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.
arXiv:2502. 19716v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled the creation of highly realistic, fully AI-generated images without relying on real source content.
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.
arXiv:2606. 07660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adapting foundation models to detect generative artifacts via gradient-based updates compromises their intrinsic representations.
arXiv:2607. 06615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image forgery detection is a critical task in digital forensics, yet many deep-learning localization approaches are typically GPU-accelerated and computationally heavier than handcrafted screening methods.
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: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...
arXiv:2606. 00101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) technologies, video forgery has become increasingly prevalent, posing new challenges to public discourse and societal security.
arXiv:2608. 06865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The malicious use of generative artificial intelligence to create highly realistic deepfake videos raises serious ethical concerns and poses substantial challenges to AI safety.
The paper introduces a self‑referential retrosynthesis framework for explainable AI provenance forensics that works with fixed‑generator generative models. It uses a jointly optimized encoder‑decoder pair to embed client inputs, generate high‑fidelity outputs, and then verify provenance by comparing the resynthesized image to the original query. The method eliminates the need for watermarking or generator modifications while providing interpretable evidence of a model’s output origin.
arXiv:2608.30656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proactive tamper localization embeds an imperceptible signal into an image prior to distribution, enabling pixel-level manipulation detection. Existing...
arXiv:2608. 04840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Verifying the authenticity of satellite imagery has become increasingly critical given advances in generative artificial intelligence.
arXiv:2204. 14224v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The automated analysis of heterogeneous natural textures is frequently hindered by physical damage and data loss, presenting a significant challenge to computer vision.