Robustness of Synthetic Image Detec-tors in the Wild: Cross-Domain Evaluation and Visual Literacy-Based Error Analysis

Jun 2026

Synthetic Image Detection Across Different Generative Models

This paper investigates synthetic digital image detection across different generative models. The task is relevant due to rapid development of generative artificial intelligence, which enables creation of visual content that is difficult to distinguish from real imagery and increases risks related to misinformation, vi...

Vadim Borzov, E. Rybakov, M. Moseva et al. · 2026 Systems of Signal Synch... · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

Visual Distortion Detection in UGC Images Using Large Multimodal Models

This model leverages different layers of the large language model (LLM) decoder, treating them as multiple detectors that perform synchronous distortion detection using multi-level features, which helps mitigate the ambiguous foreground-background separation commonly encountered in the S2A problem.

Zi-Heng Jia, Yingji Liang, Jia-Ying Qian et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

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

This work establishes a new paradigm for generated image detection by recasting the detection task as a problem of machine unlearning, and introduces two detection methods: data-free detection, which prunes model parameters to induce unlearning without data access, and data-driven detection, which optimizes LVMs to unl...

Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Tongliang Liu et al. · 0 citations

Open access Jul 2026

Benchmarking and Improving Perceptual Straightening for Robust AI-Generated Video Detection

GurAI is proposed, a transparent logistic late-fusion method that combines Rich384 and DeMamba logits that suggests that transparent late fusion can exploit complementary detector strengths more effectively than architectural redesign alone when facing generator diversity.

Xenofon Papougiannakis, Rubén Tous · Electronics · 0 citations

Jul 2026

Evaluating domain generalization of product image quality assessment models using AI-generated images

The findings demonstrate that AI-generated images serve as an effective diagnostic tool for robustness evaluation and failure mode analysis, and supports reliable deployment of product image quality assessment models and highlights the value of synthetic data as a structured robustness testing resource in multimedia an...

Imad Tbaileh, Huthaifa I. Ashqar · Multimedia Systems · 0 citations

Preprint Jul 2026

AI-generated Images Challenge Visual Trust in High-risk Scenarios

SafeIMG is introduced, a safety-oriented benchmark spanning 12 public- and individual-safety scenarios generated using GPT Image 2.0 that provides human annotations that localise suspicious regions and explain local artefacts and higher-level commonsense or physical inconsistencies.

Yizhi Wang, Yichen Xiao, Linan Yue et al. · 0 citations