arXiv:2609.13617v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We evaluate whether the improvements advertised for ChatGPT Images 2.5 translate into better performance on forgery tasks with predetermined answers. W...
By Ankit Raj, Yuxin Zhang, Kidus Zewde, Tommy Duong, Jiaqi Gan, Xingyu Shen, Yuchen Zhou, Huaiyu Guo, Siyu Zhang, Simiao Ren
arXiv:2609.15100v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: An image tool can change its underlying generator while retaining its public name, making version attribution from online posts ambiguous. We study t...
By Dennis Ng, Xingyu Shen, Ankit Raj, Kidus Zewde, Tommy Duong, Yuchen Zhou, Yuxin Zhang, Neo Tiangratanakul, Simiao Ren
arXiv:2605. 09089v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Digital onboarding and eKYC systems used by banks, fintech platforms, telecom providers, and other third-party services commonly verify users by comparing an uploaded identity document with a selfie or live facial capture.
By Abhishek Kumar, Riya Tapwal, Carsten Maple, Mark Hooper
OCR-EDR is a rendering‑aware framework that diagnoses and repairs OCR errors by jointly evaluating an OCR prediction, its editable form, and the rendered image of the source document. It localizes genuine mistakes while preserving valid or rendering‑equivalent predictions, then applies executable edits and iteratively reassesses with updated renderings. On the newly constructed OCRErrBench, the DocEDR model achieves 94.78% diagnostic accuracy and repairs 86.23% of errors, boosting formula metrics by up to 30.99 percentage points and improving CDM scores on several OCR systems.
OCR-EDR is a rendering‑aware framework that diagnoses and repairs OCR errors by comparing an editable OCR prediction with its rendered image. It jointly assesses consistency, localizes genuine errors, and applies executable edits, optionally requesting updated renderings for iterative reassessment. On the newly constructed OCRErrBench, the DocEDR model achieves 94.78% diagnostic accuracy and repairs 86.23% of erroneous inputs, improving formula metrics by up to 30.99 percentage points on benchmark datasets.
By Linnan Zhao, Kang Liu, Hao Yu, Jiabo Zhan, Chong Sun, Chen Li
The paper introduces TaintedPixels, a proactive video‑protection technique that embeds subtle, structured perturbations into the blue channel of facial regions. These perturbations remain invisible in the original video but become noticeable after black‑box manipulation, thereby flagging deepfakes. Experiments on three off‑the‑shelf manipulation tools and two detectors show that TaintedPixels achieves the highest forgery detection rate while keeping visual distortion minimal (LPIPS = 0.0042), and a human study confirms that protected videos are rarely suspected, whereas forgeries from protected sources are identified as fake far more often than those from unprotected sources.
By Juan Hu, Shaojing Fan, Sanjay Saha, Marc Herrera, Terence Sim
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
AngelFingerprint introduces a watermarking framework for text-guided image editing that embeds the editing prompt’s CLIP text embedding directly into the diffusion model’s weights via a LoRA module. The watermark is recoverable from image pixels alone, providing an explainable trace of the edit while remaining stealthy even under full white-box access. Experiments on the MagicBrush dataset show the extractor achieves 86% top‑1 accuracy in 200‑way prompt retrieval, outperforming prompt inversion methods.
By Bo-Han Kung, Futa Waseda, Ching-Chun Chang, Isao Echizen, Shang-Tse Chen
arXiv:2608. 12713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking LLM-generated text is an important task for tracing its provenance.
By Xiaoyan Feng, Yanjun Zhang, He Zhang, Leo Yu Zhang, Shirui Pan
arXiv:2608. 19637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text editing in product posters entails inserting new text or replacing existing text while preserving product appearance, background content, and global composition.
By Honglie Wang, Jia Sun, Zijun Li, Junlong Wu, Pengcheng Wei, Jiyuan Wang, Yongrui Heng, Boheng Zhang, Huaiqing Wang, Dewen Fan, Qianqian Gan, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao, Yan-Ming Zhang
arXiv:2608.29589v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Text-to-image (T2I) safety guardrails fail to generalize equitably to non-standard dialects. Evaluating 23,080 paired prompts across five English diale...
By Minkyu Kim, Juhwan Choi, YoungBin Kim
The paper introduces the concept of watermark laundering, where an attacker uses a single reconstruction prompt on public foundation image models to produce a visually faithful output that renders invisible watermarks undecodable. The authors evaluate this failure mode across six OpenAI and Google image editing models, three watermarking schemes, and 1,800 reconstructions, finding that OpenAI models cause the strongest payload disruption while Nano Banana 2 shows vulnerability of DwtDct under high-fidelity reconstruction. Prompt ablation experiments reveal that the disruption is driven by the reconstruction pathway itself rather than any specific removal instruction, highlighting prompt-conditioned reconstruction as a distinct attack interface.
By Jidong Yang, Qi Li, Wei Zong, Yang-Wai Chow, Willy Susilo, Huaike Yu, Chunpeng Wang, Suo Gao