Image Forgery Localization

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Image forgery localization studies how to identify not just whether an image is altered, but which pixels or regions were changed. Methods look for forensic traces such as noise, compression and frequency anomalies, and increasingly combine them with pretrained vision models, segmentation systems and semantic reasoning. Training ranges from pixel-level masks to weak labels, synthetic edits, and watermarks, with benchmarks covering documents, faces, and AI-generated inpainting. A central challenge is generalizing to new editing models and real-world image conditions without mistaking semantic boundaries or compression artifacts for evidence of tampering.

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  1. LAA-X: Unified Localized Artifact Attention for Quality-Agnostic and Generalizable Face Forgery Detection

    Apr 5, 2026Dat Nguyen, Enjie Ghorbel, Anis Kacem +2Deepfake DetectionImage Forgery Localization

    CVI2, SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg · CRISTAL laboratory, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia · SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  2. 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

  3. PromptForge-350k: A Large-Scale Dataset and Contrastive Framework for Prompt-Based AI Image Forgery Localization

    Mar 31, 2026Jianpeng Wang, Haoyu Wang, Baoying Chen +4Image Forgery Localization

  4. 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.

  5. High-Fidelity Face Content Recovery via Tamper-Resilient Versatile Watermarking

    Mar 25, 2026Peipeng Yu, Jinfeng Xie, Chengfu Ou +5Robust WatermarkingImage Forgery Localization

    Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China · University of Macau, Macau, China · Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China +1

  6. From Masks to Pixels and Meaning: A New Taxonomy, Benchmark, and Metrics for VLM Image Tampering

    Mar 20, 2026Xinyi Shang, Yi Tang, Jiacheng Cui +9Image Forgery DetectionImage Forgery Localization

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University College London

  7. MedForge: Interpretable Medical Deepfake Detection via Forgery-aware Reasoning

    Mar 19, 2026Zhihui Chen, Kai He, Qingyuan Lei +4Image Forgery DetectionExplainable Deepfake Detection

    National University of Singapore · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Hunan University +2

  8. Rethinking VLMs for Image Forgery Detection and Localization

    Mar 13, 2026Shaofeng Guo, Jiequan Cui, Richang HongImage Forgery DetectionImage Forgery Localization

    Hefei University of Technology Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data, Ministry of Education

  9. 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

  10. RecoverMark: Robust Watermarking for Localization and Recovery of Manipulated Faces

    Feb 24, 2026Haonan An, Xiaohui Ye, Guang Hua +4Robust WatermarkingImage Forgery Localization

    City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · South China University of Technology · Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore 828608

  11. 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

  12. TextShield-R1: Reinforced Reasoning for Tampered Text Detection

    Feb 23, 2026Chenfan Qu, Yiwu Zhong, Jian Liu +3Text Forgery DetectionImage Forgery Detection

    South China University of Technology · Ant Group · Peking University

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Tracing Copied Pixels and Regularizing Patch Affinity in Copy Detection

    Feb 19, 2026Yichen Lu, Siwei Nie, Minlong Lu +3Image Forgery DetectionContrastive Learning

    Ant Group, China

  16. ManipShield: A Unified Framework for Image Manipulation Detection, Localization and Explanation

    Nov 18, 2025Zitong Xu, Huiyu Duan, Xiaoyu Wang +4Image Forgery DetectionImage Forgery Localization

    Institute of Image Communication and Network Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · University of Electronic and Science Technology of China

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. CMFDFormer: Transformer-based Copy-Move Forgery Detection with Continual Learning

    Nov 22, 2023Yaqi Liu, Chao Xia, Song Xiao +4Image Forgery DetectionImage Forgery Localization

    Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute, Beijing 100070, China · the Computer Engineering College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China · the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Network, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China +1