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The ever-increasing use of synthetically generated content in different sectors of our everyday life, one for all media information, poses a strong need for deepfake detection tools in order to avoid the proliferation of altered messages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Andrea Ciamarra , Roberto Caldelli , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in split-DNN configurations--with visual encoders (e.g., ResNet, ViT) operating on user devices and sending intermediate features to the cloud--there is a growing privacy risk from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Kedong Xiu , Sai Qian Zhang

Watermarking is a crucial tool for safeguarding copyrights and can serve as a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to QR codes. In recent years, watermarking methods based on deep learning have proved superior robustness against complex…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Zhe Lei , Jie Zhang , Jingtao Li , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Existing methods for image synthesis utilized a style encoder based on stacks of convolutions and pooling layers to generate style codes from input images. However, the encoded vectors do not necessarily contain local information of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Jonghyun Kim , Gen Li , Cheolkon Jung , Joongkyu Kim

In this work, we introduce a novel deep learning-based approach to text-in-image watermarking, a method that embeds and extracts textual information within images to enhance data security and integrity. Leveraging the capabilities of deep…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Bishwa Karki , Chun-Hua Tsai , Pei-Chi Huang , Xin Zhong

We propose an unsupervised hashing method which aims to produce binary codes that preserve the ranking induced by a real-valued representation. Such compact hash codes enable the complete elimination of real-valued feature storage and allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Svebor Karaman , Xudong Lin , Xuefeng Hu , Shih-Fu Chang

Recent advances in generative AI have enabled the creation of highly realistic digital content, raising concerns around authenticity, ownership, and misuse. While watermarking has become an increasingly important mechanism to trace and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Maria Bulychev , Neil G. Marchant , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

The increasing realism of AI-generated images has raised serious concerns about misinformation and privacy violations, highlighting the urgent need for accurate and interpretable detection methods. While existing approaches have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tai-Ming Huang , Wei-Tung Lin , Kai-Lung Hua , Wen-Huang Cheng , Junichi Yamagishi , Jun-Cheng Chen

As neural networks become able to generate realistic artificial images, they have the potential to improve movies, music, video games and make the internet an even more creative and inspiring place. Yet, the latest technology potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Moritz Wolter , Felix Blanke , Raoul Heese , Jochen Garcke

Advanced deepfake technologies are blurring the lines between real and fake, presenting both revolutionary opportunities and alarming threats. While it unlocks novel applications in fields like entertainment and education, its malicious use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qihao Shen , Jiaxing Xuan , Zhenguang Liu , Sifan Wu , Yutong Xie , Zhaoyan Ming , Yingying Jiao , kui Ren

Image restoration involves recovering high-quality images from their corrupted versions, requiring a nuanced balance between spatial details and contextual information. While certain methods address this balance, they predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Hu Gao , Depeng Dang

With the goal of recovering high-quality image content from its degraded version, image restoration enjoys numerous applications, such as in surveillance, computational photography, medical imaging, and remote sensing. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

Deepfake technology has given rise to a spectrum of novel and compelling applications. Unfortunately, the widespread proliferation of high-fidelity fake videos has led to pervasive confusion and deception, shattering our faith that seeing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhongjie Ba , Qingyu Liu , Zhenguang Liu , Shuang Wu , Feng Lin , Li Lu , Kui Ren

Advanced manipulation techniques have provided criminals with opportunities to make social panic or gain illicit profits through the generation of deceptive media, such as forged face images. In response, various deepfake detection methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Ruiyang Xia , Decheng Liu , Jie Li , Lin Yuan , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Image restoration algorithms such as super resolution (SR) are indispensable pre-processing modules for object detection in degraded images. However, most of these algorithms assume the degradation is fixed and known a priori. When the real…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Ziteng Cui , Yingying Zhu , Lin Gu , Guo-Jun Qi , Xiaoxiao Li , Peng Gao , Zenghui Zhang , Tatsuya Harada

State-of-the-art deepfake detection approaches rely on image-based features extracted via neural networks. While these approaches trained in a supervised manner extract likely fake features, they may fall short in representing unnatural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yue Zhang , Ben Colman , Xiao Guo , Ali Shahriyari , Gaurav Bharaj

Watermarking is an operation of embedding an information into an image in a way that allows to identify ownership of the image despite applying some distortions on it. In this paper, we presented a novel end-to-end solution for embedding…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Marcin Plata , Piotr Syga

Watermarking is an important copyright protection technology which generally embeds the identity information into the carrier imperceptibly. Then the identity can be extracted to prove the copyright from the watermarked carrier even after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Sulong Ge , Zhihua Xia , Jianwei Fei , Xingming Sun , Jian Weng

Reconstructing perceived images from human brain activity monitored by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is hard, especially for natural images. Existing methods often result in blurry and unintelligible reconstructions with low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mali Halac , Murat Isik , Hasan Ayaz , Anup Das

Applications of deep learning to synthetic media generation allow the creation of convincing forgeries, called DeepFakes, with limited technical expertise. DeepFake detection is an increasingly active research area. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kevin Lutz , Robert Bassett