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:2610.01544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing image forgery detectors often suffer from generalization to unseen manipulation methods due to the limited ability to capture transferable for...
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.
Existing image forgery detectors often suffer from generalization to unseen manipulation methods due to the limited ability to capture transferable forensic cues. Recent cross-reconstruction based met...
The paper introduces RED (Reconstruction Evolution Dynamics), a new framework for detecting AI-generated images that leverages the evolution of intermediate reconstruction stages rather than relying solely on static representations or endpoint discrepancies. RED uses a frozen multiscale VQ‑VAE and a frozen CLIP encoder to capture a reconstruction trajectory, then learns image‑adaptive stage weights from token negative log‑likelihoods provided by a frozen VAR model. Experiments on six benchmarks show RED achieves the highest average accuracy (92.5%) and precision (97.5%) among evaluated methods, and it remains robust to common image degradations.
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:2609.07670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing realism and accessibility of manipulated and generated faces threaten the trustworthiness of digital media. To detect such forgeries, dee...
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.
arXiv:2603.14005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To generalize deepfake detectors to future unseen forgeries, most existing methods attempt to simulate the dynamically evolving forgery types using...
EIB-Net is an Entropy‑Guided Information Bottleneck Network designed to detect AI‑generated images across diverse generative models. It introduces an Image Entropy metric to automatically select the most informative, low‑entropy patch and applies a Variational Information Bottleneck to learn compact, generalizable features. Experiments on DIFF, DiffusionForensics, and GenImage benchmarks show state‑of‑the‑art performance, achieving 85.7% accuracy with only 2% of training data and maintaining robust cross‑generator generalization.