cs.CVSep 11, 2026

A Multi-View and Confusion-Guided Ensemble Framework for Robust Synthetic Image Attribution

Authors: Zuomin Qu

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Abstract

Synthetic image attribution (SIA) has become increasingly important with the rapid advancement of text-to-image generation models. However, accurately identifying the source model of a generated image remains challenging due to the growing similarity among modern diffusion-based generators and the presence of diverse post-processing operations. In this report, we present a multi-view and confusion-guided ensemble framework for the Synthetic Image Attribution Challenge of the DLMMDD Workshop at ICANN 2026. Our approach integrates multiple complementary architectures, including FFT-ConvNeXt, DINOv2, CLIP, and Xception, to capture diverse attribution cues from frequency, semantic, and forensic perspectives. To improve robustness against unknown degradations and image manipulations, extensive data augmentation strategies are employed during training, simulating realistic post-processing operations such as compression, resizing, grayscale conversion, and blur. Furthermore, we analyze the confusion patterns of the ensemble model and observe severe ambiguity between Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Diffusion 3.5. To address this issue, we introduce a dedicated binary expert classifier that is selectively activated under low-confidence conditions. We additionally apply class-adaptive confidence calibration to improve the discrimination of challenging classes such as Tencent Hunyuan. The proposed framework achieved 99.53% on the public leaderboard and 99.20% on the private leaderboard. The source code and implementation details are publicly available at https://github.com/ZOMIN28/SIA.

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