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In the wake of a fabricated explosion image at the Pentagon, an ability to discern real images from fake counterparts has never been more critical. Our study introduces a novel multi-modal approach to detect AI-generated images amidst the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Inzamamul Alam , Muhammad Shahid Muneer , Simon S. Woo

The rapid advancement of generative models has introduced serious risks, including deepfake techniques for facial synthesis and editing. Traditional approaches rely on training classifiers and enhancing generalizability through various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Chung-Ting Tsai , Ching-Yun Ko , I-Hsin Chung , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Pin-Yu Chen

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

The rapid advancement of generative models has led to a growing prevalence of highly realistic AI-generated images, posing significant challenges for digital forensics and content authentication. Conventional detection methods mainly rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Dabbrata Das , Mahshar Yahan , Md Tareq Zaman , Md Rishadul Bayesh

Recent works have established that AI models introduce spectral artifacts into generated images and propose approaches for learning to capture them using labeled data. However, the significant differences in such artifacts among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Dimitrios Karageorgiou , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Efstratios Gavves

While specialized detectors for AI-Generated Images (AIGI) achieve near-perfect accuracy on curated benchmarks, they suffer from a dramatic performance collapse in realistic, in-the-wild scenarios. In this work, we demonstrate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yue Zhou , Xinan He , Kaiqing Lin , Bing Fan , Feng Ding , Bin Li

In just a few years, the photo-realism of images synthesized by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has gone from somewhat reasonable to almost perfect largely by increasing the complexity of the networks, e.g., adding layers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jeffrey Wen , Fabian Benitez-Quiroz , Qianli Feng , Aleix Martinez

The generation of high-quality images has become widely accessible and is a rapidly evolving process. As a result, anyone can generate images that are indistinguishable from real ones. This leads to a wide range of applications, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Sergey Sinitsa , Ohad Fried

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

With the rapid advancement of AIGC technologies, image forensics will encounter unprecedented challenges. Traditional methods are incapable of dealing with increasingly realistic images generated by rapidly evolving image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hongsong Wang , Renxi Cheng , Chaolei Han , Jie Gui

AI-generated images (AIGIs), such as natural or face images, have become increasingly important yet challenging. In this paper, we start from a new perspective to excavate the reason behind the failure generalization in AIGI detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zhiyuan Yan , Jiangming Wang , Peng Jin , Ke-Yue Zhang , Chengchun Liu , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Baoyuan Wu , Li Yuan

In this paper, we introduce RAVID, the first framework for AI-generated image detection that leverages visual retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). While RAG methods have shown promise in mitigating factual inaccuracies in foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Mamadou Keita , Wassim Hamidouche , Hessen Bougueffa Eutamene , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed , Abdenour Hadid

The high-quality, realistic images generated by generative models pose significant challenges for exposing them.So far, data-driven deep neural networks have been justified as the most efficient forensics tools for the challenges. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Feng Ding , Jun Zhang , Xinan He , Jianfeng Xu

The recent proliferation of photorealistic images created by generative models has sparked both excitement and concern, as these images are increasingly indistinguishable from real ones to the human eye. While offering new creative and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Haoyue Bai , Yiyou Sun , Wei Cheng , Haifeng Chen

Existing state-of-the-art AI-Generated image detection methods mostly consider extracting low-level information from RGB images to help improve the generalization of AI-Generated image detection, such as noise patterns. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ziyin Zhou , Ke Sun , Zhongxi Chen , Xianming Lin , Yunpeng Luo , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding , Xiaoshuai Sun

With the widespread application of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology in fields such as autonomous driving, robot navigation, and terrain mapping, the importance of edge detection in LiDAR images has become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Haowei Yang , Liyang Wang , Jingyu Zhang , Yu Cheng , Ao Xiang

The generative AI technology offers an increasing variety of tools for generating entirely synthetic images that are increasingly indistinguishable from real ones. Unlike methods that alter portions of an image, the creation of completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Manos Schinas , Symeon Papadopoulos

The rapid progression of generative AI (GenAI) technologies has heightened concerns regarding the misuse of AI-generated imagery. To address this issue, robust detection methods have emerged as particularly compelling, especially in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Hongfei Cai , Chi Liu , Sheng Shen , Youyang Qu , Peng Gui

The spreading of AI-generated images (AIGI), driven by advances in generative AI, poses a significant threat to information security and public trust. Existing AIGI detectors, while effective against images in clean laboratory settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Cheng Xia , Manxi Lin , Jiexiang Tan , Xiaoxiong Du , Yang Qiu , Junjun Zheng , Xiangheng Kong , Yuning Jiang , Bo Zheng

The rapid advancement of Large AI Models (LAIMs), particularly diffusion models and large language models, has marked a new era where AI-generated multimedia is increasingly integrated into various aspects of daily life. Although beneficial…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Li Lin , Neeraj Gupta , Yue Zhang , Hainan Ren , Chun-Hao Liu , Feng Ding , Xin Wang , Xin Li , Luisa Verdoliva , Shu Hu