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Recent advancements in image synthesis, particularly with the advent of GAN and Diffusion models, have amplified public concerns regarding the dissemination of disinformation. To address such concerns, numerous AI-generated Image (AIGI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yunfeng Diao , Naixin Zhai , Changtao Miao , Zitong Yu , Xingxing Wei , Xun Yang , Meng Wang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Silvia Poletti , Justin Ilyes , Marcel Hasenbalg , David Fischinger , Martin Boyer

AI-generated image detection faces a persistent trade-off between generalization and efficiency: lightweight artifact-based methods often degrade on unseen generators or domains, whereas more robust large-scale models are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zexi Jia , Zhiqiang Yuan , Xiaoyue Duan , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou , Anil K. Jain

Deepfake or synthetic images produced using deep generative models pose serious risks to online platforms. This has triggered several research efforts to accurately detect deepfake images, achieving excellent performance on publicly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sifat Muhammad Abdullah , Aravind Cheruvu , Shravya Kanchi , Taejoong Chung , Peng Gao , Murtuza Jadliwala , Bimal Viswanath

Current AIGC detectors often achieve near-perfect accuracy on images produced by the same generator used for training but struggle to generalize to outputs from unseen generators. We trace this failure in part to latent prior bias:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yue Zhou , Xinan He , KaiQing Lin , Bin Fan , Feng Ding , Bin Li

The exponential growth of AI-generated images (AIGIs) underscores the urgent need for robust and generalizable detection methods. In this paper, we establish two key principles for AIGI detection through systematic analysis: (1) All Patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zheng Yang , Ruoxin Chen , Zhiyuan Yan , Ke-Yue Zhang , Xinghe Fu , Shuang Wu , Xiujun Shu , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Zequn Qin , Xi Li

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

Robust detection of AI-generated images in the wild remains challenging due to the rapid evolution of generative models and varied real-world distortions. We argue that relying on a single training regime, resolution, or backbone is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Fei Wu , Dagong Lu , Mufeng Yao , Xinlei Xu , Fengjun Guo

Although deep neural networks are effective on supervised learning tasks, they have been shown to be brittle. They are prone to overfitting on their training distribution and are easily fooled by small adversarial perturbations. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Laëtitia Shao , Yang Song , Stefano Ermon

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

In recent years, advanced image editing and generation methods have rapidly evolved, making detecting and locating forged image content increasingly challenging. Most existing image forgery detection methods rely on identifying the edited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Hengrun Zhao , Yunzhi Zhuge , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Yu Zeng

Deep generative models have demonstrated impressive performance in various computer vision applications, including image synthesis, video generation, and medical analysis. Despite their significant advancements, these models may be used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jingyi Deng , Chenhao Lin , Zhengyu Zhao , Shuai Liu , Zhe Peng , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

Test Input Generators (TIGs) are crucial to assess the ability of Deep Learning (DL) image classifiers to provide correct predictions for inputs beyond their training and test sets. Recent advancements in Generative AI (GenAI) models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Maryam , Matteo Biagiola , Andrea Stocco , Vincenzo Riccio

With the rapid proliferation of powerful image generators, accurate detection of AI-generated images has become essential for maintaining a trustworthy online environment. However, existing deepfake detectors often generalize poorly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yanzhu Liu , Xiao Liu , Yuexuan Wang , Mondal Soumik

Growing amount and quality of AI-generated texts makes detecting such content more difficult. In most real-world scenarios, the domain (style and topic) of generated data and the generator model are not known in advance. In this work, we…

With the rapid development of generative models, discerning AI-generated content has evoked increasing attention from both industry and academia. In this paper, we conduct a sanity check on "whether the task of AI-generated image detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shilin Yan , Ouxiang Li , Jiayin Cai , Yanbin Hao , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie

With the evolution of Text-to-Image (T2I) models, the quality defects of AI-Generated Images (AIGIs) pose a significant barrier to their widespread adoption. In terms of both perception and alignment, existing models cannot always guarantee…

The rapid advancement of generators (e.g., StyleGAN, Midjourney, DALL-E) has produced highly realistic synthetic images, posing significant challenges to digital media authenticity. These generators are typically based on a few core…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le , Van-Tuan Tran , Dinh-Thuc Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Recent AI media detectors report near-perfect performance under clean laboratory evaluation, yet their robustness under realistic deployment conditions remains underexplored. In practice, AI-generated images are resized, compressed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Aishwarya Budhkar , Trishita Dhara , Siddhesh Sheth

Although unsupervised generative modeling of an image dataset using a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) has been used to detect anomalous images, or anomalous regions in images, recent works have shown that this method often identifies images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 David Dehaene , Pierre Eline