Digital Image Forensics

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Digital image forensics asks whether images are authentic, how they were altered, where edits occurred, and sometimes which tool or source produced them. Methods examine noise, frequency, compression, and other pixel-level traces, often combining them with semantic features from deep networks or vision-language models; related work uses watermarks and steganalysis for authentication and hidden-data detection. Current systems increasingly aim to handle diverse images and tasks, including documents, video, and synthetic-media localization, with explainable evidence rather than only a real-or-fake score. A central challenge is generalizing across generators, editing pipelines, image domains, and post-processing, while avoiding misleading benchmark shortcuts and making calibrated claims about authenticity.

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113 papers10 papers in the last four weeks, down 33% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Semantic Manipulation Localization

    Apr 11, 2026Zhenshan Tan, Chenhan Lu, Yuxiang Huang +6Image Forgery LocalizationDigital Image Forensics

    Engineering Research Center of Digital Forensics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, and KOKONI3D, Moxin (Hangzhou) Technology Company Ltd., Hangzhou 310027, China

  2. SciFigDetect: A Benchmark for AI-Generated Scientific Figure Detection

    Apr 9, 2026You Hu, Chenzhuo Zhao, Changfa Mo +2AI-Generated Image DetectionDigital Image Forensics

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Independent Researcher, Beijing, China · University of Oulu, Oulu, FINLAND

  3. SurFITR: A Dataset for Surveillance Image Forgery Detection and Localisation

    Apr 8, 2026Qizhou Wang, Guansong Pang, Christopher LeckieImage Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics

    The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia · Singapore Management University, Singapore

  4. DocShield: Towards AI Document Safety via Evidence-Grounded Agentic Reasoning

    Apr 3, 2026Fanwei Zeng, Changtao Miao, Jing Huang +8Text Forgery DetectionImage Forgery Detection

    Ant Group · Nanyang Technological University · CFAR and IHPC, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

  5. TGIF2: Extended Text-Guided Inpainting Forgery Dataset & Benchmark

    Mar 30, 2026Hannes Mareen, Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Paschalis Giakoumoglou +3Digital Image ForensicsImage Forgery Localization

    IDLab, Ghent University – imec, Gent, Belgium. · Information Technologies Institute, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.

  6. AI-Powered Facial Mask Removal Is Not Suitable For Identification

    Mar 29, 2026Emily A Cooper, Hany FaridDigital Image ForensicsFace Recognition

    Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science University of California, Berkeley · School of Information University of California, Berkeley

  7. Beyond Semantic Priors: Mitigating Optimization Collapse for Generalizable Visual Forensics

    Mar 25, 2026Jipeng Liu, Haichao Shi, Siyu Xing +2Deepfake DetectionDigital Image Forensics

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100193, China · School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  8. AgentFoX: LLM Agent-Guided Fusion with eXplainability for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Mar 24, 2026Yangxin Yu, Yue Zhou, Bin Li +4Explainable Artificial IntelligenceDigital Image Forensics

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Media Security, and SZU-AFS Joint Innovation Center for AI Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China · School of Cyber Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, China · Smart City Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Shenzhen, China

  9. Rel-Zero: Harnessing Patch-Pair Invariance for Robust Zero-Watermarking Against AI Editing

    Mar 18, 2026Pengzhen Chen, Yanwei Liu, Xiaoyan Gu +3Robust WatermarkingDigital Image Forensics

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · State Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Defense +1

  10. GPT4o-Receipt: A Dataset and Human Study for AI-Generated Document Forensics

    Mar 12, 2026Yan Zhang, Simiao Ren, Ankit Raj +6Digital Image ForensicsAI-Generated Text Detection

  11. Diffusion-Based Authentication of Copy Detection Patterns: A Multimodal Framework with Printer Signature Conditioning

    Mar 9, 2026Bolutife Atoki, Iuliia Tkachenko, Bertrand Kerautret +1Digital Image ForensicsImage Forgery Detection

    Universit´e Lumi`ere Lyon 2, CNRS, INSA Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LIRIS UMR5205, 69007 Lyon, France

  12. Deepfake Forensics Adapter: A Dual-Stream Network for Generalizable Deepfake Detection

    Mar 2, 2026Jianfeng Liao, Yichen Wei, Raymond Chan Ching Bon +3Deepfake DetectionDigital Image Forensics

    Shenzhen Technology University, Guangdong, China · Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore, Singapore · The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China +1

  13. DOCFORGE-BENCH: A Comprehensive 0-shot Benchmark for Document Forgery Detection and Analysis

    Mar 2, 2026Zengqi Zhao, Weidi Xia, En Wei +7Text Forgery DetectionDigital Forensics

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · University of California, Irvine · Washington University in St. Louis +4

  14. All in One: Unifying Deepfake Detection, Tampering Localization, and Source Tracing with a Robust Landmark-Identity Watermark

    Feb 26, 2026Junjiang Wu, Liejun Wang, Zhiqing GuoDigital Image ForensicsDigital Forensics

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China · Xinjiang Multimodal Intelligent Processing and Information Security Engineering Technology Research Center, Urumqi, China

  15. AIForge-Doc: A Benchmark for Detecting AI-Forged Tampering in Financial and Form Documents

    Feb 24, 2026Jiaqi Wu, Yuchen Zhou, Muduo Xu +6Text Forgery DetectionImage Forgery Detection

    Duke University · New York University · University of North Carolina +1

  16. FOCA: Frequency-Oriented Cross-Domain Forgery Detection, Localization and Explanation via Multi-Modal Large Language Model

    Feb 21, 2026Zhou Liu, Tonghua Su, Hongshi Zhang +4Image Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · DZ-Matrix · Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), Shenzhen, China +2

  17. Detecting AI-Generated Forgeries via Iterative Manifold Deviation Amplification

    Feb 21, 2026Jiangling Zhang, Shuxuan Gao, Bofan Liu +4Image Forgery LocalizationDigital Image Forensics

    1Wuhan University of Technology

  18. NewsRECON: News Article Retrieval for Image Contextualization

    Jan 20, 2026Jonathan Tonglet, Iryna Gurevych, Tinne Tuytelaars +1Multimodal IRDigital Image Forensics

    Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE · Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven · Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven

  19. Evaluating Deep Learning and Traditional Approaches Used in Source Camera Identification

    Nov 24, 2025Mansur OzamanDigital Image Forensics

    Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Science and Mathematics in Medeu District of Almaty

  20. UniShield: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Unified Forgery Image Detection and Localization

    Oct 3, 2025Qing Huang, Zhipei Xu, Xuanyu Zhang +2Image Forgery DetectionAdaptive Model Routing

    School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology · School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University · School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology +1

  21. Learning Universal Features for Generalizable Image Forgery Localization

    Apr 10, 2025Hengrun Zhao, Yunzhi Zhuge, Yifan Wang +3Image Forgery DetectionImage Forgery Localization

    Dalian University of Technology · Johns Hopkins University

  22. Fully AI-Generated Image Detection: Definition, Recent Advances and Challenges

    Feb 27, 2025Qijie Xu, Can Wang, Jiawei Chen +2Digital Image ForensicsAI-Generated Image Detection

    State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. · Hangzhou High-Tech Zone (Binjiang) Institute of Blockchain and Data Security, Hangzhou, China. · Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.

  23. Copy-Move Forgery Detection and Question Answering for Remote Sensing Image

    Dec 3, 2024Ze Zhang, Enyuan Zhao, Di Niu +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingImage Forgery Detection

    Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China