The paper introduces an evidence‑guided detector‑localizer‑reasoner system for text‑centric image forensics, addressing the challenges posed by AI‑generated content. It combines an image‑level authenticity detector, a localizer that extracts tampered regions, and an MLLM‑based reasoner that generates structured forensic reports grounded in the detected evidence. The system employs iterative difficulty‑aware mining and report‑mask consistency post‑processing, achieving a score of 0.638 and ranking second in the ACM Multimedia 2026 GenText‑Forensics Challenge.
arXiv:2609.38391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Document text forgery has evolved beyond simple pixel-level manipulation: modern attacks alter not only the appearance of a document but also its meani...
arXiv:2608. 08009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fake news increasingly relies on cross-modal image-text forgeries, making transparent and verifiable reasoning chains an urgent need for Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation (DGM4).
arXiv:2609.39066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional image forgery detection methods produce binary scores or pixel-level masks without interpretable evidence, while recent multimodal large l...
The MSU team presents a modular approach to the Explainable Deepfake Detection Challenge, combining multiple DINOv3 backbones with Mesorch manipulation-localization features for real/fake classification. They incorporate a Grounding-DINO-based pseudo-mask pipeline to generate artifact evidence maps and a local contrastive objective to separate artifact from authenticity cues. For explanations, class-conditional Qwen3-VL models produce complex descriptions, which are then simplified by a GRPO-optimized text model, achieving high detection and explanation scores on the XPlainVerse dataset.
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.
arXiv:2609.36145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tampered Text Detection (TTD) is essential for safeguarding document authenticity in security-critical workflows. Existing expert models are effective...
arXiv:2604. 02694v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid progress of generative AI has enabled increasingly realistic text-centric image forgeries, posing major challenges to document safety.
ManiVid introduces a unified forensic analysis framework for manipulated videos, combining forgery detection, artifact grounding, and anomaly explanation. The authors release ManiVid-38K, a large dataset of 19K real‑fake video pairs with authenticity labels, forgery masks, and explanations, and a benchmark ManiVidBench with 1K balanced pairs. ManiVidLens, the proposed model, outperforms existing methods in artifact grounding and anomaly explanation while matching state‑of‑the‑art detection accuracy.
arXiv:2607.25962v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent generative models can produce images with few obvious visual artifacts, weakening detectors and explanations that rely only on surface appea...
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.
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.
arXiv:2609.38251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid evolution of image manipulation techniques has raised growing public security concerns. Existing Image Forgery Localization (IFL) methods c...