arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Evidence-Guided Detection, Localization and Explanation for Text-Centric Image Forensics

The paper introduces an evidence‑guided detector‑localizer‑reasoner system for text‑centric image forensics, addressing the challenges posed by AI‑generated content. It combines an image‑level authenticity detector, a localizer that extracts tampered regions, and an MLLM‑based reasoner that generates structured forensic reports grounded in the detected evidence. The system employs iterative difficulty‑aware mining and report‑mask consistency post‑processing, achieving a score of 0.638 and ranking second in the ACM Multimedia 2026 GenText‑Forensics Challenge.

By Peifeng Liu, Bin Li, Qingsong Zhang, Yangxin Yu, Leqing Chen, Xiaoye Qiu
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

From Sharp Eyes to Expert Mind: Internalizing Expert Knowledge in MLLMs for Tampered Text Detection

arXiv:2609.36145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tampered Text Detection (TTD) is essential for safeguarding document authenticity in security-critical workflows. Existing expert models are effective...

By Kaiqing Lin, Songze Li, Shen Chen, Yunfei Guo, Xiaoye Qiu, Haodong Li, Taiping Yao, Bo Wang, Youchang Xiao, Bin Li, Shouhong Ding
arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

ManiVid: Unified and Explainable Forensic Analysis of Manipulated Videos

ManiVid introduces a unified forensic analysis framework for manipulated videos, combining forgery detection, artifact grounding, and anomaly explanation. The authors release ManiVid-38K, a large dataset of 19K real‑fake video pairs with authenticity labels, forgery masks, and explanations, and a benchmark ManiVidBench with 1K balanced pairs. ManiVidLens, the proposed model, outperforms existing methods in artifact grounding and anomaly explanation while matching state‑of‑the‑art detection accuracy.

By Hengrui Kang, Zhonghao Yan, Yuxuan Yang, Ruoyan Jing, Yuncheng Guo, Hao Chen, Kongming Liang, Zhanyu Ma, Conghui He, Weijia Li
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