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Rapid pace of generative models has brought about new threats to visual forensics such as malicious personation and digital copyright infringement, which promotes works on fake image attribution. Existing works on fake image attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Tianyun Yang , Juan Cao , Qiang Sheng , Lei Li , Jiaqi Ji , Xirong Li , Sheng Tang

Generative A.I. models have emerged as versatile tools across diverse industries, with applications in privacy-preserving data sharing, computational art, personalization of products and services, and immersive entertainment. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jordan W. Suchow , Necdet Gürkan

Generative models can be trained to emulate complex empirical data, but are they useful to make predictions in the context of previously unobserved environments? An intuitive idea to promote such extrapolation capabilities is to have the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Michel Besserve , Rémy Sun , Dominik Janzing , Bernhard Schölkopf

Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have enabled generative models to produce synthetic scientific images that are indistinguishable from pristine ones, posing a challenge even for expert scientists habituated to working with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 João Phillipe Cardenuto , Sara Mandelli , Daniel Moreira , Paolo Bestagini , Edward Delp , Anderson Rocha

Generative AI systems increasingly expose powerful reasoning and image refinement capabilities through user-facing chatbot interfaces. In this work, we show that the na\"ive exposure of such capabilities fundamentally undermines modern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Sunpill Kim , Chanwoo Hwang , Minsu Kim , Jae Hong Seo

In today's age of social media and marketing, copyright issues can be a major roadblock to the free sharing of images. Generative AI models have made it possible to create high-quality images, but concerns about copyright infringement are a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mazharul Islam Rakib , Showrin Rahman , Joyanta Jyoti Mondal , Xi Xiao , David Lewis , Alessandra Mileo , Meem Arafat Manab

Semantic communications mark a paradigm shift from bit-accurate transmission toward meaning-centric communication, essential as wireless systems approach theoretical capacity limits. The emergence of generative AI has catalyzed generative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Hai-Long Qin , Jincheng Dai , Guo Lu , Shuo Shao , Sixian Wang , Tongda Xu , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Modeling lies at the core of both the financial and the insurance industry for a wide variety of tasks. The rise and development of machine learning and deep learning models have created many opportunities to improve our modeling toolbox.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yves-Cédric Bauwelinckx , Jan Dhaene , Tim Verdonck , Milan van den Heuvel

AI-generated images have become increasingly realistic and have garnered significant public attention. While synthetic images are intriguing due to their realism, they also pose an important misinformation threat. To address this new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Shengbang Fang , Tai D. Nguyen , Matthew C. Stamm

With the rapid progress of generation technology, it has become necessary to attribute the origin of fake images. Existing works on fake image attribution perform multi-class classification on several Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Tianyun Yang , Ziyao Huang , Juan Cao , Lei Li , Xirong Li

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular generative models, are transformative tools for knowledge work. They problematise notions of creativity, originality, plagiarism, the attribution of credit, and copyright ownership. Critics of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Advait Sarkar

Synthesis of digital artifacts conditioned on user prompts has become an important paradigm facilitating an explosion of use cases with generative AI. However, such models often fail to connect the generated outputs and desired target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Melvin Wong , Yew-Soon Ong , Abhishek Gupta , Kavitesh K. Bali , Caishun Chen

Causal reasoning is the main learning and explanation tool used by humans. AI systems should possess causal reasoning capabilities to be deployed in the real world with trust and reliability. Introducing the ideas of causality to machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy

As generative techniques become increasingly accessible, authentic visuals are frequently subjected to iterative alterations by various individuals employing a variety of tools. Currently, to avoid misinformation and ensure accountability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhiya Tan , Xin Zhang , Joey Tianyi Zhou

The rapid advancement of photorealistic generative models has made it increasingly important to attribute the origin of synthetic content, moving beyond binary real or fake detection toward identifying the specific model that produced a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Ellie Thieu , Jifan Zhang , Haoyue Bai

From self-supervised, vision-only models to contrastive visual-language frameworks, computational pathology has rapidly evolved in recent years. Generative AI "co-pilots" now demonstrate the ability to mine subtle, sub-visual tissue cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Mohsin Bilal , Aadam , Manahil Raza , Youssef Altherwy , Anas Alsuhaibani , Abdulrahman Abduljabbar , Fahdah Almarshad , Paul Golding , Nasir Rajpoot

Causal representation learning aims to unveil latent high-level causal representations from observed low-level data. One of its primary tasks is to provide reliable assurance of identifying these latent causal models, known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yuhang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Dong Gong , Mingming Gong , Biwei Huang , Anton van den Hengel , Kun Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Watermarking the outputs of generative models is a crucial technique for tracing copyright and preventing potential harm from AI-generated content. In this paper, we introduce a novel technique called Tree-Ring Watermarking that robustly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yuxin Wen , John Kirchenbauer , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

The rapid evolution of generative technologies necessitates reliable methods for detecting AI-generated images. A critical limitation of current detectors is their failure to generalize to images from unseen generative models, as they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Chenming Zhou , Jiaan Wang , Yu Li , Lei Li , Juan Cao , Sheng Tang