arXiv AI
1d ago

AI-Generated Image Detectors Exploit Global Artifacts: Evidence from Inpainting Exchange

The paper demonstrates that diffusion‑based inpainting introduces a subtle, global spectral shift across the entire image, which current AI‑generated image detectors fail to detect. By creating a model‑free diagnostic called Inpainting Exchange (INP‑X) that restores unedited pixels while keeping synthesized content, the authors show that many pretrained detectors, commercial APIs, and bias‑aware methods collapse to chance performance. A large benchmark of 30K triplets across four datasets and three inpainters confirms the prevalence of this artifact, and a perceptual study indicates humans also struggle to spot the shift.

By Elif Nebioglu, Emirhan Bilgi\c{c}, Adrian Popescu
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

VITA: A Multi-Source Vicinal Transfer Augmentation Method for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

The paper introduces VITA, a multi‑source vicinal transfer augmentation method designed to improve out‑of‑distribution generalization in computer vision. VITA combines tangent transfer, which generates initial augmented samples to enhance robustness against various image corruptions, with an integration step that uses a generative model to produce on‑manifold samples from multiple vicinal sources. Experiments on corruption benchmarks show that VITA outperforms existing state‑of‑the‑art augmentation techniques.

By Minghui Chen, Cheng Wen, Feng Zheng, Fengxiang He, Ling Shao
arXiv AI
Sep 16

What Breaks Local Watermarks? A Robustness Benchmark for Local Invisible Image Watermarking

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
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Order within Chaos: Capturing Intrinsic Energy Anomalies for AI-Manipulated Image Forgery Localization

arXiv:2606. 02178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in generative AI have led to image editing models capable of producing realistic forgeries that evade traditional image forgery localization methods, as these approaches depend on physical noise absent in synthetic data.

By Yiming Wang, Baiqi Wu, Qingming Li, Jiahao Chen, Tong Zhang, Shouling Ji