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.
By Anton Nuzhdin, Marcel Worring, Ivona Najdenkoska
arXiv:2605.16879v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: With the rapid evolution of synthetic media, Image Manipulation Localization (IML) has emerged as a critical component in multimedia forensics for...
By Yunfei Wang, Bo Du, Zhe Yang, Xin Liu, Zhiyu Lin, Tianxin Xu, Ji-Zhe Zhou
The paper introduces the first systematic robustness benchmark for local invisible image watermarking, evaluating five methods across 55 image transformations that include signal distortions, coordinate misalignments, indirect local edits, and direct watermark edits. Results show that all methods are vulnerable to some transformation, with MaskWM achieving the best payload recovery and localization but at the cost of image quality. The study highlights that robustness varies strongly with transformation type, especially noting that geometric misalignment and generative local edits can completely disrupt payload recovery.
By Kai Yao, Bence Szil\'agyi, Sebesty\'en Kamp, M\'at\'e Po\'or, M\'at\'e Szilveszter, Matyas K. Zsoldos, Marc Juarez
The paper proposes Artifact-Complementary Expert Fusion (ACEF), a two‑stage framework that enhances AI‑generated image detection by combining two types of reconstruction artifacts—VAE/DDIM and SRGAN—into aligned synthetic negatives. ACEF first builds artifact‑specific experts using LoRA adaptation on a frozen backbone, then fuses their multi‑layer evidence with Layer‑wise Artifact‑Complementary Fusion (LACF) to mitigate conflicts between artifact manifolds. Experiments on 13 benchmarks show that this approach improves generalizability over existing state‑of‑the‑art methods.
By Yiheng Li, Yang Yang, Wenhao Wang, Zichang Tan, Zecheng Lin, Li Gao, Zhen Lei
arXiv:2607. 18230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern vision-language models (VLMs) have significantly improved image generation and editing capabilities, making pixel-level image tampering detection increasingly important yet challenging under cross-model and out-of-distribution shifts.
By Yi Tang, Xinyi Shang, Jiacheng Cui, Sondos Mahmoud Bsharat, Jiacheng Liu, Xiaohan Zhao, Tran Dinh Tien, Ahmed Elhagry, Salwa K. Al Khatib, Tianjun Yao, Yonina C. Eldar, Jing-Hao Xue, Hao Li, Salman Khan, Zhiqiang Shen
arXiv:2609.31558v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Contrastive Language--Image Pretraining (CLIP) has emerged as a dominant vision backbone due to its strong transferability and zero-shot capabilities....
By Ahmed Abdelnaby, Mohamed Elmahallawy
arXiv:2606. 07660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adapting foundation models to detect generative artifacts via gradient-based updates compromises their intrinsic representations.
By Qiaoyu Chen, Bing Zhang
The paper introduces VeriFi, a watermarking framework that protects face images from AI‑generated manipulation. It embeds a compact semantic latent watermark to preserve content, localizes pixel‑level edits without explicit payloads, and simulates realistic deepfake attacks to improve robustness. Experiments on CelebA‑HQ and FFHQ show that VeriFi outperforms existing methods in robustness, localization accuracy, and recovery quality.
By Peipeng Yu, Jinfeng Xie, Chengfu Ou, Xiaoyu Zhou, Jianwei Fei, Yunshu Dai, Zhihua Xia, Chip Hong Chang
The paper proposes a unified forensics framework that extends traditional binary image manipulation detection to a multiclass setting—distinguishing real, fully synthetic, and tampered images. It adds a segmentation branch for pixel‑level localization of tampered regions, achieving higher classification accuracy and IoU scores compared to recent benchmarks. The authors provide the implementation on GitHub for reproducibility.
By Annalisa Gallina, Marco Fiorucci, Marco Brigo, Federica Battisti, Lamberto Ballan
arXiv:2609.36882v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Localizing AI-edited regions is essential for interpretable forensic analysis, but remains challenging due to subtle and spatially distributed artifact...
By Junhee Lee, Donghyeon Jeon, Taeoh Kim, Beomyoung Kim, MyeongAh Cho
arXiv:2610.08639v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As generated images become increasingly realistic, reliable forgery detection is essential for maintaining trust in visual information. However, existi...
By Jiahua Li, Zixu John, Tom Zhong, Fuping Wu, Tianhao Xu, Jianqing Zheng, Yuanhan Mo, Fei Shen
arXiv:2608. 10166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital watermarking has emerged as a critical technique for provenance and copyright attribution in AI-generated imagery, yet its robustness against realistic, model-agnostic removal attacks remains poorly explored.
By Jie Cao, Qi Li, Zelin Zhang, Xiaodong Wu, Lingshuang Liu, Xiangman Li, Jianbing Ni