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As AI-generated image (AIGI) methods become more powerful and accessible, it has become a critical task to determine if an image is real or AI-generated. Because AIGI lack the signatures of photographs and have their own unique patterns,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 A. G. Moskowitz , T. Gaona , J. Peterson

The rapid proliferation of AI-Generated Images (AIGIs) has introduced severe risks of misinformation, making AIGI detection a critical yet challenging task. While traditional detection paradigms mainly rely on low-level features, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chenyang Zhu , Maorong Wang , Jun Liu , Ching-Chun Chang , Isao Echizen

The pursuit of a universal AI-generated image (AIGI) detector often relies on aggregating data from numerous generators to improve generalization. However, this paper identifies a paradoxical phenomenon we term the Benefit then Conflict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ziheng Qin , Yuheng Ji , Renshuai Tao , Yuxuan Tian , Yuyang Liu , Yipu Wang , Xiaolong Zheng

The advent of accessible Generative AI tools enables anyone to create and spread synthetic images on social media, often with the intention to mislead, thus posing a significant threat to online information integrity. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Efthymia Amarantidou , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis

Distinguishing between real and AI-generated images, commonly referred to as 'image detection', presents a timely and significant challenge. Despite extensive research in the (semi-)supervised regime, zero-shot and few-shot solutions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jonathan Brokman , Amit Giloni , Omer Hofman , Roman Vainshtein , Hisashi Kojima , Guy Gilboa

As cyber threats continue to evolve, securing edge networks has become increasingly challenging due to their distributed nature and resource limitations. Many AI-driven threat detection systems rely on complex deep learning models, which,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Milad Rahmati

Robust detection of AI-generated images in the wild remains challenging due to the rapid evolution of generative models and varied real-world distortions. We argue that relying on a single training regime, resolution, or backbone is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Fei Wu , Dagong Lu , Mufeng Yao , Xinlei Xu , Fengjun Guo

A growing number of AI-generated texts raise serious concerns. Most existing approaches to AI-generated text detection rely on fine-tuning large transformer models or building ensembles, which are computationally expensive and often provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sergey K. Aityan , William Claster , Karthik Sai Emani , Sohni Rais , Thy Tran

One of the key challenges of detecting AI-generated images is spotting images that have been created by previously unseen generative models. We argue that the limited diversity of the training data is a major obstacle to addressing this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jeongsoo Park , Andrew Owens

The rise of AI-generated images (AIGIs) poses growing challenges for digital authenticity, prompting the need for efficient, generalizable image forgery detection systems. Existing methods, whether non-LLM-based or LLM-based, exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qing Huang , Zhipei Xu , Xuanyu Zhang , Xiangyu Yu , Jian Zhang

A truly universal AI-Generated Image (AIGI) detector must simultaneously generalize across diverse generative models and varied semantic content. Current methods learn a single, entangled forgery representation, conflating content-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuncheng Guo , Junyan Ye , Chenjue Zhang , Hengrui Kang , Haohuan Fu , Conghui He , Weijia Li

The rapid advancement of generative models in creating highly realistic images poses substantial risks for misinformation dissemination. For instance, a synthetic image, when shared on social media, can mislead extensive audiences and erode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhenglin Huang , Jinwei Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yiwei He , Xingyu Zhao , Bei Peng , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaowei Huang , Guangliang Cheng

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

The rapid progress of generative AI has led to the emergence of new generative models, while existing detection methods struggle to keep pace, resulting in significant degradation in the detection performance. This highlights the urgent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiajie Lu , Zhenkan Fu , Na Zhao , Long Xing , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Deep learning has bolstered gaze estimation techniques, but real-world deployment has been impeded by inadequate training datasets. This problem is exacerbated by both hardware-induced variations in eye images and inherent biological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sean Anthony Byrne , Virmarie Maquiling , Marcus Nyström , Enkelejda Kasneci , Diederick C. Niehorster

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have led to the creation of realistic-looking digital images that pose a major challenge to their detection by humans or computers. GANs are used in a wide range of tasks, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Michael Goebel , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy , Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

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

With the rapid evolution of AI Generated Content (AIGC), forged images produced through this technology are inherently more deceptive and require less human intervention compared to traditional Computer-generated Graphics (CG). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Ziyi Xi , Wenmin Huang , Kangkang Wei , Weiqi Luo , Peijia Zheng

With the rapid development of deep generative models (such as Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion models), AI-synthesized images are now of such high quality that humans can hardly distinguish them from pristine ones. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yan Ju , Shan Jia , Jialing Cai , Haiying Guan , Siwei Lyu

Dramatic advances in the quality of the latent diffusion models (LDMs) also led to the malicious use of AI-generated images. While current AI-generated image detection methods assume the availability of real/AI-generated images for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sungik Choi , Hankook Lee , Jaehoon Lee , Seunghyun Kim , Stanley Jungkyu Choi , Moontae Lee