Digital Forensics

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Digital forensics studies how to collect, recover, and interpret evidence from devices, networks, cloud systems, blockchains, and digital media. Methods range from file carving, log and memory analysis, and cryptographic provenance to machine-learning systems that detect, localize, or attribute image, video, audio, and document manipulation. Multimodal models and retrieval-based agents are increasingly used to search evidence and assist investigations, with evaluation spanning forensic benchmarks, cross-domain tests, and open-world settings. A central challenge is making results reliable on unfamiliar data and transformations while ensuring explanations are evidence-grounded, calibrated, auditable, and suitable for legal scrutiny.

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  1. Can Loan Processors and Underwriters Spot AI-Edited Statements? An Empirical Study

    Oct 22, 2026Simiao Ren, Xingyu Shen, Tommy Duong +1Text Forgery DetectionFinancial Fraud Detection

    Scam.ai (Reality Inc.)

  2. Media Intelligence Platform: Multimodal Detection of Synthetic and Manipulated Content

    Oct 20, 2026David Fischinger, Marcel Hasenbalg, Silvia Poletti +7Multimodal Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    Austrian Institute of Technology, Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna - Austria

  3. VESSI - VLM-Enhanced Support for Surveillance and Investigations

    Oct 8, 2026Saverio Cavasin, Pietro Tedeschi, Mattia Tamiazzo +3Video SurveillanceVision-Language Models

    Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy · Innovation & Research Center, CY4GATE S.p.A., part of ELT Group, Rome, Italy · Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy +1

  4. Stop My Dancing! Understanding, Detecting and Attributing Motion-Aware Deepfake Videos

    Oct 8, 2026Fazhong Liu, Yan Meng, Tian Dong +2Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  5. Correct Answers, Unsupported Findings: Evidence Binding in Forensic Reconstruction of LLM Agent Logs

    Oct 7, 2026Taehyeon Yun, Dongho Kim, Geonwoo Kim +3Digital ForensicsData Provenance

    aSungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea

  6. Ariadne's Thread of LipSync: Unraveling Forgeries via Inconsistency between Lip Motions and Head Poses

    Oct 6, 2026Tianyi She, Jiawei Liu, Weifeng Liu +3Digital ForensicsDeepfake Detection

    University of Science and Technology of China, HeFei, China · Shanghai Jiaotong University · Peking University +1

  7. Interpretable Deepfake Detection in Videos via Explicit Forensic Features and Temporal Modeling

    Oct 2, 2026Chahira Benhama, Mohand Saïd Allili, Assia HamadeneVideo ForensicsDeepfake Detection

    LARIVIA laboratory Dep. of Computer science and Eng. University of Quebec in Outaouais Gatineau, QC, Canada · LARIVIA laboratory and Mixed Research Unit INRS-UQO University of Quebec in Outaouais Gatineau, QC, Canada

  8. Team MSU GenText-Forensics Challenge 2026 Technical Report

    Sep 29, 2026Kirill Koltsov, Aleksandr Gushchin, Dmitriy Vatolin +1Image Forgery DetectionDigital Forensics

    Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russia · MSU Institute for Artificial Intelligence Moscow, Russia

  9. Geometric Inconsistency Localization in Multi-View Image Sets

    Sep 25, 2026Xander Staelens, Albéric Loos, Bert Ramlot +3Cross-View Image MatchingVideo Forensics

    IDLab, Ghent University - imec Ghent, Belgium

  10. ManiVid: Unified and Explainable Forensic Analysis of Manipulated Videos

    Sep 25, 2026Hengrui Kang, Zhonghao Yan, Yuxuan Yang +7Video ForensicsDigital Forensics

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications +3

  11. Agents That Edit Documents: Measuring Agentic PDF Forgery Against a Non-Agentic Control

    Sep 20, 2026Simiao Ren, Ankit Raj, Tommy Duong +6LLM Agent SecurityAI Agent Security Benchmarks

    Scam.ai (Reality Inc.)

  12. Tracing the Origins: Legacy Codec Identification in Neural Audio Transcoding

    Sep 14, 2026Wonje Heo, Shinee Youn, Yooshin Kim +2Neural Audio CodecsDigital Forensics

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), DGIST, Republic of Korea · School of Undergraduate Studies, DGIST, Republic of Korea

  13. VeriScene: Reconstructing Crime Scenes from Legal Evidence via World-Model Agent

    Sep 8, 2026Kevin Chuanpu Fu, Yongsen Zheng, Zee Kin Yeong +1Physical Consistency in Video GenerationDigital Forensics

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Singapore Academy of Law, Singapore

  14. EGAMA-RC: Risk-Calibrated Evidence-Gated Adaptive Malware Analysis for Robust and Interpretable Memory-Forensic Triage

    Aug 24, 2026Isaac Kofi NtiMalware AnalysisMalware Detection

    School of Information Technology, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

  15. Discovering Persistent Behavioural Patterns for Interpretable Blockchain Forensics

    Aug 13, 2026Dorottya Zelenyanszki, Zhe Hou, Kamanashis Biswas +1Digital Forensics

    Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, 4111, QLD, Australia · Australian Catholic University, 1100 Nudgee Road, Banyo, 4014, QLD, Australia

  16. Periocular Soft Biometrics: A Survey and Applications to Multimedia Forensics and Disinformation Detection

    Aug 10, 2026Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Kevin Hernandez-Diaz, Josef BigunBiometric IdentificationDigital Forensics

    School of Information Technology (ITE), Halmstad University, Sweden

  17. Evidence-Grounded Forensic Reasoning for Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation

    Aug 8, 2026Yichun Yeh, Yiheng Li, Xiaobo Hu +2Multimodal GroundingDigital Forensics

    MAIS, CASIA; SAI, UCAS · SAI, UCAS; MAIS, CASIA

  18. The Voiceprint Fallacy: Why Voices Are Not Unique Biometric Imprints

    Aug 8, 2026Tianle Yang, Cuiling Zhang, Chengzhe Sun +2Biometric IdentificationSpeaker Verification

    University at Buffalo, Department of Linguistics, Buffalo, NY, United States · Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Institute of Intelligent Justice, Chongqing, China · Southwest University of Political Science and Law, School of Criminal Investigation, Chongqing, China +2

  19. KnifeHunter: Structured Local Representation Learning for Fine-Grained Knife Image Retrieval in Law Enforcement

    Aug 7, 2026Syed Sameed Husain, Eng-Jon Ong, Stephen Simpson +3Fine-Grained Image RetrievalDigital Forensics

    Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford GU27XH, UK · Metropolitan Police UK

  20. AI Forensics Across White-, Grey-, and Black-Box Access: A Process Model and Research Agenda for Post-Incident Investigation of AI Systems

    Aug 4, 2026Ali Dehghantanha, Sajad HomayounDigital Forensics

    Cyber Science Lab, University of Guelph, Canada · Cyber Security Group, Dept. of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark

  21. PCAP-LM: An LLM-Native Text Representation for TLS Bulk Traffic Analysis

    Jul 30, 2026Xavier Marjou, Lucas Tamic, Ilan Jaffeux-ChenioutEncrypted Network Traffic AnalysisCybersecurity

    Orange

  22. SecRespond: Benchmarking AI Agents for Real-World Post-Compromise Incident Response

    Jul 29, 2026Lehan Wang, Boli Chen, Ruixue Ding +7LLM Agent EvaluationCybersecurity

    Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group · Alibaba Cloud Computing, Alibaba Group · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  23. AI Watermark Evidence Fails Forensic Readiness: An Empirical Evaluation

    Jul 17, 2026Saifur Rahman Tamim, Amir Labib KhanWatermark RemovalText Watermarking

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Northern University Bangladesh

  24. The Third Competition on Document Forgery Detection on ID-Cards and Passports

    Jul 17, 2026Juan E. Tapia, Mario Nieto, Juan M. Espin +4Image Forgery DetectionDigital Forensics

    1Hochschule Darmstadt (h-da), da/sec-Biometrics and Internet Security Research, Germany · 2Facephi Biometrics, Spain · 3Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Darmstadt, Germany +1

  25. Normalisation-Based Likelihood Ratio Estimation for Forensic Authorship Verification

    Jul 10, 2026Sadie Barlow, Andrea Nini, Edoardo ManinoDigital ForensicsAuthorship Attribution

    The University of Manchester, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL · The University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL

  26. Verification of Dynamic Holographic Behavior in Identity Documents

    Jul 7, 2026Glen Pouliquen, Joseph Chazalon, Guillaume Chiron +2Image Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics

    IDnow Research Center, France · EPITA Research Lab · IDnow Research Center, Cesson-Sévigné, France +1

  27. EVAS: Efficient Multimodal Temporal Forgery Localization via Audio-Visual Synergy and Steered Boundary Calibration

    Jul 5, 2026Shen Shen, Quan Zhang, Dan Jiang +1Audio-Visual Representation LearningDigital Forensics

    Soochow University · Tsinghua University

  28. Abductive Corroboration of Probabilistic AI Models for Forensic Synthetic Media Detection

    Jul 3, 2026Junade AliAI-Assisted Decision MakingAbductive Reasoning

    The Alan Turing Institute Defence and National Security Programme London, United Kingdom

  29. CHARLIE: An On-Premise Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Evidential Reasoning in Forensic Science

    Jul 1, 2026Leandro D. Carneiro, Andre L. S. Meirelles, Juliano de A. Gomes +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsDigital Forensics

    Forensic Institute, Civil Police of Federal District, Brazil · University of Brasília, Brazil

  30. Forensic-Oriented Intrusion Detection Using Synthetic Network Traffic Data and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

    Jul 1, 2026Jose Luis Vela Alonso, Carmen PellicerSynthetic Data GenerationNetwork Intrusion Detection

    CESTE, University Center, Zaragoza, Spain