Overview

Image forgery detection asks whether an image is authentic, what was changed, and where the changes occurred, across settings such as face deepfakes, edited photographs, and forged documents. Methods look for spatial, frequency, noise, and compression artifacts, while newer systems adapt pretrained vision models and multimodal language models to combine forensic cues with semantic reasoning. Benchmarks test image-level classification and pixel-level localization, increasingly across unseen generators, datasets, and realistic degradation. A central challenge is that detectors can rely on dataset shortcuts rather than forgery evidence, so cross-domain robustness, calibrated decisions, and grounded explanations remain open concerns.

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127 papers12 papers in the last four weeks, down 25% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Venus-DefakerOne2: A Vision-Forensics Foundation Model with Broader Coverage

    Oct 27, 2026Chenfan Qu, Yachao Liang, Mingqi Fang +27Image Forgery DetectionDeepfake Detection

  2. Printed and Scanned: Exposing the Fragility of Single-Image Morphing Attack Detectors under Print-Scan Degradation

    Oct 26, 2026Diogo J. Paulo, Hugo Proença, João C. NevesImage Forgery DetectionFace Presentation Attack Detection

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

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

  4. EviStress: Evidence Stress Learning for Generalizable Face Forgery Detection with Textual Explanations

    Oct 12, 2026Jiuyao Jing, Xuanyu Yi, Yu Zheng +1Image Forgery DetectionDeepfake Detection

  5. Does an Illumination Prior Help Face-Swap Detection? A Controlled Study of Temporal Self-Blended Images

    Oct 8, 2026Danil Davydov, Bader Rasheed, Dmitriy VatolinImage Forgery DetectionDeepfake Detection

  6. Forensic Reserve: Eliciting Latent Knowledge for Image Forgery Detection

    Oct 6, 2026Jiahua Li, Zixu John, Tom Zhong +5Image Forgery DetectionVision Foundation Model Adaptation

  7. Revisiting Cross-Reconstruction for Generalizable Deepfake Detection

    Oct 1, 2026Bingjian Yang, Shilei Zhao, Zheng WangImage Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics

  8. Semantic Watermarking for Malicious Image Manipulation Detection

    Sep 30, 2026Yoonseo Kim, Seungwoo Baek, Junyoung ParkImage Forgery DetectionRobust Watermarking

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

    Sep 30, 2026Zhiya Tan, Jing Huang, Changtao Miao +5Tool Use in VLMsImage Forgery Detection

  10. Team MSU GenText-Forensics Challenge 2026 Technical Report

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

  11. A Benchmark & Dataset for Detecting AI-Manipulated Visual Evidence in the Court System

    Sep 29, 2026Kelly McConvey, Sajad Ebrahimi, Nima Jamali +10Image Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics

  12. Forensic-Aware Continual Adaptation for Image Forgery Localization

    Sep 29, 2026Chenqi Kong, Song Xia, Anwei Luo +3Image Forgery DetectionVision Foundation Model Adaptation

  13. Mandela-Bench: Multimodal Models Remember Canonical Images Instead of Seeing Them

    Sep 26, 2026Yicheng Bao, Zhenkun Gao, Xiahui Guo +7Image Forgery DetectionMultimodal Model Evaluation

  14. UNMATCH: Selective Unbalanced Token-Patch Matching for Forensic Image-Claim Verification

    Sep 24, 2026Xinjin Li, Lian Lian, Yuanzhe Yang +6Claim VerificationDigital Image Forensics

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

    Sep 23, 2026Jinbin Huang, Yuki Ueno, Chen Chen +4Image Forgery DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

  16. 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 +3Image Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics

  17. IMFD: End-to-end Multi-Face Forgery Detection through Instruction-based Large Vision-Language Models

    Sep 17, 2026Dasom Choi, Sangjun Moon, Hyeongchan Im +5Image Forgery DetectionLarge Vision-Language Models

  18. GAN-Blot: A Controllable Structure-Style Synthesis Benchmark for Western Blot Forensics

    Sep 6, 2026Hao-Chiang Shao, Fong-Yi Lin, Te-An Chien +2Image GenerationControllable Image Generation

  19. FACT: A Forensic Agent with Compiled Tool-Use Trajectories for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Sep 5, 2026Jiaoyang Chen, Bin Hu, Jingyu Hu +3AI-Generated Image DetectionImage Forgery Detection

  20. Multi-Tool Image Editing Attribution in Facial Forgery

    Sep 2, 2026Sheng Liu, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang +3Image Forgery Detection

  21. Evidence-Guided Detection, Localization and Explanation for Text-Centric Image Forensics

    Sep 2, 2026Peifeng Liu, Bin Li, Qingsong Zhang +3Image Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics

  22. Benchmarking Spatial, Spectral, and Self-Supervised Cues for Face Forgery Detection under Realistic Degradation

    Sep 1, 2026Lucas Cunha, Lucas Sotomaior, Lucas Gasperin +3Image Corruption RobustnessImage Forgery Detection

  23. SegWave: Wavelet-Driven Segmentation of Tampered Regions

    Aug 31, 2026Siddhi Pravin Lipare, Vishesh Kumar, Akshay AgarwalImage Forgery DetectionDigital Image Forensics