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The emergence of advanced AI-based tools to generate realistic images poses significant challenges for forensic detection and source attribution, especially as new generative techniques appear rapidly. Traditional methods often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Tai D. Nguyen , Aref Azizpour , Matthew C. Stamm

While image forensics is concerned with whether an image has been tampered with, image anti-forensics attempts to prevent image forensics methods from detecting tampered images. The competition between these two fields started long before…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Eren Tahir , Mert Bal

In recent years, deep learning has greatly streamlined the process of manipulating photographic face images. Aware of the potential dangers, researchers have developed various tools to spot these counterfeits. Yet, none asks the fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mian Zou , Baosheng Yu , Yibing Zhan , Siwei Lyu , Kede Ma

Deepfake detection remains highly challenging, particularly in cross-dataset scenarios and complex real-world settings. This challenge mainly arises because artifact patterns vary substantially across different forgery methods, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiang Zhang , Wenliang Weng , Daoyong Fu , Beijing Chen , Ziqiang Li , Ziwen He , Zhangjie Fu

As deep image forgery powered by AI generative models, such as GANs, continues to challenge today's digital world, detecting AI-generated forgeries has become a vital security topic. Generalizability and robustness are two critical concerns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chi Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou , Wei Zhao

The rapid advancement of generative AI has enabled the mass production of photorealistic synthetic images, blurring the boundary between authentic and fabricated visual content. This challenge is particularly evident in deepfake scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Minsun Jeon , Simon S. Woo

The increasing availability of advanced image editing tools has led to a significant rise in manipulated digital content, posing serious challenges for digital forensics and information security. This study presents a transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Fatma Betul Buyuk , Gozde Karatas Baydogmus , Ali Buldu , Ayaulym Tulendiyeva , Zhuldyz Baizhumanova

As generative AI achieves hyper-realism, superficial artifact detection has become obsolete. While prevailing methods rely on resource-intensive fine-tuning of black-box backbones, we propose that forgery detection capability is already…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jingtong Dou , Chuancheng Shi , Yemin Wang , Shiming Guo , Anqi Yi , Wenhua Wu , Li Zhang , Fei Shen , Tat-Seng Chua

The rapid evolution of AI-generated images poses growing challenges to information integrity and media authenticity. Existing detection approaches face limitations in robustness, interpretability, and generalization across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Mengfei Liang , Yiting Qu , Yukun Jiang , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

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 advancement of generative AI in medical imaging has introduced both significant opportunities and serious challenges, especially the risk that fake medical images could undermine healthcare systems. These synthetic images pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Shuaibo Li , Zhaohu Xing , Hongqiu Wang , Pengfei Hao , Xingyu Li , Zekai Liu , Lei Zhu

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for image forgery detection and localization predominantly operate under a text-centric Chain-of-Thought (CoT) paradigm. However, forcing these models to textually characterize imperceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Youqi Wang , Shen Chen , Haowei Wang , Rongxuan Peng , Taiping Yao , Shunquan Tan , Changsheng Chen , Bin Li , Shouhong Ding

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

Image forgery detection aims to detect and locate forged regions in an image. Most existing forgery detection algorithms formulate classification problems to classify pixels into forged or pristine. However, the definition of forged and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haiwei Wu , Yiming Chen , Jiantao Zhou , Yuanman Li

Deepfake detection refers to detecting artificially generated or edited faces in images or videos, which plays an essential role in visual information security. Despite promising progress in recent years, Deepfake detection remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Chunlei Peng , Huiqing Guo , Decheng Liu , Nannan Wang , Ruimin Hu , Xinbo Gao

The rapid advancement in generative AI models has enabled the creation of photorealistic images. At the same time, there are growing concerns about the potential misuse and dangers of generated content, as well as a pressing need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zhenhan Huang , Pin-Yu Chen , Tejaswini Pedapati , Jianxi Gao

In this paper we propose a new framework for evaluating the performance of explanation methods on the decisions of a deepfake detector. This framework assesses the ability of an explanation method to spot the regions of a fake image with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Konstantinos Tsigos , Evlampios Apostolidis , Spyridon Baxevanakis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Vasileios Mezaris

The proliferation of deepfake imagery poses escalating challenges for practitioners tasked with verifying digital media authenticity. While detection algorithm research is abundant, empirical evaluations of publicly accessible tools that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Michael Rettinger , Ben Beaumont , Nhien-An Le-Khac , Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le

As ultra-realistic face forgery techniques emerge, deepfake detection has attracted increasing attention due to security concerns. Many detectors cannot achieve accurate results when detecting unseen manipulations despite excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Zihan Liu , Hanyi Wang , Shilin Wang

Detecting and grounding multi-modal media manipulation (DGM^4) has become increasingly crucial due to the widespread dissemination of face forgery and text misinformation. In this paper, we present the Unified Frequency-Assisted transFormer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Huan Liu , Zichang Tan , Qiang Chen , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao , Jingdong Wang