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Diffusion models have shown remarkable success in visual synthesis, but have also raised concerns about potential abuse for malicious purposes. In this paper, we seek to build a detector for telling apart real images from…

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The rapid advancement of diffusion models has significantly improved high-quality image generation, making generated content increasingly challenging to distinguish from real images and raising concerns about potential misuse. In this…

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The rapid advancement of generative image models has transformed digital media to the point where AI generated images can no longer be reliably distinguished from authentic photographs by human observers or many conventional detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohd Ruhul Ameen , Akif Islam

Advances in image generation enable hyper-realistic synthetic faces but also pose risks, thus making synthetic face detection crucial. Previous research focuses on the general differences between generated images and real images, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Qingchao Jiang , Zhishuo Xu , Zhiying Zhu , Ning Chen , Haoyue Wang , Zhongjie Ba

Diffusion model-generated images can appear indistinguishable from authentic photographs, but these images often contain artifacts and implausibilities that reveal their AI-generated provenance. Given the challenge to public trust in media…

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Generative models now produce images with such stunning realism that they can easily deceive the human eye. While this progress unlocks vast creative potential, it also presents significant risks, such as the spread of misinformation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yichi Zhang , Xiaogang Xu

The high level of photorealism in state-of-the-art diffusion models like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Firefly makes it difficult for untrained humans to distinguish between real photographs and AI-generated images. To address this…

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The remarkable realism of images generated by diffusion models poses critical detection challenges. Current methods utilize reconstruction error as a discriminative feature, exploiting the observation that real images exhibit higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jie Li , Yingying Feng , Chi Xie , Jie Hu , Lei Tan , Jiayi Ji

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 advent of generative AI images has completely disrupted the art world. Distinguishing AI generated images from human art is a challenging problem whose impact is growing over time. A failure to address this problem allows bad actors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Anna Yoo Jeong Ha , Josephine Passananti , Ronik Bhaskar , Shawn Shan , Reid Southen , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

The increasing realism of generated images has raised significant concerns about their potential misuse, necessitating robust detection methods. Current approaches mainly rely on training binary classifiers, which depend heavily on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yonggang Zhang , Jun Nie , Xinmei Tian , Mingming Gong , Kun Zhang , Bo Han

The extraordinary ability of generative models to generate photographic images has intensified concerns about the spread of disinformation, thereby leading to the demand for detectors capable of distinguishing between AI-generated fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Mingjian Zhu , Hanting Chen , Qiangyu Yan , Xudong Huang , Guanyu Lin , Wei Li , Zhijun Tu , Hailin Hu , Jie Hu , Yunhe Wang

The generation of high-quality images has become widely accessible and is a rapidly evolving process. As a result, anyone can generate images that are indistinguishable from real ones. This leads to a wide range of applications, including…

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As deep learning technology continues to evolve, the images yielded by generative models are becoming more and more realistic, triggering people to question the authenticity of images. Existing generated image detection methods detect…

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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

Recently, reconstruction-based methods have gained attention for AIGC image detection. These methods leverage pre-trained diffusion models to reconstruct inputs and measure residuals for distinguishing real from fake images. Their key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Qingyu Liu , Zhongjie Ba , Jianmin Guo , Qiu Wang , Zhibo Wang , Jie Shi , Kui Ren

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

The rapid progress of generative models, particularly diffusion models and GANs, has greatly increased the difficulty of distinguishing synthetic images from real ones. Although numerous detection methods have been proposed, their accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Shuman He , Xiehua Li , Xioaju Yang , Yang Xiong , Keqin Li

With advancements in AI-generated images coming on a continuous basis, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish traditionally-sourced images (e.g., photos, artwork) from AI-generated ones. Previous detection methods study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 David C. Epstein , Ishan Jain , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable photorealism, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish real images from generated ones, raising significant privacy and security concerns. In response, we present a key finding:…

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