arXiv Computer Vision

GazeCLIP: Gaze-Guided CLIP with Adaptive-Enhanced Fine-Grained Language Prompt for Deepfake Attribution and Detection

The paper introduces GazeCLIP, a gaze‑guided CLIP framework that uses adaptive‑enhanced fine‑grained language prompts for deepfake attribution and detection (DFAD). It presents a new benchmark evaluating DFAD on novel generative methods such as diffusion and flow models, and proposes a gaze‑aware image encoder (GIE) that fuses gaze prompts with image embeddings to capture global forgery patterns. A language refinement encoder (LRE) further refines language embeddings for precise vision‑language matching, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance with 6.56% higher accuracy and 5.32% higher AUC on the benchmark.

arXiv AI
Sep 18

FORGE: Forensic Reasoning with Grounded Evidence

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 Computer Vision
Oct 12

Low, High, and Semantic-Level Vision-Language Learning for AI-Generated Image Detection

The paper introduces LHSDet, a detector for AI‑generated images that treats detection as a visual question answering task. It employs a triple‑branch architecture: a low‑level visual branch for local texture cues, a high‑level visual branch using SigLIP2 for global perception, and a semantic‑level textual branch that generates captions with BLIP‑2. Experiments show that LHSDet achieves strong accuracy and robustness across various generative models.

By Qian Yao, Luming Yang, Jun-Jie Huang, Yongjun Wang, Xinwang Liu, Meng Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

OpenVAM: Open-World Visual Attention Modeling with VLMs

OpenVAM is a new framework for visual attention modeling that combines a dense saliency map with language‑based explanations. It uses a decoupled design: a visual pathway for precise localization and a vision‑language head that generates grounded what/why explanations. The method is trained in three stages to preserve localization while adding language grounding, and a scalable pipeline creates multi‑domain annotations for evaluation.

By Kiana Hooshanfar, Amirhossein Kazerouni, Alireza Hosseini, Michael Brudno, Babak Taati
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

Gaze Attention: Query-Adaptive Visual Routing for Efficient Multimodal LLMs

Gaze Attention is a new mechanism for multimodal large language models that selectively focuses on relevant visual regions during each generation step, rather than attending to all visual tokens. By grouping tokens into spatial regions and using learnable context tokens to retain global information, it reduces attention computation and visual key‑value entries by up to 90%. Experiments on 13 image and 6 video benchmarks show that Gaze Attention matches or outperforms dense‑attention baselines while using fewer visual resources.

By Junha Song, Byeongho Heo, Geonmo Gu, Jaegul Choo, Dongyoon Han, Sangdoo Yun