arXiv:2510. 05740v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid development of generative models has made it increasingly crucial to develop detectors that can reliably detect synthetic images.
By Amirtaha Amanzadi, Zahra Dehghanian, Hamid Beigy, Hamid R. Rabiee
arXiv:2606. 00101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) technologies, video forgery has become increasingly prevalent, posing new challenges to public discourse and societal security.
By Huidong Feng, Wentao Chen, Jie Chen, Xinqi Cai, Ruolong Ma, Yinglin Zheng, Yuxin Lin, Ming Zeng
arXiv:2604. 17376v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In today's day and age, we face a challenge in detecting deepfake images because of the fast evolution of modern generative models and the poor generalization capability of existing methods.
By Kaliki V Srinanda, M Manvith Prabhu, Hemanth K Mogilipalem, Jayavarapu S Abhinai, Vaibhav Santhosh, Aryan Herur, Deepu Vijayasenan
arXiv:2609.01511v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Face forgery detectors often achieve strong results on controlled benchmarks, but their reliability under realistic image degradations remains limited....
By Lucas Cunha, Lucas Sotomaior, Lucas Gasperin, Beatriz Caldas, Eduardo Pianovski, Rayson Laroca
arXiv:2606. 30528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current generative models, including GANs and diffusion models, have reached an outstanding level of photorealism, posing significant risks to privacy and security.
By Orazio Pontorno, Mattia Litrico, Luca Guarnera, Mario Valerio Giuffrida, Sebastiano Battiato
Explainable Deepfake Detection with Feature-robust Augmentation and Evidence-grounded Explanation Optimization proposes a new framework that improves deepfake detection and interpretability. The approach introduces Feature-robust Augmentation—diversified degradation-aware strategies combined with supervised contrastive learning and a mean-teacher architecture—to maintain accuracy on low-quality images. For explanations, it employs evidence-grounded preference optimization, guiding the model to focus on genuine manipulation traces by learning from chosen-rejected explanation pairs that omit evidence or inject irrelevant details. The method achieved first place in the ACM Multimedia 2026 Explainable Deepfake Detection Challenge and is publicly available on GitHub.
By Zhu Xu, Jiaqi Tang, Pokai Chen, Yuxin Peng, Yang Liu
arXiv:2502. 19716v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled the creation of highly realistic, fully AI-generated images without relying on real source content.
By Qijie Xu, Can Wang, Jiawei Chen, Siwei Lyu, Defang Chen
The paper proposes Artifact-Complementary Expert Fusion (ACEF), a two‑stage framework that enhances AI‑generated image detection by combining two types of reconstruction artifacts—VAE/DDIM and SRGAN—into aligned synthetic negatives. ACEF first builds artifact‑specific experts using LoRA adaptation on a frozen backbone, then fuses their multi‑layer evidence with Layer‑wise Artifact‑Complementary Fusion (LACF) to mitigate conflicts between artifact manifolds. Experiments on 13 benchmarks show that this approach improves generalizability over existing state‑of‑the‑art methods.
By Yiheng Li, Yang Yang, Wenhao Wang, Zichang Tan, Zecheng Lin, Li Gao, Zhen Lei
FUSED is a new framework that jointly detects and localizes AI-generated inpainting by combining low-level forensic cues with high-level semantic features through a sparsely-gated Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It predicts both an image-level manipulation score and a pixel-level mask of the inpainted region. On the OpenSDID cross-generator benchmark, FUSED outperforms existing methods, especially on unseen generators, and transfers effectively to the AutoSplice and CocoGlide benchmarks, doubling localization performance.
By Anton Nuzhdin, Marcel Worring, Ivona Najdenkoska
arXiv:2606. 07660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adapting foundation models to detect generative artifacts via gradient-based updates compromises their intrinsic representations.
By Qiaoyu Chen, Bing Zhang
The paper introduces a multi‑view, confusion‑guided ensemble framework for synthetic image attribution, combining FFT‑ConvNeXt, DINOv2, CLIP, and Xception to capture frequency, semantic, and forensic cues. Extensive data augmentation simulates realistic post‑processing, while a binary expert classifier and class‑adaptive confidence calibration address ambiguities between similar diffusion models. The approach achieved 99.53% on the public leaderboard and 99.20% on the private leaderboard for the ICANN 2026 DLMMDD Workshop challenge.
By Zuomin Qu
arXiv:2607. 06254v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deepfake image detection is currently served by three fundamentally different paradigms: commercial APIs, zero-shot vision-language models (LLMs), and open-source detectors.
By Sharayu N. Deshmukh, Md Rashidunnabi, Nelton Tiago Gemo, Kurundkar G. D., Mahamune M. R., Nilesh K. Deshmukh