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  1. The Latent That Never Was: A Forensic Re-run of the CVAE Ablation in Action Chunking Transformers

    Sep 15, 2026Bo KangLatent ActionsVariational Autoencoder

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

    Sep 11, 2026Karish Gupta, Matthew Alex, Alex Li +6PolicingTextvqa

  3. Agent Flight Recorder: Tamper-Evident Audit Trails with On-Chain Anchoring for Long-Horizon Tool-Using Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Laurent Bindschaedler, Quentin Botha, Christoph SiebenbrunnerAction TracesIncident Response

  4. Mind the Rift: Cross-Scale Coupling Mismatch for AI-Generated Video Detection

    Sep 1, 2026Siyu Li, Jin Yang, Weiheng LiangDigital ForensicsMismatch

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

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

  6. 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 ForensicsMultimedia Forensics

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

    Aug 4, 2026Shichao Kan, Chengpeng Hong, Jingtong Dou +8Face Forgery DetectionForgeries

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

    Aug 3, 2026Xiaoke Yang, Haixu Song, Xiangyu Lu +2Explainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Jul 29, 2026Yuyun Chen, Tianao Li, TianQuan Feng +4Large Vision Language ModelsSafeguard

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

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

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

    Jul 28, 2026Xia Du, Zhuosen Bao, Zheng Lin +4Digital ForensicsAdversarial Examples

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

    Jul 19, 2026Junade AliEnsembleDiversity

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

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

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

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

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

    Jul 14, 2026Ken Jon Miyachi, Dylan UysExplainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

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

    Jul 14, 2026Xiaoyu Li, Zheng Gao, Xiaoyan Feng +3WatermarkingWatermarks

  21. 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

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

    Jul 9, 2026Anjun Gao, Yueyang Quan, Zhuqing Liu +1Backdoor AttacksCode Completion

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

    Jul 6, 2026Samira HajizadehLarge Language Model SafetyEfficient Chain-Of-Thought Reasoning

  24. 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

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

    Jul 3, 2026Junade AliSynthetic Image DetectionDigital Forensics

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

    Jul 3, 2026Wenlin Wu, Sheng Zhou, Peipei Song +3Video Anomaly UnderstandingFine-Grained Video Understanding

  27. 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 ForensicsMultimedia Forensics

  28. Forensic Trajectory Signatures for Agent Memory Poisoning Detection

    Jun 29, 2026Jun Wen LeongDigital ForensicsTask-Relevant Evidence

  29. Defeat Devices in AI Systems

    Jun 27, 2026Emilio FerraraArtificial Intelligence SafetyArtificial Intelligence Systems

  30. 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

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

    Jun 24, 2026Samuel Pagon, Yixuan Shen, Vishal Asnani +1Explainable Deepfake DetectionAudio Deepfake Detection

  32. Model Forensics: Investigating Whether Concerning Behavior Reflects Misalignment

    Jun 24, 2026Aditya Singh, Gerson Kroiz, Senthooran Rajamanoharan +1MisalignmentDigital Forensics

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

    Jun 23, 2026Lei Xu, Haowei Wang, Shen Chen +3Face Forgery DetectionDigital Forensics

  34. Trustworthy Image Authentication using Forensic Knowledge Graphs

    Jun 22, 2026Tai D. Nguyen, Matthew C. StammDigital ForensicsAdversarial Examples

  35. Black-Box Forensics for Conversational LLM Agents

    Jun 21, 2026Isadora White, Yasaman Jafari, Taylor Berg-KirkpatrickLarge Language Model AgentsLanguage Model Evasion Attacks

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

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

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

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

  38. 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

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

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

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

    Jun 12, 2026Amna Amjid, Sana Qadir, Mehwish Fatima +1Explainable Deepfake DetectionMultimodal Domain Generalization

  41. Bridging the Modality Gap in Forensic Image Retrieval

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

  42. An Empirical Analysis of Optimization Dynamics and Sparsity Boundaries in Large-Scale Pedestrian Attribute Recognition

    Jun 9, 2026Houssam El MirPedestrian DetectionFocal Loss

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

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

  44. 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 ForensicsMalicious Code

  45. ForensicConcept: Transferable Forensic Concepts for AIGI Detection

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

  46. Characterizing Detectability in 3DGS Poisoning: A Stage-wise Benchmark

    Jun 2, 2026Quoc-Anh Bui-Huynh, Thanh Duc Ngo, Xue Geng +43D Gaussian SplatsPoisoning

  47. Explainable Forensics of Manipulated Segments in Untrimmed Long Videos

    Jun 1, 2026Yue Feng, Jingjing Li, Qijia Lu +9High-Fidelity Video GenerationDigital Forensics

  48. Acting with AI: An Interaction-Based Framework for Agentic Tort Liability

    May 30, 2026Yiheng YaoInteraction TrajectoriesDigital Forensics

  49. Comparative Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Fake Image Detection

    May 20, 2026Akhitha Pakala, Mohammed Mahir Rahman, Shahzad Memon +1Explainable Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

  50. OmniVL-Guard Pro: A Tool-Augmented Agent for Omnibus Vision-Language Forensics

    May 16, 2026Jinjie Shen, Zheng Huang, Yuchen Zhang +7Face Forgery DetectionDigital Forensics

  51. LinAlg-Bench: A Forensic Benchmark Revealing Structural Failure Modes in LLM Mathematical Reasoning

    May 15, 2026Shradha Agarwal, Deepak Rajbhar, Tariq JMathematical ReasoningErrors

  52. GenShield: Unified Detection and Artifact Correction for AI-Generated Images

    May 15, 2026Zhipei Xu, Xuanyu Zhang, Youmin Xu +5Ai-Generated Image DetectionDigital Forensics

  53. FRAME: Forensic Routing and Adaptive Multi-path Evidence Fusion for Image Manipulation Detection

    May 12, 2026Kaixiang Zhao, Tianrun Yu, Aoxu Zhang +3Multimedia ForensicsDigital Forensics

  54. Micro-Defects Expose Macro-Fakes: Detecting AI-Generated Images via Local Distributional Shifts

    May 10, 2026Boxuan Zhang, Jianing Zhu, Qifan Wang +2Ai-Generated Image DetectionDigital Forensics

  55. Exposing and Mitigating Temporal Attack in Deepfake Video Detection

    May 8, 2026Zheyuan Gu, Minghao Shao, Zhen Wang +4Explainable Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

  56. Digital Image Forgery Detection Using Transfer Learning

    May 4, 2026Fatma Betul Buyuk, Gozde Karatas Baydogmus, Ali Buldu +2Face Forgery DetectionDigital Forensics

  57. Block-wise Codeword Embedding for Reliable Multi-bit Text Watermarking

    May 1, 2026Joeun Kim, HoEun Kim, Dongsup Jin +1Large Language Model WatermarksWatermarking

  58. AEGIS: A Holistic Benchmark for Evaluating Forensic Analysis of AI-Generated Academic Images

    Apr 30, 2026Bo Zhang, Tzu-Yen Ma, Zichen Tang +18Multimedia ForensicsDigital Forensics

  59. GIFGuard: Proactive Forensics against Deepfakes in Facial GIFs via Spatiotemporal Watermarking

    Apr 29, 2026Shupeng Che, Zhiqing Guo, Changtao Miao +2Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics

  60. Whether, Which, and Whose: Solving the Triple Challenge of Deepfake Proactive Forensics in Multi-Face Scenarios

    Apr 29, 2026Lei Zhang, Zhiqing Guo, Dan Ma +2Deepfake DetectionDigital Forensics