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Publications (20)

cs.LG2025

Maximize margins for robust splicing detection

Julien Simon de Kergunic, Rony Abecidan, Patrick Bas +1

Despite recent progress in splicing detection, deep learning-based forensic tools remain difficult to deploy in practice due to their high sensitivity to training conditions. Even…

cs.CR2023

Compatibility and Timing Attacks for JPEG Steganalysis

Etienne Levecque, Patrick Bas, Jan Butora

This paper introduces a novel compatibility attack to detect a steganographic message embedded in the DCT domain of a JPEG image at high-quality factors (close to 100). Because the…

eess.SP2024

Pick the Largest Margin for Robust Detection of Splicing

Julien Simon de Kergunic, Rony Abecidan, Patrick Bas +1

Despite advancements in splicing detection, practitioners still struggle to fully leverage forensic tools from the literature due to a critical issue: deep learning-based detectors…

cs.CR2025

Dual JPEG Compatibility: a Reliable and Explainable Tool for Image Forensics

Etienne Levecque, Jan Butora, Patrick Bas

Given a JPEG pipeline (compression or decompression), this paper demonstrates how to find the antecedent of an 8x8 block. If it exists, the block is considered compatible with the…

cs.CV2025

DinoLizer: Separating VAE and Diffusion Artifacts in Generative Inpainting Localization

Minh Thong Doi, Jan Butora, Vincent Itier +2

We introduce DinoLizer, a DINOv2-based localizer of manipulated areas in generative inpainting. The model is trained to focus on semantically altered regions by treating reconstruc…

cs.CR2024

Finding Incompatible Blocks for Reliable JPEG Steganalysis

Etienne Levecque, Jan Butora, Patrick Bas

This article presents a refined notion of incompatible JPEG images for a quality factor of 100. It can be used to detect the presence of steganographic schemes embedding in DCT coe…