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GAN-generated image detection now becomes the first line of defense against the malicious uses of machine-synthesized image manipulations such as deepfakes. Although some existing detectors work well in detecting clean, known GAN samples,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Chi Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Sheng Shen , Wanlei Zhou

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 rapid development of generative AI facilitates content creation and makes image manipulation easier and more difficult to detect. While multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) have encoded rich world knowledge, they are not inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yiran He , Yun Cao , Bowen Yang , Zeyu Zhang

Deepfake detection is a widely researched topic that is crucial for combating the spread of malicious content, with existing methods mainly modeling the problem as classification or spatial localization. The rapid advancements in generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Wenbo Xu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo , Jiantao Zhou

A reliable method of quantifying the perceptual realness of AI-generated images and identifying visually inconsistent regions is crucial for practical use of AI-generated images and for improving photorealism of generative AI via realness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Lovish Kaushik , Agnij Biswas , Somdyuti Paul

The proliferation of sophisticated AI-generated deepfakes poses critical challenges for digital media authentication and societal security. While existing detection methods perform well within specific generative domains, they exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Naseem Khan , Tuan Nguyen , Amine Bermak , Issa Khalil

The rapid development of generative AI is a double-edged sword, which not only facilitates content creation but also makes image manipulation easier and more difficult to detect. Although current image forgery detection and localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhipei Xu , Xuanyu Zhang , Runyi Li , Zecheng Tang , Qing Huang , Jian Zhang

The rapid advancement of generative AI has raised concerns about the authenticity of digital images, as highly realistic fake images can now be generated at low cost, potentially increasing societal risks. In response, several datasets have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Hanzhe Yu , Yun Ye , Jintao Rong , Qi Xuan , Chen Ma

Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled the creation of highly realistic, fully AI-generated images without relying on real source content. While beneficial for many applications, these models also pose significant societal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Qijie Xu , Can Wang , Jiawei Chen , Siwei Lyu , Defang Chen

The rapid advances in generative AI models have empowered the creation of highly realistic images with arbitrary content, raising concerns about potential misuse and harm, such as Deepfakes. Current research focuses on training detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Zhiyuan He , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho

The rapid advancement of generative models has intensified the challenge of detecting and interpreting visual forgeries, necessitating robust frameworks for image forgery detection while providing reasoning as well as localization. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ipsita Praharaj , Yukta Butala , Badrikanath Praharaj , Yash Butala

With the rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), unified MLLMs that jointly perform image understanding and generation have advanced significantly. However, despite the inherent reasoning capabilities of unified MLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yongjin Kim , Yoonjin Oh , Yerin Kim , Hyomin Kim , Jeeyoung Yun , Yujung Heo , Minjun Kim , Sungwoong Kim

The rapid progress in deep generative models has led to the creation of incredibly realistic synthetic images that are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from real-world data. The widespread use of Variational Models, Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Anant Mehta , Bryant McArthur , Nagarjuna Kolloju , Zhengzhong Tu

The wide availability and low usability barrier of modern image generation models has triggered the reasonable fear of criminal misconduct and negative social implications. The machine learning community has been engaging this problem with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

As large language models (LLMs) generate text that increasingly resembles human writing, the subtle cues that distinguish AI-generated content from human-written content become increasingly challenging to capture. Reliance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Xiao Pu , Zepeng Cheng , Lin Yuan , Yu Wu , Xiuli Bi

Recent advances in generative models have highlighted the need for robust detectors capable of distinguishing real images from AI-generated images. While existing methods perform well on known generators, their performance often declines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kuo Shi , Jie Lu , Shanshan Ye , Guangquan Zhang , Zhen Fang

Over the past years, images generated by artificial intelligence have become more prevalent and more realistic. Their advent raises ethical questions relating to misinformation, artistic expression, and identity theft, among others. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jonathan Gallagher , William Pugsley

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

Successful forensic detectors can produce excellent results in supervised learning benchmarks but struggle to transfer to real-world applications. We believe this limitation is largely due to inadequate training data quality. While most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Fabrizio Guillaro , Giada Zingarini , Ben Usman , Avneesh Sud , Davide Cozzolino , Luisa Verdoliva

Amid the proliferation of forged images, notably the tsunami of deepfake content, extensive research has been conducted on using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify forged content in the face of continuing advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Shuhan Cui , Huy H. Nguyen , Trung-Nghia Le , Chun-Shien Lu , Isao Echizen