arXiv Computer Vision

Deepfakes and Synthetic Media: Generation, Detection, and Governance

arXiv AI
Jun 2

CoCoVideo: The High-Quality Commercial-Model-Based Contrastive Benchmark for AI-Generated Video Detection

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.

By Huidong Feng, Wentao Chen, Jie Chen, Xinqi Cai, Ruolong Ma, Yinglin Zheng, Yuxin Lin, Ming Zeng
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

Unifying Semantic Priors and High-Frequency Traces: Enhancing V-JEPA with Mixture-of-Experts for Robust Synthetic Image Forensics

The paper introduces MoE-JEPA, a dual‑stream deepfake detection model that combines a V‑JEPA backbone with a Residual Mixture‑of‑Experts mechanism and a noise stream branch. It further incorporates a Gated Attention Multiple Instance Learning module to refine spatial semantic understanding. On the SID‑Set benchmark, MoE‑JEPA achieves a new state‑of‑the‑art accuracy of 95.54%, outperforming much larger models.

By Simone Teglia, Irene Amerini
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

ASAP: Visual Analytics for Identifying and Analyzing Image Patterns in AI-generated Images

ASAP is an interactive visualization system that helps users identify and analyze deceptive patterns in AI‑generated images. It uses a CLIP‑adapted image encoder to produce interpretable representations and generates masks that highlight influential pixel regions, enabling influence measurement of key deceptive features. The system integrates these techniques into a dashboard for quantifying authenticity‑indicative patterns across collections of authentic and AI‑generated images, supporting comparative analysis of different generative models such as GANs and diffusion models, and its effectiveness is demonstrated through a user study and benchmark applications.

By Jinbin Huang, Yuki Ueno, Chen Chen, Aditi Mishra, Bum Chul Kwon, Zhicheng Liu, Chris Bryan
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Explainable Deepfake Detection with Feature-robust Augmentation and Evidence-grounded Explanation Optimization

Explainable Deepfake Detection with Feature-robust Augmentation and Evidence-grounded Explanation Optimization proposes a new framework that improves deepfake detection and interpretability. The approach introduces Feature-robust Augmentation—diversified degradation-aware strategies combined with supervised contrastive learning and a mean-teacher architecture—to maintain accuracy on low-quality images. For explanations, it employs evidence-grounded preference optimization, guiding the model to focus on genuine manipulation traces by learning from chosen-rejected explanation pairs that omit evidence or inject irrelevant details. The method achieved first place in the ACM Multimedia 2026 Explainable Deepfake Detection Challenge and is publicly available on GitHub.

By Zhu Xu, Jiaqi Tang, Pokai Chen, Yuxin Peng, Yang Liu
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 AI
4d ago

A Benchmark & Dataset for Detecting AI-Manipulated Visual Evidence in the Court System

arXiv:2609.37783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Photographic evidence is becoming increasingly vulnerable to forms of alteration and fabrication that existing legal and technical workflows are not...

By Kelly McConvey, Sajad Ebrahimi, Nima Jamali, Jalehsadat Mahdavimoghaddam, Matina Mahdizadeh Sani, Maksym Taranukhin, Wentao Zhang, Jacquelyn Burkell, Yuntian Deng, Karen Eltis, Maura R. Grossman, Vered Shwartz, Ebrahim Bagheri