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Progress in image generation raises significant public security concerns. We argue that fake image detection should not operate as a "black box". Instead, an ideal approach must ensure both strong generalization and transparency. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yikun Ji , Yan Hong , Jiahui Zhan , Haoxing Chen , jun lan , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Liqing Zhang , Jianfu Zhang

The rapid advancement of image generation technologies intensifies the demand for interpretable and robust detection methods. Although existing approaches often attain high accuracy, they typically operate as black boxes without providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yikun Ji , Hong Yan , Jun Lan , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Qi Fan , Liqing Zhang , Jianfu Zhang

Accurate and interpretable detection of AI-generated images is essential for mitigating risks associated with AI misuse. However, the substantial domain gap among generative models makes it challenging to develop a generalizable forgery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yueying Gao , Dongliang Chang , Bingyao Yu , Haotian Qin , Muxi Diao , Lei Chen , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

Detecting AI-generated images with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has gained increasing attention, due to their rich world knowledge, common-sense reasoning, and potential for explainability. However, naively applying those MLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Kaiqing Lin , Zhiyuan Yan , Ruoxin Chen , Junyan Ye , Ke-Yue Zhang , Yue Zhou , Peng Jin , Bin Li , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding

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

Advances in generative models have led to AI-generated images visually indistinguishable from authentic ones. Despite numerous studies on detecting AI-generated images with classifiers, a gap persists between such methods and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chuangchuang Tan , Jinglu Wang , Xiang Ming , Renshuai Tao , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao , Yan Lu

The ability to distinguish whether an image is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial ingredient in human intelligence, usually accompanied by a complex and dialectical forensic and reasoning process. However, current fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yixuan Li , Xuelin Liu , Xiaoyang Wang , Bu Sung Lee , Shiqi Wang , Anderson Rocha , Weisi Lin

The extraordinary ability of generative models enabled the generation of images with such high quality that human beings cannot distinguish Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated images from real-life photographs. The development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yan Hong , Jianfu Zhang

The growing realism of AI-generated images produced by recent GAN and diffusion models has intensified concerns over the reliability of visual media. Yet, despite notable progress in deepfake detection, current forensic systems degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Anshul Bagaria

The proliferation of synthetic images generated by advanced AI models poses significant challenges in identifying and understanding manipulated visual content. Current fake image detection methods predominantly rely on binary classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Ritabrata Chakraborty , Rajatsubhra Chakraborty , Ali Khaleghi Rahimian , Thomas MacDougall

The misuse of generative AI in online disinformation campaigns highlights the urgent need for transparent and explainable detection systems. In this work, we investigate how detectors for AI-generated images can be more effective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Silvia Poletti , Justin Ilyes , Marcel Hasenbalg , David Fischinger , Martin Boyer

Conventional, classification-based AI-generated image detection methods cannot explain why an image is considered real or AI-generated in a way a human expert would, which reduces the trustworthiness and persuasiveness of these detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Michael Yang , Shijian Deng , William T. Doan , Kai Wang , Tianyu Yang , Harsh Singh , Yapeng Tian

The image deepfake detection task has been greatly addressed by the scientific community to discriminate real images from those generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) models: a binary classification task. In this work, the deepfake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Luca Guarnera , Oliver Giudice , Sebastiano Battiato

The rapid progress of visual generative models has made AI-generated images increasingly difficult to distinguish from authentic ones, posing growing risks to social trust and information integrity. This motivates detectors that are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Huangsen Cao , Qin Mei , Zhiheng Li , Yuxi Li , Zhan Meng , Ying Zhang , Chen Li , Zhimeng Zhang , Xin Ding , Yongwei Wang , Jing Lyu , Fei Wu

New advancements for the detection of synthetic images are critical for fighting disinformation, as the capabilities of generative AI models continuously evolve and can lead to hyper-realistic synthetic imagery at unprecedented scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Pantelis Dogoulis , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) techniques has enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic content, but it also raises significant security concerns. Current detection methods face two major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Changjiang Jiang , Wenhui Dong , Zhonghao Zhang , Fengchang Yu , Wei Peng , Xinbin Yuan , Yifei Bi , Ming Zhao , Zian Zhou , Chenyang Si , Caifeng Shan

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

The proliferation of generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Diffusion Models, and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), has enabled the synthesis of high-quality multimedia data. However, these advancements have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Arpan Mahara , Naphtali Rishe

The malicious use and widespread dissemination of AI-generated images pose a serious threat to the authenticity of digital content. Existing detection methods exploit low-level artifacts left by common manipulation steps within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Fei Wu , Guanghao Ding , Zijian Niu , Zhenrui Wang , Lei Yang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Shilin Wang

We present Thinking with Generated Images, a novel paradigm that fundamentally transforms how large multimodal models (LMMs) engage with visual reasoning by enabling them to natively think across text and vision modalities through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ethan Chern , Zhulin Hu , Steffi Chern , Siqi Kou , Jiadi Su , Yan Ma , Zhijie Deng , Pengfei Liu
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