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The misuse of AI imagery can have harmful societal effects, prompting the creation of detectors to combat issues like the spread of fake news. Existing methods can effectively detect images generated by seen generators, but it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Mingjian Zhu , Hanting Chen , Mouxiao Huang , Wei Li , Hailin Hu , Jie Hu , Yunhe Wang

The rapid advancement of generative models has led to a growing prevalence of highly realistic AI-generated images, posing significant challenges for digital forensics and content authentication. Conventional detection methods mainly rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Dabbrata Das , Mahshar Yahan , Md Tareq Zaman , Md Rishadul Bayesh

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

The rapid advancement of GAN and Diffusion models makes it more difficult to distinguish AI-generated images from real ones. Recent studies often use image-based reconstruction errors as an important feature for determining whether an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hongsong Wang , Renxi Cheng , Yang Zhang , Chaolei Han , Jie Gui

In the wake of a fabricated explosion image at the Pentagon, an ability to discern real images from fake counterparts has never been more critical. Our study introduces a novel multi-modal approach to detect AI-generated images amidst the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Inzamamul Alam , Muhammad Shahid Muneer , Simon S. Woo

The explosive growth of generative AI has saturated the internet with AI-generated images, raising security concerns and increasing the need for reliable detection methods. The primary requirement for such detection is generalizability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Juncong Xu , Yang Yang , Han Fang , Honggu Liu , Weiming Zhang

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

Distinguishing between real and AI-generated images, commonly referred to as 'image detection', presents a timely and significant challenge. Despite extensive research in the (semi-)supervised regime, zero-shot and few-shot solutions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jonathan Brokman , Amit Giloni , Omer Hofman , Roman Vainshtein , Hisashi Kojima , Guy Gilboa

Advancements in deep generative models such as generative adversarial networks and variational autoencoders have resulted in the ability to generate realistic images that are visually indistinguishable from real images, which raises…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Tarik Dzanic , Karan Shah , Freddie Witherden

AI-generated imagery has reached near-photorealistic fidelity, yet this technology poses significant threats to information security and societal trust. Existing deepfake detection methods often exhibit limited robustness in open-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wenwei Xie , Jie Yin , Lu Ma , Xuansong Zhang , Wenjing Zhang

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 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

AI-generated image detection has become crucial with the rapid advancement of vision-generative models. Instead of training detectors tailored to specific datasets, we study a training-free approach leveraging self-supervised models without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sungik Choi , Hankook Lee , Moontae Lee

The remarkable progress in neural-network-driven visual data generation, especially with neural rendering techniques like Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian splatting, offers a powerful alternative to GANs and diffusion models. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chengdong Dong , Vijayakumar Bhagavatula , Zhenyu Zhou , Ajay Kumar

Despite being trained on balanced datasets, existing AI-generated image detectors often exhibit systematic bias at test time, frequently misclassifying fake images as real. We hypothesize that this behavior stems from distributional shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Muli Yang , Gabriel James Goenawan , Henan Wang , Huaiyuan Qin , Chenghao Xu , Yanhua Yang , Fen Fang , Ying Sun , Joo-Hwee Lim , Hongyuan Zhu

With growing abilities of generative models, artificial content detection becomes an increasingly important and difficult task. However, all popular approaches to this problem suffer from poor generalization across domains and generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Tatiana Gaintseva , Laida Kushnareva , German Magai , Irina Piontkovskaya , Sergey Nikolenko , Martin Benning , Serguei Barannikov , Gregory Slabaugh

Diffusion models are able to produce AI-generated images that are almost indistinguishable from real ones. This raises concerns about their potential misuse and poses substantial challenges for detecting them. Many existing detectors rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xinyi Qi , Kai Ye , Chengchun Shi , Ying Yang , Hongyi Zhou , Jin Zhu

Recent advances in generative AI have led to the development of techniques to generate visually realistic synthetic video. While a number of techniques have been developed to detect AI-generated synthetic images, in this paper we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Danial Samadi Vahdati , Tai D. Nguyen , Aref Azizpour , Matthew C. Stamm

With the rapid proliferation of image generative models, the authenticity of digital images has become a significant concern. While existing studies have proposed various methods for detecting AI-generated content, current benchmarks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Huixuan Zhang , Xiaojun Wan

Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled the creation of highly realistic, fully AI-generated images without relying on real source content. While beneficial for many applications, these models also pose significant societal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Qijie Xu , Can Wang , Jiawei Chen , Siwei Lyu , Defang Chen