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Generative models can now produce photorealistic synthetic data which is virtually indistinguishable from the real data used to train it. This is a significant evolution over previous models which could produce reasonable facsimiles of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Debargha Ganguly , Warren Morningstar , Andrew Yu , Vipin Chaudhary

The growing presence of AI-generated videos on social networks poses new challenges for deepfake detection, as detectors trained under controlled conditions often fail to generalize to real-world scenarios. A key factor behind this gap is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Andrea Montibeller , Dasara Shullani , Daniele Baracchi , Alessandro Piva , Giulia Boato

As generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances, the realism of AI generated imagery has reached a threshold capable of deceiving even vigilant human observers. Yet, while current AI-generated Image Detection (AID) approaches perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Despina Konstantinidou , Dimitrios Karageorgiou , Christos Koutlis , Olga Papadopoulou , Emmanouil Schinas , Symeon Papadopoulos

As social media continues to grow rapidly, the prevalence of harassment on these platforms has also increased. This has piqued the interest of researchers in the field of fake detection. Social media data, often forms complex graphs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jinus Bordbar , Saman Ardalan , Mohammadreza Mohammadrezaie , Zahra Ghasemi

This research addresses a critical challenge in the field of generative models, particularly in the generation and evaluation of synthetic images. Given the inherent complexity of generative models and the absence of a standardized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Majid Memari , Khaled R. Ahmed , Shahram Rahimi , Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz

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

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

The rapid advancement of AI generated content (AIGC) has blurred the boundaries between real and synthetic images, exposing the limitations of existing deepfake detectors that often overfit to specific generative models. This adaptability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mei Qiu , Jianqiang Zhao , Yanyun Qu

With the rapid development of generative models, discerning AI-generated content has evoked increasing attention from both industry and academia. In this paper, we conduct a sanity check on "whether the task of AI-generated image detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shilin Yan , Ouxiang Li , Jiayin Cai , Yanbin Hao , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated content, driven by advances in generative adversarial networks, diffusion models, and multimodal large language models, has made the creation and dissemination of synthetic media effortless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Guangyu Lin , Li Lin , Christina P. Walker , Daniel S. Schiff , Shu Hu

With the recent advancements in generative modeling, the realism of deepfake content has been increasing at a steady pace, even reaching the point where people often fail to detect manipulated media content online, thus being deceived into…

Facial forgery methods such as deepfakes can be misused for identity manipulation and spreading misinformation. They have evolved alongside advancements in generative AI, leading to new and more sophisticated forgery techniques that diverge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Nadarasar Bahavan , Sachith Seneviratne , Sanjay Saha , Ken Chen , Sanka Rasnayaka , Saman Halgamuge

Image forgery is a topic that has been studied for many years. Before the breakthrough of deep learning, forged images were detected using handcrafted features that did not require training. These traditional methods failed to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Eren Tahir , Mert Bal

Following the recent initiatives for the democratization of AI, deep fake generators have become increasingly popular and accessible, causing dystopian scenarios towards social erosion of trust. A particular domain, such as biological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ilke Demir , Umur A. Ciftci

The creation of altered and manipulated faces has become more common due to the improvement of DeepFake generation methods. Simultaneously, we have seen detection models' development for differentiating between a manipulated and original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Sowmen Das , Selim Seferbekov , Arup Datta , Md. Saiful Islam , Md. Ruhul Amin

The ability of image and video generation models to create photorealistic images has reached unprecedented heights, making it difficult to distinguish between real and fake images in many cases. However, despite this progress, a gap remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ali Borji

Artificial intelligence (AI) in media has advanced rapidly over the last decade. The introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) improved the quality of photorealistic image generation. Diffusion models later brought a new era of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Redwan Hussain , Mizanur Rahman , Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee

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 advent of deep learning has brought a significant improvement in the quality of generated media. However, with the increased level of photorealism, synthetic media are becoming hardly distinguishable from real ones, raising serious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Diego Gragnaniello , Davide Cozzolino , Francesco Marra , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

The rapid advances in deep generative models over the past years have led to highly {realistic media, known as deepfakes,} that are commonly indistinguishable from real to human eyes. These advances make assessing the authenticity of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yang He , Ning Yu , Margret Keuper , Mario Fritz