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  1. Typographic Attack Against VLM-based AI-generated Image Detection

    Sep 30, 2026Eunmin Lee, Jungwoo Kim, Jong-Seok LeeAi-Generated Image DetectionTamper Localization

    School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei University

  2. Look Closer: Patch-wise Supervision for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Sep 29, 2026Zhida Zhang, Tao Wu, Siyu Liu +1Ai-Generated Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    MAIS & NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), Beijing, China · ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China · Anhui University, Hefei, China

  3. RED: Reconstruction Evolution Dynamics for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

    Sep 29, 2026Wenpeng Mu, Junshan Jin, Tanfeng Sun +2Ai-Generated Image DetectionDigital Forensics

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  4. EIB-Net: Entropy-Guided Information Bottleneck for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

    Sep 24, 2026Zhida Zhang, Xinlei Ma, Jie CaoAi-Generated Image DetectionImage Generation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, UCAS & NLPR, CASIA Beijing, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, UCAS & NLPR, CASIA Beijing, China · NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China

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

    Sep 23, 2026Jinbin Huang, Yuki Ueno, Chen Chen +4Ai-Generated Image DetectionDeepfake Detection

    Arizona State University, AZ, US · University of Maryland, MD, US · Fujitsu Research of America, PA, US +1

  6. ChatGPT Images 2.5 in the Wild: A Launch-Period Dataset and Detector Evaluation

    Sep 14, 2026Dennis Ng, Xingyu Shen, Ankit Raj +6Ai-Generated Image DetectionQuery Image

  7. Frontier vision-language models have overtaken young adults at detecting AI-generated portraits -- but not their calibration

    Aug 31, 2026Sunwhi Kim, Sunyul Kim, Meounggun Jo +1Ai-Generated Image DetectionPortraits

    Hwasung Medi-Science University, Dept. of Bio-Healthcare · Hwasung Medi-Science University, Dept. of Bio-Healthcare, Republic of Korea · Yonsei University, Graduate School of Engineering, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence +5

  8. Hierarchical Channel Stacking: A Structured Decision Framework for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Aug 27, 2026Saifullah Shoaib, Akash Borigi, Rupendra Lekkala +5Synthetic Image DetectionAi-Generated Image Detection

    Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla MO 65409, USA · University of Houston, Houston TX 77479, USA · Aug Cranium AI, Inc., Short Hills NJ 07078, USA

  9. SPARED: Reasoning-Based AI-Generated Image Detection via Adversarially Edited Data

    Aug 13, 2026Yicheng Bao, Xiahui Guo, Xuhong Wang +1Ai-Generated Image DetectionAdversarial Examples

    1East China Normal University · 2Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  10. Structured Local Differential Modeling for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Aug 13, 2026Jiazhen Yang, Ruijin Jin, Junjun Zheng +3Ai-Generated Image DetectionForgeries

    Zhejiang University · Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba · Zhejiang University of Technology

  11. Understanding Why Foundation Models Work for Diffusion-Generated Image Detection

    Aug 12, 2026Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Luisa VerdolivaAi-Generated Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    University Federico II of Naples, 80125 Naples, Italy

  12. Robustness of AI-Art Detectors under Generator Shift

    Aug 12, 2026Shivank Singh Thakur, Meien Li, Mark StampAi-Generated Image DetectionGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    Department of Computer Science, San Jose State University

  13. MarkNull: Model-Agnostic Watermark Removal in AI-Generated Images via On-Manifold Latent Manipulation

    Aug 10, 2026Jie Cao, Qi Li, Zelin Zhang +4WatermarksAi-Generated Image Detection

    Queen’s University, Canada · University of Waterloo, Canada

  14. PatchHead: Learning Spatial Patch Evidence for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

    Aug 10, 2026Shengbo Qi, Hongyi Fang, Benjia Zhou +1Ai-Generated Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai · Shenzhen University

  15. PE-Mamba: Bidirectional Selective Layer Aggregation for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Aug 8, 2026Kutub Uddin, Nusrat Tasnim, Khalid MalikAi-Generated Image DetectionSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    College of Innovation & Technology, University of Michigan-Flint, Michigan, US · School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University, Goyang, South Korea

  16. LHSDet: High-Resolution AI-Generated Image Detection via Visual Question Answering

    Aug 8, 2026Qian Yao, Jun-Jie Huang, Yongjun Wang +1Ai-Generated Image DetectionHigh-Resolution

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Academy of Military Science, Beijing 100091, China

  17. Challenges in Evaluating Explanation Methods for Static and Evolving Data

    Aug 6, 2026Jerzy StefanowskiExplainable Artificial IntelligenceExplainable AI Methods

    Poznan University of Technology, Institute of Computing Sciences, Poland

  18. Unleashing the Potential of Vision-Language Models for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

    Aug 5, 2026Weihan Cai, Hao Tan, Zichang Tan +2Ai-Generated Image DetectionVision Encoders

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · Sangfor Technologies Inc., Shenzhen 518055, China +1

  19. Grounding and Explaining Visual Evidence for AI-Generated Image Detection in Human-Centric Scenes

    Aug 3, 2026Kun Guo, Yuzhou Yang, Haoyue Wang +3Ai-Generated Image DetectionAuthenticity

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University · NVIDIA

  20. A Benchmark Dataset for MLLM-Generated Image Detection: GPT Image2 & Nano Banana2

    Aug 2, 2026Zirui Zhang, Yinbo Yu, Donghai Guan +3Ai-Generated Image DetectionImage Generation

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China · College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

  21. Test-Time Curriculum for Open-Set AIGC Detection

    Aug 1, 2026Yiqian Zhang, Zheyuan Gu, Xiangzhao Hao +8Ai-Generated Image DetectionAi-Generated Content Detection

    Hangzhou Dianzi University · ERNIE Team, Baidu Inc. · Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

  22. Explaining AI-Image Detection: What the Heatmap Actually Shows

    Jul 31, 2026Leonid Kuturin, Ilya Sotnikov, Mark Khusnutdinov +4Ai-Generated Image DetectionHeatmap

    Sirius Educational Centre, Big Challenges programme · HSE University, Faculty of Computer Science

  23. RAID: Towards Robust AI-Generated Image Detection with Bit-Reversed Images

    Jul 31, 2026Renxi Cheng, Jie Gui, Hongsong WangAi-Generated Image DetectionData Generation

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 210000, China · Engineering Research Center of Blockchain Application, Supervision And Management (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, China +2

  24. Can Vision-Language Models Reason about AI Edits in Images?

    Jul 30, 2026Darsha Udayanga, Pin-Yu Chen, Payel Das +1Ai-Generated Image DetectionReasoning Skills

    1Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · 2IBM Research

  25. DECODE: Tackling Representation and Decision Degradation in Continual AI-Generated Image Detection

    Jul 30, 2026Zihao Cai, Xinghan Li, Ruiyan Yang +3Ai-Generated Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Visual Laboratory of Fudan University, College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China · CEC GienTech Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China

  26. Veritas++: Value-aware On-Policy Distillation for Perception-Enhanced AIGI Detection

    Jul 29, 2026Hao Tan, Jun Lan, Zichang Tan +7Ai-Generated Image DetectionVisual Evidence

    School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing 101408, China, and also with the State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems (MAIS), Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), Beijing 100190, China · State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems (MAIS), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), Beijing 100190, China · Ant Group +2

  27. VETO: Towards Protecting Images From Frontier AI Editing

    Jul 29, 2026Jonas Grebe, Hossein Shakibania, Tobias Braun +2Ai-Generated Image DetectionLLM Defense Mechanisms

    TU Darmstadt & hessian.AI, Germany · Zuse School ELIZA

  28. DailyBench: A Unified Benchmark for AI-Generated and Manipulated Images from Modern Generative Models

    Jul 27, 2026Xin Jiang, Hao Tang, Junyao Gao +4Ai-Generated Image DetectionGenerative Models

    State Key Laboratory of Communication Content Cognition, People’s Daily Online · Nanyang Technological University · Tongji University +3

  29. FAIR: Feature-Augmented Implicit Regularization for AI-generated Fake Image Detection

    Jul 24, 2026Md Redwanul Haque, Manzur Murshed, Manoranjan Paul +1Ai-Generated Image DetectionDomain Invariance

    Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia · Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia

  30. AI-generated Images Challenge Visual Trust in High-risk Scenarios

    Jul 23, 2026Yi-Zhi Wang, Yichen Xiao, Linan Yue +5Ai-Generated Image DetectionImage Generation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University · 2Key Laboratory of Computer Network and Information Integration (Southeast University), Ministry of Education · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University +1

  31. Simple Domain Generalization for Strong Pixel-Level Image Tampering Detection in Modern VLMs

    Jul 20, 2026Yi Tang, Xinyi Shang, Jiacheng Cui +12Ai-Generated Image DetectionMultimodal Domain Generalization

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University College London · Weizmann Institute of Science

  32. GlobalForge: Towards Robust AI-Generated Image Detection

    Jul 16, 2026Manni Cui, Ruiqi Liu, Dianyuan Zou +8Ai-Generated Image DetectionDegradation

    1Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Jilin University +1

  33. Detecting AI-Generated Video: A Vision-Language Dual-View Survey

    Jul 12, 2026Dylan Xinming Hou, Juntian Zhang, Xu Gu +5Ai-Generated Video DetectionAi-Generated Image Detection

    MBZUAI · Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · Harvard University

  34. Do Transformations Reveal the Truth? Generative Residual Learning for Generalized AI-Generated Image Detection

    Jul 9, 2026Kutub Uddin, Nusrat Tasnim, Awais Khan +2Ai-Generated Image DetectionDeepfake Detection

    University of Michigan Flint, Michigan, USA · Korea Aerospace University Goyang, South Korea

  35. Generalized Synthetic Image Detection with Enhanced RGB-Noise Representation Learning

    Jul 7, 2026Zhen Li, Gang Cao, Tian Zhang +2Synthetic Image DetectionAi-Generated Image Detection

    School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100024, China · School of Information Engineering, Changsha Medical University, Changsha, 410219, China · Department of Information Engineering, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing, 100026, China +1

  36. VendorBench-100: A Unified Cross-Paradigm Benchmark for Deepfake Image Detection

    Jul 7, 2026Sharayu N. Deshmukh, Md Rashidunnabi, Nelton Tiago Gemo +3Deepfake DetectionAi-Generated Image Detection

    Universidade da Beira Interior Covilha, Portugal · Department of Computer Science Shri Guru Buddhi Swami College Purna, India · School of Computational Science Swami Ramanand Tirtha Marathwada University Nanded, India

  37. Ghosts Beneath Textures: Texture-Relation Cues for Cross-Paradigm AI-Generated Image Detection

    Jul 4, 2026Haoyu Wang, Yiming Qin, Zhongjie Ba +4Ai-Generated Image DetectionImage Generation

    State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University · Alibaba Group

  38. Fleet: Few Shots Lead Effective AI-generated Image Detection

    Jun 30, 2026Jiaan Wang, Sirui Liu, Yu Li +3Ai-Generated Image Detection

    Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, China.

  39. Generative AI Literacy Training Improves Intelligence Analysts' Discrimination of Real and AI-Generated Images

    Jun 26, 2026Negar Kamali, Candice Rockell Gerstner, Jessica Hullman +1Ai-Generated Image DetectionDeepfake Detection

    Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University · Ryan Institute on Complexity, Northwestern University · Research Directorate and AI Security Center, National Security Agency +1

  40. TruEye: Fine-Grained Detection of AI-Generated Human Subjects in Images

    Jun 25, 2026Jay Barot, Dan LinAi-Generated Image DetectionFine-Grained Perception

    Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USA

  41. Perception, Verdict, and Evolution: Hindsight-Driven Self-Refining Forensics Agent for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Jun 25, 2026Yangjun Wu, Keyu Yan, Yu Liu +5Ai-Generated Image DetectionDeepfake Detection

    Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China · Alibaba Group

  42. Data Provenance for Image Auto-Regressive Generation

    Jun 22, 2026Bihe Zhao, Louis Kerner, Michel Meintz +3Autoregressive Image GenerationAi-Generated Image Detection

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  43. SAGE: An Expert-Annotated South Asian GI Endoscopy Dataset for Multimodal Learning and Hallucination Analysis

    Jun 20, 2026Niyoj Oli, Sachin Acharya, Sandesh Pokhrel +7Colorectal CancerColonoscopy

    Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for Research, Nepal · University of Utah, USA · GastroIntestinal Department, Dhulikhel Hospital, Nepal +3

  44. How Fragile Are Training-Free AI-Generated Image Detectors? A Controlled Audit of Score Direction, Preprocessing, and Compression

    Jun 18, 2026Jingwen Zhou, Mingzhe WangAi-Generated Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Xidian University, Xi’an, China

  45. A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Text-Rich Images from GPT-Image-2

    Jun 17, 2026Yijin Wang, Shuyi Wang, Wenhan Zhang +1Ai-Generated Image DetectionImage Generation

    College of Computer Science Sichuan University

  46. SalArt-VQA: Diagnosing Whether VLMs Understand Salient Artifacts in Generated Images

    Jun 10, 2026Ruotian Zhang, Xiaoxiao Sun, Junzhe Huang +2Ai-Generated Image DetectionTextvqa

    Zhejiang University · The University of Queensland

  47. Dissect and Prune: Enhancing Robustness in AI-Generated Image Detection

    Jun 9, 2026Dahye Kim, Jaehyun Choi, Hyun Seok Seong +4Ai-Generated Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Korea AI Safety Institute (AISI), ETRI, Seongnam, South Korea · Department of Artificial Intelligence, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

  48. CHROMA: Detecting AI-Generated Images through Inter-Channel Color-Space Correlations

    Jun 7, 2026Juan Pablo Sotelo, Marina Gardella, Pablo MuséAi-Generated Image DetectionImage Generation

    Instituto de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay · Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190 France

  49. SSAFE: Simple and Strong AI-Generated Image Detection via Frozen Vision Encoders

    Jun 7, 2026Seunghyun Lee, Byoungkwon Kim, Jaehyun Nam +2Ai-Generated Image DetectionDeepfake Detection

    1KAIST · † Work done at KAIST. · 2Google Cloud AI

  50. ForensicConcept: Transferable Forensic Concepts for AIGI Detection

    Jun 5, 2026Menyanshu Zhou, Ziyin Zhou, Ke Sun +4Ai-Generated Image DetectionDigital Forensics

    Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R.China · Sino-Russian Research Center for Digital Economy

  51. DRIFT: From Robustness Gaps to Invariance Manifolds for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Jun 5, 2026Abhishek Ameta, Sayan Banerjee, Shreyas Pandith +4Ai-Generated Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore, India

  52. TextFake: Benchmarking AI-Generated Image Detection on Text-Rich Images

    May 31, 2026Yuning Zhang, Changtao Miao, Mingyu Liao +5Ai-Generated Image DetectionForgeries

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China · Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Digital Security · Individual Researcher

  53. Images as Tables: In-Context Learning with TabPFN for Low-Data Detection of AI-Generated Images

    May 30, 2026Jan Philip Walter, Shashank Agnihotri, Margret KeuperAi-Generated Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Machine Learning Group, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany · Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany

  54. BIAS-ID: A Framework for Analyzing Transformation Biases in AI-Generated Image Detectors

    May 29, 2026Jonas Ricker, Asja Fischer, Erwin QuiringAi-Generated Image DetectionBiases

    Ruhr University Bochum · Bochum, Germany · _fbeta +1

  55. When Eyes Betray AI: Social Gaze Consistency as a Semantic Cue for AI-Generated Image Detection

    May 26, 2026Jihyeon Kim, Sohee Kim, Soosan Lee +3Ai-Generated Image DetectionGaze Behavior

    School of Computer Engineering Hoseo University · School of Electronic Engineering Soongsil University · School of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  56. Where Detectors Fail: Probing Generative Space for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

    May 24, 2026Zijie Cao, Weijie Tu, Yao Xiao +3Ai-Generated Image DetectionGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China · Australian National University, Canberra, Australia · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China +1

  57. CoDA: Color Distribution Probing for Efficient and Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

    May 23, 2026Zexi Jia, Zhiqiang Yuan, Xiaoyue Duan +3Ai-Generated Image DetectionFake News

    Tencent WeChat AI, Beijing, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  58. Spectral Tail Auxiliary Learning for AI-Generated Image Detection

    May 21, 2026Xingyi Li, Jiahui Zhang, Yiheng Li +2Ai-Generated Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Vast Intelligence Lab, Sydney, Australia

  59. PGC: Peak-Guided Calibration for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

    May 20, 2026Xiaoyu Zhou, Jianwei Fei, Peipeng Yu +3Ai-Generated Image DetectionGenerative Adversarial Network

    College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China · Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy · School of Integrated Circuits, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

  60. Findings of the Counter Turing Test: AI-Generated Image Detection

    May 20, 2026Rajarshi Roy, Nasrin Imanpour, Ashhar Aziz +16Ai-Generated Image DetectionGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    Kalyani Government Engineering College, India. · University of South Carolina, USA. · IIIT Delhi, India. +10