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The ultimate goal of generative models is to perfectly capture the data distribution. For image generation, common metrics of visual quality (e.g., FID) and the perceived truthfulness of generated images seem to suggest that we are nearing…

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An important milestone for AI is the development of algorithms that can produce drawings that are indistinguishable from those of humans. Here, we adapt the 'diversity vs. recognizability' scoring framework from Boutin et al, 2022 and find…

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The misuse of generative AI in online disinformation campaigns highlights the urgent need for transparent and explainable detection systems. In this work, we investigate how detectors for AI-generated images can be more effective in…

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The rapid advancement of generative models has significantly enhanced the quality of AI-generated images, raising concerns about misinformation and the erosion of public trust. Detecting AI-generated images has thus become a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yakun Niu , Yingjian Chen , Lei Zhang

The recent computer graphics developments have upraised the quality of the generated digital content, astonishing the most skeptical viewer. Games and movies have taken advantage of this fact but, at the same time, these advances have…

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Current developments in computer vision and deep learning allow to automatically generate hyper-realistic images, hardly distinguishable from real ones. In particular, human face generation achieved a stunning level of realism, opening new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Francesco Marra , Cristiano Saltori , Giulia Boato , Luisa Verdoliva

The rapid proliferation of highly realistic AI-generated images poses serious security threats such as misinformation and identity fraud. Detecting generated images in open-world settings is particularly challenging when they originate from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Li Wang , Wenyu Chen , Xiangtao Meng , Zheng Li , Shanqing Guo

The evolution of Diffusion Models has dramatically improved image generation quality, making it increasingly difficult to differentiate between real and generated images. This development, while impressive, also raises significant privacy…

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Recent works have established that AI models introduce spectral artifacts into generated images and propose approaches for learning to capture them using labeled data. However, the significant differences in such artifacts among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Dimitrios Karageorgiou , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Efstratios Gavves

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image synthesis, but the generated high-quality images raise concerns about potential malicious use. Existing detectors often struggle to capture discriminative clues across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daichi Zhang , Tong Zhang , Shiming Ge , Sabine Süsstrunk

As AI-powered image generation improves, a key question is how well human beings can differentiate between "real" and AI-generated or modified images. Using data collected from the online game "Real or Not Quiz.", this study investigates…

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Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

Due to the high potential for abuse of GenAI systems, the task of detecting synthetic images has recently become of great interest to the research community. Unfortunately, existing image-space detectors quickly become obsolete as new…

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Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled the creation of deceptively real images, posing significant security risks when misused. In this study, we empirically show that different timesteps of DDIM inversion reveal varying subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yixin Wu , Feiran Zhang , Tianyuan Shi , Ruicheng Yin , Zhenghua Wang , Zhenliang Gan , Xiaohua Wang , Changze Lv , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

In this study, we show that diffusion models can be used in industrial scenarios to improve the data augmentation procedure in the context of surface defect detection. In general, defect detection classifiers are trained on ground-truth…

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With the rapid advancement of AI generative models, the visual quality of AI-generated images (AIIs) has become increasingly close to natural images, which inevitably raises security concerns. Most AII detectors often employ the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhipeng Yuan , Kai Wang , Weize Quan , Dong-Ming Yan , Tieru Wu

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

Despite diffusion models' superior capabilities in modeling complex distributions, there are still non-trivial distributional discrepancies between generated and ground-truth images, which has resulted in several notable problems in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yujian Liu , Yang Zhang , Tommi Jaakkola , Shiyu Chang

Despite an impressive performance from the latest GAN for generating hyper-realistic images, GAN discriminators have difficulty evaluating the quality of an individual generated sample. This is because the task of evaluating the quality of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Xiru Zhu , Fengdi Che , Tianzi Yang , Tzuyang Yu , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

Modern text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models can generate images with remarkable realism and creativity. These advancements have sparked research in fake image detection and attribution, yet prior studies have not fully explored the…

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