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With the rapid advancement of generative models, powerful image editing methods now enable diverse and highly realistic image manipulations that far surpass traditional deepfake techniques, posing new challenges for manipulation detection.…

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Deepfake detection is crucial for curbing the harm it causes to society. However, current Deepfake detection methods fail to thoroughly explore artifact information across different domains due to insufficient intrinsic interactions. These…

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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…

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The boom of Generative AI brings opportunities entangled with risks and concerns. Existing literature emphasizes the generalization capability of deepfake detection on unseen generators, significantly promoting the detector's ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yongqi Yang , Zhihao Qian , Ye Zhu , Olga Russakovsky , Yu Wu

Deepfake detection faces a critical generalization hurdle, with performance deteriorating when there is a mismatch between the distributions of training and testing data. A broadly received explanation is the tendency of these detectors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhiyuan Yan , Yuhao Luo , Siwei Lyu , Qingshan Liu , Baoyuan Wu

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated visual media has created an urgent need for efficient, trustworthy deepfake detection systems. However, existing deep learning-based detection methods rely on computationally intensive and…

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Diffusion-based image synthesis has made AI-generated images (AIGI) increasingly photorealistic, raising urgent concerns about authenticity in applications such as misinformation detection, digital forensics, and content moderation. Despite…

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The rapid advancement of deepfake and face swap technologies has raised significant concerns in digital security, particularly in identity verification and onboarding processes. Conventional detection methods often struggle to generalize…

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Full face synthesis and partial face manipulation by virtue of the generative adversarial networks (GANs) and its variants have raised wide public concerns. In the multi-media forensics area, detecting and ultimately locating the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Yihao Huang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Qing Guo , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

The rapid advancement of photorealistic generators has reached a critical juncture where the discrepancy between authentic and manipulated images is increasingly indistinguishable. Thus, benchmarking and advancing techniques detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yaning Zhang , Zitong Yu , Tianyi Wang , Xiaobin Huang , Linlin Shen , Zan Gao , Jianfeng Ren

Deep neural networks can generate images that are astonishingly realistic, so much so that it is often hard for humans to distinguish them from actual photos. These achievements have been largely made possible by Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Joel Frank , Thorsten Eisenhofer , Lea Schönherr , Asja Fischer , Dorothea Kolossa , Thorsten Holz

The accessibility surge and abuse risks of user-friendly image editing models have created an urgent need for generalizable, up-to-date methods for Image Manipulation Detection and Localization (IMDL). Current IMDL research typically uses…

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AI-generated image detection has become increasingly important with the rapid advancement of generative AI. However, detectors built on Vision Foundation Models (VFMs, \emph{e.g.}, CLIP) often struggle to generalize to images created using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chao Shuai , Zhenguang Liu , Shaojing Fan , Bin Gong , Weichen Lian , Xiuli Bi , Zhongjie Ba , Kui Ren

The generalization problem is broadly recognized as a critical challenge in detecting deepfakes. Most previous work believes that the generalization gap is caused by the differences among various forgery methods. However, our investigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Xinghe Fu , Zhiyuan Yan , Taiping Yao , Shen Chen , Xi Li

As latent diffusion models (LDMs) democratize image generation capabilities, there is a growing need to detect fake images. A good detector should focus on the generative models fingerprints while ignoring image properties such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anirudh Sundara Rajan , Utkarsh Ojha , Jedidiah Schloesser , Yong Jae Lee

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), such as GPT4o, have shown strong capabilities in visual reasoning and explanation generation. However, despite these strengths, they face significant challenges in the increasingly critical task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fanrui Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Jiaying Zhu , Esther Sun , Dong Li , Qiang Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha

Deepfake technologies have been blurring the boundaries between the real and unreal, likely resulting in malicious events. By leveraging newly emerged deepfake technologies, deepfake researchers have been making a great upending to create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yabin Wang , Zhiwu Huang , Xiaopeng Hong

In recent years, detecting fake multimodal content on social media has drawn increasing attention. Two major forms of deception dominate: human-crafted misinformation (e.g., rumors and misleading posts) and AI-generated content produced by…

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This paper aims to address a common challenge in deep learning-based image transformation methods, such as image enhancement and super-resolution, which heavily rely on precisely aligned paired datasets with pixel-level alignments. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhangkai Ni , Juncheng Wu , Zian Wang , Wenhan Yang , Hanli Wang , Lin Ma

AI-generated image (AIGI) detection and source model attribution remain central challenges in combating deepfake abuses, primarily due to the structural diversity of generative models. Current detection methods are prone to overfitting…

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