklas Kühl

The remarkable progress in neural-network-driven visual data generation, especially with neural rendering techniques like Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian splatting, offers a powerful alternative to GANs and diffusion models. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chengdong Dong , Vijayakumar Bhagavatula , Zhenyu Zhou , Ajay Kumar