arXiv:2608.01988v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Rapid advances in image generation models call for interpretable AI-generated image detection methods that not only determine authenticity but also...
By Kun Guo, Yuzhou Yang, Haoyue Wang, Qichao Ying, Sheng Li, Zhenxing Qian
arXiv:2609.25017v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deepfakes, synthetic audiovisual content produced by deep generative models, have escalated into a critical threat across civilian and military domains...
By Alexandros Gazis, Efstathios Karypidis, Kleanthi Santamouri, Theodoros Vavouras, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Stylianos Pappas
FORGE is a forensic deepfake analysis system that provides region‑grounded natural language explanations for image manipulations. It addresses the inductive bias mismatch of multimodal large language models by adding a Vision‑Only Model trained on dense patch prediction, allowing the language model to interleave tokens with preserved spatial correspondence. Across face‑manipulated and fully synthetic content, FORGE delivers fine‑grained attribute queries and outperforms in‑domain baselines, with region‑specific evaluation and human studies confirming explanation faithfulness.
By Rohit Kundu, Shan Jia, Vishal Mohanty, Athula Balachandran, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury
arXiv:2608. 16259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid progress of image generation models calls for AI-generated image (AIGI) detectors that are not only accurate but also explainable and reliable.
By Bowen Deng, Jiahui Zhan, Yikun Ji, Haozhen Yan, Jianfu Zhang
arXiv:2607. 22745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid advances in image generation are eroding the evidentiary value of visual content in settings where authenticity can affect public safety and personal reputation.
By Yi-Zhi Wang, Yichen Xiao, Linan Yue, Weibo Gao, Yichao Du, Pengfei Fang, Shimin Di, Min-Ling Zhang
ASAP is an interactive visualization system that helps users identify and analyze deceptive patterns in AI‑generated images. It uses a CLIP‑adapted image encoder to produce interpretable representations and generates masks that highlight influential pixel regions, enabling influence measurement of key deceptive features. The system integrates these techniques into a dashboard for quantifying authenticity‑indicative patterns across collections of authentic and AI‑generated images, supporting comparative analysis of different generative models such as GANs and diffusion models, and its effectiveness is demonstrated through a user study and benchmark applications.
By Jinbin Huang, Yuki Ueno, Chen Chen, Aditi Mishra, Bum Chul Kwon, Zhicheng Liu, Chris Bryan
arXiv:2606. 26552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of generative models presents a significant challenge to existing deepfake detection methods, particularly given the widespread dissemination of highly realistic AI-generated images.
By Yangjun Wu, Keyu Yan, Yu Liu, Jingren Zhou, Fei Huang, Rong Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu
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.
By Junxiao Yang, Minghao Zhang, Xiaoce Wang, Haoran Liu, Shiyao Cui, Hongning Wang, Minlie Huang
The paper investigates an agentic framework for open‑world fake image detection that combines specialist detectors with per‑detector triage, prompting, and conflict‑aware evidence arbitration. Experiments across six configurations and three multimodal large language model backbones reveal that naive detector fusion yields high false‑positive rates, while triage and prompting consistently filter unreliable evidence. The most significant improvement comes from the reasoning component: a stronger judge markedly outperforms a weaker one, especially under distribution shift, and overall manipulation recall is nearly saturated, highlighting that the key challenge lies in calibrating trust and arbitrating conflicting forensic evidence rather than detecting manipulations themselves.
By Xianlong Li (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy), Pietro Bongini (University of Siena, Italy), Niccol\'o Pancino (University of Siena, Italy), Marco Blanchini (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy), Benedetta Tondi (University of Siena, Italy), Mauro Barni (University of Siena, Italy)
arXiv:2609.37576v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: With the rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) generation, robust evaluation becomes critical yet challenging, as traditional metrics fail to captur...
By Yu Zhao, Jiarui Wang, Huiyu Duan, Ye Zhao, Jutao Tang, Juntong Wang, Guangtao Zhai, Xiongkuo Min
arXiv:2602. 19946v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models produce visually stunning images and demonstrate excellent prompt following.
By Krzysztof Adamkiewicz, Brian Bernhard Moser, Stanislav Frolov, Tobias Christian Nauen, Federico Raue, Andreas Dengel
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...
By Yichen Jiang, Mohammed Talha Alam, Sohail Ahmed Khan, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Fakhri Karray