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.
arXiv:2607. 22808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) models has necessitated robust Synthetic Image Source Attribution (SIA) methodologies.
arXiv:2609.14316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in image generation have made synthetic images increasingly difficult to distinguish from real photographs, raising concerns about the trustwo...
arXiv:2512.17730v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Detectors of AI-generated images tend to inherit the biases of the data they are trained on: models fitted to GAN imagery learn to treat GAN-specif...
arXiv:2508.01248v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid progress of generative models, such as GANs and diffusion models, has facilitated the creation of highly realistic images, raising growin...
arXiv:2606. 25375v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid adoption of generative AI, synthetic medical images pose growing risks, including diagnostic deception and insurance fraud.
arXiv:2609.07670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing realism and accessibility of manipulated and generated faces threaten the trustworthiness of digital media. To detect such forgeries, dee...
ReGain is a training‑free correction that improves subject fidelity in text‑to‑image diffusion models personalized with synthetic images. The authors show that fine‑tuning on synthetic images degrades fidelity due to inflated classifier‑free guidance, especially at high frequencies. ReGain measures this inflation per frequency band and scales it down during sampling, closing 51‑64% of the fidelity gap on Stable Diffusion v1.5 and improving performance on SDXL and SD 3.5 while preserving text alignment.
arXiv:2606. 03348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent generative models can now produce visual artifacts with realistic embedded text and layouts, creating a new misinformation threat: synthetic credibility.
With the rapid adoption of generative AI, synthetic medical images pose growing risks, including diagnostic deception and insurance fraud. Although prior work has explored vision-language model (VLM)-based synthetic image detection, these evaluations typically consider images in isolation.
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.
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.
arXiv:2512.20257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rise of easily accessible generative tools for creating and manipulating multimedia content, the threat of realistic synthetic alterations...