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  1. Revisiting Cross-Reconstruction for Generalizable Deepfake Detection

    Oct 1, 2026Bingjian Yang, Shilei Zhao, Zheng WangFace Forgery DetectionDeepfake Detection

    National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China

  2. SEAR: Spoofing Evidence-Grounded Audio Reasoning Benchmark for Audio Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Rong Wan, Suliu Qin, Jiaxi Li +5Audio Deepfake DetectionSpoofing

    University of Surrey · Singapore University of Technology and Design · Guangxi University +1

  3. SE-ADD: Self-Evolving Audio Deepfake Detection with Mistake-Driven Supervision

    Sep 30, 2026Rong Wan, Wei Xie, Jiaxi Li +4Environmental Sound Deepfake DetectionAudio Understanding

    University of Surrey · Guangxi University · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology +1

  4. A Generalizable and Explainable Framework for Synthetic Video Detection Using First-Digit Gradient Statistics

    Sep 30, 2026Sidharth Shanu, Gautam Kumar, Tej SinghAi-Generated Video DetectionDigital Forensics

    B.Tech CSE IIT Jodhpur, India · School of Automation & Robotics GGSIPU, New Delhi, India · Centre for Artificial Intelligence MITS Gwalior, India

  5. Agentic Tool-Augmented Reasoning for Explainable Image Forgery Detection

    Sep 30, 2026Zhiya Tan, Jing Huang, Changtao Miao +5Face Forgery DetectionDigital Forensics

    CCDS Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore · Ant Digital Technologies Ant Group Singapore, Singapore · Ant Digital Technologies Ant Group Hangzhou, China +3

  6. Less Supervision, Better Generalization: Weakly Supervised Fake Region Localization in Diffusion-Edited Images

    Sep 29, 2026Junhee Lee, Donghyeon Jeon, Taeoh Kim +2Diffusion-Based Image EditingFace Forgery Detection

    Kyung Hee University · NAVER Cloud

  7. ModalFidelity: Routing Modalities for Deepfake Detection on a Budget

    Sep 29, 2026Oguzhan Baser, Kaan Kale, Sriram Vishwanath +1Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  8. 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

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

    Sep 28, 2026Kaiqing Lin, Songze Li, Shen Chen +8Tamper LocalizationDigital 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 · Tencent Youtu Lab, Shanghai, China

  10. Hard Stop: Kernel-Level Preemption and Containment for Rogue Agentic Execution

    Sep 24, 2026José Luis PinoIncident ResponseCyberattacks

    Independent Researcher Westlake Village, CA, USA

  11. WST-Graph: Topology-Preserving Wavelet Scattering Front-End for Speech Deepfake Detection

    Sep 24, 2026Kwok-Ho Ng, Tingting Song, Bingwen Feng +1Audio Deepfake DetectionWav2Vec

    College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

  12. Controlled Attribute-Specific Summarization of Interrogative Dialogues

    Sep 23, 2026A Aditya Bhardwaj, Arjit Singh Arora, Md Shad AkhtarSummarizationDigital Forensics

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT Delhi, New Delhi, 110020, Delhi, India

  13. Sex Estimation from Footwear Outsole Impressions Using CNN Transfer Learning and Interpretable Image Statistics

    Sep 21, 2026Jinyi Niu, Ziyi Song, Weining ShenImage ClassificationFeet

    School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University Shanghai 200433, China · Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-1250, USA

  14. Dissecting Agentic Forensics: The Role of Triage, Prompting, and Evidence Arbitration in Open-World Fake Image Detection

    Sep 21, 2026Xianlong Li, Pietro Bongini, Niccoló Pancino +3Multimedia ForensicsDigital Forensics

    IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy · University of Siena, Italy

  15. BodyCam-VQA: Enhanced Body-Worn Camera Video Captioning via Multimodal Reasoning and Probe Question Generation

    Sep 11, 2026Karish Gupta, Matthew Alex, Alex Li +6PolicingVideo Surveillance

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA · Axon, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

  16. VidForensics-M1: Meta-Detection Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Temporal Grounding for AI-Generated Video Forensics

    Aug 11, 2026Bowei Liu, Zheng Lu, Yuhan Bian +8Ai-Generated Video DetectionForgeries

    Tsinghua University · Peking University · Renmin University of China +1

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

    Aug 8, 2026Yichun Yeh, Yiheng Li, Xiaobo Hu +2Fake News DetectionMultimodal Reasoning

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

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

    Aug 7, 2026Syed Sameed Husain, Eng-Jon Ong, Stephen Simpson +3Digital ForensicsComposed Image Retrieval

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

  19. 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 HomayounArtificial Intelligence RiskIncident Response

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

  20. V-FIND: Revealing the Intrinsic Forgery Knowledge Encoded in Video Forgery Detectors

    Aug 4, 2026Shichao Kan, Chengpeng Hong, Jingtong Dou +8Face Forgery DetectionAi-Generated Video Detection

    Central South University · The University of Sydney · NExT++ Research Centre, National University of Singapore

  21. AdaForensics: Learning A Characteristic-aware Adaptive Deepfake Detector

    Aug 3, 2026Xiaoke Yang, Haixu Song, Xiangyu Lu +2Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China · Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  22. FairForensics: Seeing Expressions and Parsing Demographics via Vision-Language Modeling for Generalizable Fair Deepfake Detection

    Aug 3, 2026Yaning Zhang, Jiao Wu, Zan Gao +1Deepfake DetectionFace Forgery Detection

    Computer Vision Institute, School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China · Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, 250014, China · Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and System, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China +2

  23. The K-Space Signature: Frequency-Domain Representation Learning for Medical Deepfake Detection

    Jul 31, 2026Riccardo Raciti, Francesco Guarnera, Francesco Rundo +2Deepfake DetectionMedical Image Generation

    University of Catania

  24. 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

  25. FakeIDet3-DB: Refining Digital Attacks and Patch Extraction for Secure ID Benchmarking

    Jul 29, 2026Muñoz-Haro Javier, Teruel Andres, Tolosana Ruben +4Digital ForensicsAnonymization

    School of Engineering, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

  26. EgoSafe: A First-Person Mobile-Captured Benchmark for Visual Safety Understanding

    Jul 29, 2026Yuyun Chen, Tianao Li, TianQuan Feng +4Recent Vision-Language ModelsSafer

    South China University of Technology · Beihang University

  27. LaP-Forensics: Latent-Pixel Consistency Guided Multimodal Reasoning for Deepfake Detection

    Jul 28, 2026Can Wang, Yuhao Wang, Yushe Cao +2Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · University College London · Tsinghua University +2

  28. TIGA: Trajectory-Injected Generative Attack against Black-box AIGC Detectors

    Jul 28, 2026Xia Du, Zhuosen Bao, Zheng Lin +4Ai-Generated Content DetectionBlack-Box Adversarial Attacks

    School of Computer and Information Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, 361000, China · Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, L-1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg · School of Computer Science, Engineering Research Center of Machine Learning and Industry Intelligence, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 610020, China +2

  29. Physiological Signals as a Forensic Modality for Talking-Face Deepfake Detection

    Jul 23, 2026Othmane Harraq, Tamer AldwairiDeepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    Temple University

  30. When 2D Cues Fail: Improving Image Manipulation Localization with Reliable 3D Geometry

    Jul 20, 2026Guofeng Yu, Zhiqing Guo, Dan Ma +1Geometric Cues3D Geometry

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xinjiang University Urumqi, China · College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University, Changsha, China

  31. Quantifying Diversity of Thought: A Predictive Law of Weighted LLM Ensemble Lift

    Jul 19, 2026Junade AliEnsembleDiversity

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

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

    Jul 17, 2026Saifur Rahman Tamim, Amir Labib KhanLarge Language Model WatermarksWatermarks

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Northern University Bangladesh

  33. DNA: Dual-stage Native Attribution for Generated Image Source Tracing

    Jul 15, 2026Chao Wang, Kejiang Chen, Zijin Yang +4Digital ForensicsScreening

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China

  34. Continuously Evolving Deepfake Detection: An Architecture and Public-Benchmark Evaluation of a Dynamic Detection System

    Jul 14, 2026Ken Jon Miyachi, Dylan UysDeepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    BitMind

  35. Watermark Forensics for Generative Models: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

    Jul 14, 2026Xiaoyu Li, Zheng Gao, Xiaoyan Feng +3WatermarksMulti-Bit Watermarking

    University of New South Wales · 2Griffith University

  36. When is the combined load identifiable from a stress-intensity profile? A coupled forward-inverse study on SIFBench finite-element data

    Jul 12, 2026Giansalvo Cirrincione, Filippo GrassiaInverse ProblemFinite Element Method

    Laboratory of Innovative Technologies (LTI, EA 3899), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, 80025, France

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

    Jul 10, 2026Sadie Barlow, Andrea Nini, Edoardo ManinoAuthorshipDigital Forensics

    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

  38. Beware What You Autocomplete: Forensic Attribution of Backdoored Code Completions

    Jul 9, 2026Anjun Gao, Yueyang Quan, Zhuqing Liu +1Clean Label Backdoor AttackVulnerable Code

    University of Louisville · University of North Texas

  39. Retroactive Chain-of-Thought (RetroCoT): Forensic Reconstruction Prompts as a Safety Diagnostic Across Model Generations

    Jul 6, 2026Samira HajizadehLarge Language Model SafetyChain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science Columbia University New York, NY, USA

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

    Jul 5, 2026Shen Shen, Quan Zhang, Dan Jiang +1Face Forgery DetectionVideo Temporal Grounding

    Soochow University · Tsinghua University

  41. 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

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

    Jul 3, 2026Junade AliSynthetic Image DetectionDigital Forensics

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

  43. SafeGuard: A Multi-Agent Perception-Reasoning Framework for Social-Risk AI-Generated Video Detection

    Jul 3, 2026Wenlin Wu, Sheng Zhou, Peipei Song +3Ai-Generated Video DetectionDigital Forensics

    University of Science and Technology of China · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Vast Intelligence Lab

  44. 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 +1Digital ForensicsAgentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

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

  45. Retrieval Observability Bounds on Provenance Detection for Agent Memory Poisoning: Measured Coverage and a Falsified Standalone Detector

    Jun 29, 2026Jun Wen LeongPoisoningIndirect Prompt Injection

  46. Defeat Devices in AI Systems

    Jun 27, 2026Emilio FerraraArtificial Intelligence SafetyArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science University of Southern California

  47. 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

  48. What Do Deepfake Benchmarks Measure? An Audit Using Frozen Self-Supervised Representations

    Jun 24, 2026Samuel Pagon, Yixuan Shen, Vishal Asnani +1Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    Department of Computer Science, Drexel University · Adobe Research

  49. Model Forensics: Investigating Whether Concerning Behavior Reflects Misalignment

    Jun 24, 2026Aditya Singh, Gerson Kroiz, Senthooran Rajamanoharan +1Agent Behavior ModelingDigital Forensics

    MATS · Google DeepMind

  50. ForensicsTok: Forensics-Guided Tokenized Modeling for Image Tampering Localization

    Jun 23, 2026Lei Xu, Haowei Wang, Shen Chen +3Mask2FormerDigital Forensics

    1Shenzhen University · 2Tencent Youtu Lab

  51. Trustworthy Image Authentication using Forensic Knowledge Graphs

    Jun 22, 2026Tai D. Nguyen, Matthew C. StammDigital ForensicsKnowledge Graphs

    Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  52. SEED: Simple ViT and Evolving Harness for Explainable Text Forgery Detection

    Jun 19, 2026Kahim Wong, Kemou Li, Yiming Chen +2Face Forgery DetectionDigital Forensics

    State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau · School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  53. GRIDEX: Grid-Grounded Forensic Explanations for Deepfake Spectrogram Analysis

    Jun 17, 2026Thi Ngan Ha Do, Tingmin Wu, Alsharif Abuadbba +1Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    CSIRO, Australia

  54. Forged Calamity: Benchmark for Cross-Domain Synthetic Disaster Detection in the Age of Diffusion

    Jun 17, 2026Duc-Manh Phan, Quoc-Duy Tran, Duy-Khang Do +9Synthetic Image DetectionText-To-Image Diffusion Models

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · University of Information technology, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam +2

  55. Deep Residual Injection for Full-Spectrum Forensic Signal Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jun 14, 2026Kaiqing Lin, Zhiyuan Yan, Ruoxin Chen +8Digital ForensicsMultimodal Large Language Models

    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 · Tencent Youtu Lab · Peking University +1

  56. A Multi-Domain Feature Fusion Framework for Generalizable Deepfake Detection Across Different Generators

    Jun 12, 2026Amna Amjid, Sana Qadir, Mehwish Fatima +1Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan · Department of Communication, Quality Management and Information Systems, Mid Sweden University, Ostersund Campus, Sweden · Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.

  57. Bridging the Modality Gap in Forensic Image Retrieval

    Jun 10, 2026Ricardo González-Gazapo, Annette Morales-González, Yoanna Martínez-Díaz +2Multimodal RetrievalMultimedia Forensics

    Advanced Technologies Application Center (CENATAV), Havana, Cuba · Centro de Sistemas Complejos, Facultad de Física, Universidad de La Habana, Havana, Cuba

  58. 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

  59. Sample-Efficient LLM-Based Detection of Malicious Web Server Logs with Forensically Explainable Reasoning

    Jun 7, 2026Bernhard Kneip, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Hong-Hanh Nguyen-LeDigital ForensicsThreat Detection

  60. 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