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As the misuse of AI-generated images grows, generalizable image detection techniques are urgently needed. Recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods adopt aligned training datasets to reduce content, size, and format biases, empowering models…

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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

In this paper we propose a novel augmentation technique that improves not only the performance of deep neural networks on clean test data, but also significantly increases their robustness to random transformations, both affine and…

Previous literature suggests that perceptual similarity is an emergent property shared across deep visual representations. Experiments conducted on a dataset of human-judged image distortions have proven that deep features outperform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Simone Bianco , Luigi Celona , Paolo Napoletano

Diffusion models are known for generating high-quality images, causing serious security concerns. To combat this, most efforts rely on deep neural networks (e.g., CNNs and Transformers), while largely overlooking the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mengxin Fu , Yuezun Li

Neural networks are prone to catastrophic forgetting when trained incrementally on different tasks. Popular incremental learning methods mitigate such forgetting by retaining a subset of previously seen samples and replaying them during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Kevin Thandiackal , Tiziano Portenier , Andrea Giovannini , Maria Gabrani , Orcun Goksel

Utilization of classification latent space information for downstream reconstruction and generation is an intriguing and a relatively unexplored area. In general, discriminative representations are rich in class-specific features but are…

Many traditional computer vision algorithms generate realistic images by requiring that each patch in the generated image be similar to a patch in a training image and vice versa. Recently, this classical approach has been replaced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ariel Elnekave , Yair Weiss

The advent of deep learning has brought a significant improvement in the quality of generated media. However, with the increased level of photorealism, synthetic media are becoming hardly distinguishable from real ones, raising serious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Diego Gragnaniello , Davide Cozzolino , Francesco Marra , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

Likelihood-based, or explicit, deep generative models use neural networks to construct flexible high-dimensional densities. This formulation directly contradicts the manifold hypothesis, which states that observed data lies on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-30 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Brendan Leigh Ross , Jesse C. Cresswell , Anthony L. Caterini

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision area with many real-world applications. Given a wide range of images belonging to the normal class, emerging from some distribution, the objective of this task is to construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chengwei Chen , Pan Chen , Haichuan Song , Yiqing Tao , Yuan Xie , Shouhong Ding , Lizhuang Ma

Recent generative models can produce images that appear highly realistic, raising challenges in distinguishing real and AI-generated images. Yet existing detectors based on pre-trained feature extractors tend to over-rely on global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Boxuan Zhang , Jianing Zhu , Qifan Wang , Jiang Liu , Ruixiang Tang

A machine learning model, under the influence of observed or unobserved confounders in the training data, can learn spurious correlations and fail to generalize when deployed. For image classifiers, augmenting a training dataset using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy , Saloni Dash , Amit Sharma , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

To detect GAN generated images, conventional supervised machine learning algorithms require collection of a number of real and fake images from the targeted GAN model. However, the specific model used by the attacker is often unavailable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Xu Zhang , Svebor Karaman , Shih-Fu Chang

In recent years, deep neural network approaches have been widely adopted for machine learning tasks, including classification. However, they were shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations: carefully crafted small perturbations can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Pouya Samangouei , Maya Kabkab , Rama Chellappa

Recently, the growing capabilities of deep generative models have underscored their potential in enhancing image classification accuracy. However, existing methods often demand the generation of a disproportionately large number of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Tao Huang , Jiaqi Liu , Shan You , Chang Xu

Natural images may lie on a union of disjoint manifolds rather than one globally connected manifold, and this can cause several difficulties for the training of common Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this work, we first show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Ahmed Elgammal , Maneesh Singh

In recent years, deep neural networks have been utilized in a wide variety of applications including image generation. In particular, generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to produce highly realistic pictures as part of tasks such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Hyunsuk Ko , Dae Yeol Lee , Seunghyun Cho , Alan C. Bovik

With generative models proliferating at a rapid rate, there is a growing need for general purpose fake image detectors. In this work, we first show that the existing paradigm, which consists of training a deep network for real-vs-fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Utkarsh Ojha , Yuheng Li , Yong Jae Lee

Training supervised deep neural networks that perform defect detection and segmentation requires large-scale fully-annotated datasets, which can be hard or even impossible to obtain in industrial environments. Generative AI offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Gabriele Valvano , Antonino Agostino , Giovanni De Magistris , Antonino Graziano , Giacomo Veneri