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  1. VIEScore2: Unified Image Evaluation with Spatially Grounded Explanations

    Oct 1, 2026Xianda Du, Max Ku, Weiming Ren +5Multi-Image Editing BenchmarksSynthetic Image Detection

    University of Waterloo · National Taiwan University · Nanyang Technological University +1

  2. FLASH: A "Generate Once, Synthesize Many" Framework for Synthetic Anomaly Generation in Industrial Anomaly Detection

    Sep 29, 2026Abhay Kumar Das, Rajesh Gangireddy, Ashwin Vaidya +1Multimodal Industrial Anomaly DetectionSynthetic Image Detection

    Silicon University, Bhubaneswar, India · Intel

  3. Beyond Pixel Similarity: Task-Aware Evaluation of GAN-Based Synthetic Sonar Data for Robotic Perception

    Sep 16, 2026Hannan Ejaz Keen, Muhammad Moazam Fraz, Karsten BernsSynthetic Image DetectionForward-Looking Sonar

    XITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions, Augsburg, Germany · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan · Department of Computer Science at Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  4. A Multi-View and Confusion-Guided Ensemble Framework for Robust Synthetic Image Attribution

    Sep 11, 2026Zuomin QuSynthetic Image DetectionText-To-Image

    State Key Laboratory of HVDC, China Southern Power Grid Electric Power Research Institute, China

  5. IDSPACE: A Novel Document Generator for Reliable Evaluation of Digital Identity Verification Systems [Extended Technical Report]

    Sep 2, 2026Lulu Xie, Yancheng Wang, Kanchan Chowdhury +3Synthetic Image DetectionSynthetic Data

    Arizona State University · Marquette University

  6. Hierarchical Channel Stacking: A Structured Decision Framework for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Aug 27, 2026Saifullah Shoaib, Akash Borigi, Rupendra Lekkala +5Synthetic Image DetectionAi-Generated Image Detection

    Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla MO 65409, USA · University of Houston, Houston TX 77479, USA · Aug Cranium AI, Inc., Short Hills NJ 07078, USA

  7. Visual Distortion Detection in UGC Images Using Large Multimodal Models

    Aug 10, 2026Ziheng Jia, Yingji Liang, Jiaying Qian +1Synthetic Image DetectionDistortion

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2East China Normal University

  8. Assessment of Conditional Diffusion Model for Synthetic Histopathology Image Generation

    Aug 4, 2026Seyed Kahaki, Shijie Li, Weijie Chen +1Medical Image GenerationSynthetic Image Detection

    Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

  9. Entity-Faithful Repair of Synthetic Supervision for Zero-Shot Image Captioning

    Aug 2, 2026Zhiyue Liu, Wenkai Zhou, Jian Qin +1Image Difference CaptioningImage-Text Alignment

    School of Computer, Electronics and Information Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology Guangxi University Nanning, Guangxi, China

  10. Generated Images Are Easier to Forget: A Machine Unlearning Perspective for Synthetic Image Detection

    Aug 1, 2026Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Tongliang Liu +3Synthetic Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    University of Science and Technology of China · Hong Kong Baptist University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1

  11. OSAGEN: Object-Aware Mask Priors and Multistage Decoupled Diffusion for Industrial Anomaly Generation

    Jul 31, 2026Jinyi Xu, Peng Chen, Yunkang Cao +3Multimodal Industrial Anomaly DetectionSynthetic Image Detection

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University · School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University · Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau +1

  12. Hybrid Semantic and Spectral Ensemble for Robust Synthetic Image Source Attribution

    Jul 24, 2026Md. Ajwad HossainSynthetic Image DetectionDeep Semantic Representations

    Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology Chittagong, Bangladesh

  13. Synthetic data generation framework for quality control automation in gravure printing

    Jul 23, 2026Korota Arsène Coulibaly, Mohamed Hamlich, Khalid Hmali +1Defect DetectionSynthetic Image Detection

    LCCPS Lab, ENSAM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, 150 Bd du Nil, Casablanca, 20670, , Morocco · Plastima, Commune Chellalat, Route Secondaire 3002, Mohammedia, Casablanca, , , Morroco

  14. Synthetic and Derived Training Images for Campus Waste Detection: A Multi-Seed Evaluation with YOLOv8n

    Jul 21, 2026Ali Behbahani, Newsha Javanmardi, Shahriar Ahmed +1Yolo26Synthetic Image Detection

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

  15. Demographically-Conditioned Synthetic Medical Images for Bias Mitigation and Bias Detection in Disease Classifiers

    Jul 16, 2026Mahmoud Ibrahim, Bart Elen, Chang Sun +2Synthetic Image DetectionFairness Audits

    Institute of Data Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands · Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands · VITO, Belgium

  16. Data Safety: Synthetic Data Quality Analysis Using CIFAKE Dataset

    Jul 13, 2026Kuniko Paxton, Amila Akagić, Koorosh Aslansefat +2Synthetic Image DetectionSynthetic Data

    School of Digital and Physical Science, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom · Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Zmaja od Bosne bb, Sarajevo, 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  17. Representation and Reference Selection in Training-Free Synthetic Image Attribution

    Jul 13, 2026Meiling Li, Pietro Bongini, Benedetta Tondi +1Synthetic Image DetectionMulti-Reference Image Generation

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

  18. Effective Synthetic Image Detection via Noise Residual Clustering

    Jul 12, 2026Caihui Yan, Gang Cao, Huawei Tian +2Synthetic Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Communication University of China, Beijing 100024, China · People's Public Security University of China, Beijing 100038, China

  19. Face-trace: Open-Set Attribution and Progressive Discovery of Synthetic Face Generators

    Jul 8, 2026Alessia Infantino, Claudio Schiavella, Irene AmeriniFacial ImagesSynthetic Image Detection

    Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG), Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy

  20. Multi-Conditioned Diffusion Synthesis of Sand Boils for Low-Resource Earthen-Levee Inspection

    Jul 8, 2026Padam Jung Thapa, Abdullah Bin Naeem, Ayon Dey +2Synthetic Image DetectionText-Conditioned Diffusion Model

    University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA · Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

  21. Generalized Synthetic Image Detection with Enhanced RGB-Noise Representation Learning

    Jul 7, 2026Zhen Li, Gang Cao, Tian Zhang +2Synthetic Image DetectionAi-Generated Image Detection

    School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100024, China · School of Information Engineering, Changsha Medical University, Changsha, 410219, China · Department of Information Engineering, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing, 100026, China +1

  22. 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

  23. Diagnosing Aerial-View Object Detectors with Foundational Image Generative Models

    Jul 2, 2026Stanislav Panev, Minhyek Jeon, Vaishnavi Khindkar +5Aerial DatasetSynthetic Image Detection

    Carnegie Mellon University, USA · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA · Florida State University, USA

  24. Post-Generation Curation of Synthetic Images via Homogeneous-Heterogeneous Splitting

    Jul 2, 2026Disheng Liu, Tuo Liang, Chaoda Song +1Synthetic Image DetectionGenerative Models

    Department of Computer and Data Sciences Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, USA

  25. AI-Generated Image Recognition via Fusion of CNNs and Vision Transformers

    Jun 26, 2026Xuan-Bach Mai, Hoang-Minh Nguyen-Huu, Quoc-Nghia Nguyen +3Synthetic Image DetectionAuthenticity

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  26. Text Over Image: Auditing Multimodal Robustness in Synthetic Medical Image Detection

    Jun 24, 2026Ching-Hao Chiu, Hao-Wei Chung, Gelei Xu +7Synthetic Image DetectionMultimodal Clinical Data

    University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. · IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. · Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. +2

  27. Minimalist Preprocessing Approach for Image Synthesis Detection

    Jun 24, 2026Hoai-Danh Vo, Trung-Nghia LeSynthetic Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  28. Synthetic Network Packet Generation through Statistical Learning and Genetic Algorithms

    Jun 18, 2026Mayank Raj, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Lance Fiondella +1Intrusion DetectionCapture Protocol

    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Dartmouth, MA USA · United States Military Academy West Point, NY USA

  29. Training-Free Metrics for Synthetic Object Detection Data: A Proxy for Detector Performance

    Jun 18, 2026Myeongseok Nam, Donghun Yeo, Seungwook KimSynthetic Image DetectionSynthetic Training Data

    GenGenAI, South Korea

  30. Rethinking Text-to-Image as Semantic-Aware Data Augmentation for Indoor Scene Recognition

    Jun 17, 2026Trong-Vu Hoang, Quang-Binh Nguyen, Dinh-Khoi Vo +3Synthetic Image DetectionData Augmentation

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  31. 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

  32. Impact of Synthetic Lesional MR Images in Automated Focal Cortical Dysplasia Detection in Low-Data Scenarios

    Jun 5, 2026Prabhjot Kaur, Hakim Ouaalam, Sedat Kandemirli +2Magnetic Resonance Imaging DatasetMedical Image Generation

    Computational Radiology Laboratory, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

  33. Chroma Clues: Leveraging Color Statistics to Detect Synthetic Images

    Jun 1, 2026Lea Uhlenbrock, Davide Cozzolino, Christian RiessSynthetic Image Detection

  34. No Free Lunch for Synthetic Images under Data Scarcity Conditions

    Jun 1, 2026Borja Arroyo Galende, Alejandro Almodóvar, Patricia A. Apellániz +3Generative Adversarial NetworkSynthetic Data

    Information Processing and Telecommunications Center, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, 28030, Spain · Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, 28030, Spain

  35. Train, Test, Re-evaluate: Schedule-Sensitive Evaluation of Generative Data for Hand Detection

    Jun 1, 2026Atmika Bhardwaj, Silvia Vock, Nico SteckhanSynthetic Image DetectionSynthetic Data

    Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Germany

  36. FiSeR: Fine-Grained Source Representations for Cross-Domain AI Image Detection

    May 30, 2026Shan Zhang, Yongxin He, Mingming Zhang +2Synthetic Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    The Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, Beijing, China +1

  37. FakeVLM-R1: Internalizing Physical Laws via CoT for Synthetic Image Detection

    May 28, 2026Leqi Zhu, Junyan Ye, Kaiqing Lin +3Synthetic Image DetectionForgeries

    Shanghai AI Lab · Nanjing University · Sun Yat-Sen University +3

  38. HydraPrompt: An Adaptive and Asymmetric Framework of Vision-Language Models for Synthetic Image Detection

    May 26, 2026Senyuan Shi, Hao Tan, Zichang Tan +4Synthetic Image DetectionForgeries

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences (SAIS), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +2

  39. ClueAegis: Heuristic-to-Reasoning Cognitive-skill Learning for Unified Evidence-based Synthetic Image Detection

    May 24, 2026Huangsen Cao, Hongkang Chu, Yuxi Li +6Synthetic Image DetectionDigital Forensics

    Zhejiang University · University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences · WeChat Vision, Tencent Inc

  40. What Makes Synthetic Data Effective in Image Segmentation

    May 19, 2026Jinjin Zhang, Xiefan Guo, Yizhou Jin +2Efficient Semantic SegmentationSynthetic Image Detection

    State Key Laboratory of Complex and Critical Software Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  41. ImageAttributionBench: How Far Are We from Generalizable Attribution?

    May 13, 2026Tingshu Mou, Zhipeng Wei, Chao Gong +2Synthetic Image DetectionGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    1Fudan University · University of California, Berkeley

  42. Evidence-based Decision Modeling for Synthetic Face Detection with Uncertainty-driven Active Learning

    May 11, 2026Qingchao Jiang, Zhenxuan Hou, Zhiying Zhu +3Synthetic Image DetectionFacial Images

    Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China · School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China · College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China +1

  43. Post-hoc Selective Classification for Reliable Synthetic Image Detection

    May 9, 2026Kaixiang Zheng, Jacob H. SeidmanSynthetic Image DetectionDetection Performance

    University of Waterloo · Reality Defender

  44. Advancing Reliable Synthetic Video Detection: Insights from the SAFE Challenge

    May 7, 2026Kirill Trapeznikov, Gabriel Mancino-Ball, Jonathan Li +9Ai-Generated Video DetectionSynthetic Image Detection

    STR · Drexel University · Aptima, Inc. +1

  45. LEGO: LoRA-Enabled Generator-Oriented Framework for Synthetic Image Detection

    May 6, 2026Yutong Xiao, Ran Ran, Jiwei Wei +4Synthetic Image DetectionGenerative Adversarial Network

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Shenzhen, China

  46. HiMix: Hierarchical Artifact-aware Mixup for Generalized Synthetic Image Detection

    Apr 30, 2026Shuchang Zhou, Kaiwen Shen, Jiwei Wei +3Synthetic Image DetectionGenerative Adversarial Network

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Hainan University

  47. SycoPhantasy: Quantifying Sycophancy and Hallucination in Small Open Weight VLMs for Vision-Language Scoring of Fantasy Characters

    Apr 27, 2026Arya Shah, Deepali Mishra, Chaklam SilpasuwanchaiVision-Language Foundation ModelsSycophancy

    IIT Gandhinagar Gandhinagar, India · IIT Kanpur Kanpur, India · Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok, Thailand

  48. Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Frontier Image Generation Models, Synthetic Visual Evidence, and Real-World Risk

    Apr 27, 2026Shuai Wu, Xue Li, Yanna Feng +3Synthetic Image DetectionImage Generation

    Mr. Shuai Wu* · Ms. Xue Li · Mrs. Yanna Feng +3

  49. Class-specific diffusion models improve military object detection in a low-data domain

    Apr 20, 2026Ella P. Fokkinga, Jan Erik van Woerden, Thijs A. Eker +4Synthetic Image DetectionObject Detection

    TNO - Intelligent Imaging, Oude Waalsdorperweg 63, the Hague, the Netherlands

  50. Adaptive Forensic Feature Refinement via Intrinsic Importance Perception

    Apr 18, 2026Jiazhen Yang, Junjun Zheng, Kejia Chen +5Synthetic Image DetectionForgeries

    Zhejiang University · Hangzhou, China · Alibaba Inc +1

  51. Interpretable Similarity of Synthetic Image Utility

    Dec 18, 2025Panagiota Gatoula, George Dimas, Dimitris K. IakovidisSynthetic Image DetectionMedical Image Generation

    University of Thessaly, Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, Lamia 35131 Greece

  52. Few-Shot Synthetic Image Attribution: Identifying Unseen Generators with Limited Samples

    Sep 30, 2025Shiyu Wu, Shuyan Li, Jing Li +2Synthetic Image DetectionAi-Generated Image Detection

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China +3