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Train, Test, Re-evaluate: Schedule-Sensitive Evaluation of Generative Data for Hand Detection

arXiv:2606. 01896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generated (or synthetic) image data is increasingly used to augment or replace real training datasets when target imagery is scarce, expensive, or biased.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

FUSED: Forensic-Semantic Mixture-of-Experts for AI Inpainting Detection and Localization

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 Machine Learning
Aug 11

From Fake to Real: Pretraining on Balanced Synthetic Images to Prevent Spurious Correlations in Image Recognition

arXiv:2308. 04553v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual recognition models are prone to learning spurious correlations induced by a biased training set where certain conditions $B$ (\eg, Indoors) are over-represented in certain classes $Y$ (\eg, Big Dogs).

By Maan Qraitem, Kate Saenko, Bryan A. Plummer
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Domain shift-robust object detection with GenAI image editing

The paper investigates using diffusion-based generative image editing to improve object detector robustness against domain shifts, specifically camouflaged military vehicle detection. By synthetically adding foliage, netting, and multi‑spectral camouflage to training data with models such as Qwen Image Edit 2509 and Flux.2 Dev, the authors demonstrate significant mAP gains (up to +20.1 for foliage) over detectors trained on uncamouflaged data. LoRA fine‑tuning further boosts performance for the more challenging multi‑spectral camouflage.

By Isabel D. Stein, Thijs A. Eker, Sebastiaan P. Snel, Ella P. Fokkinga, Klamer Schutte, Luca Ambrogioni, Friso G. Heslinga