17 papers
Semantic Color Naturalness Breaker: Preventing Illegitimate Colorization via Content-Aware Color Priors
Yuki Nii, Futa Waseda, Ching-Chun Chang +1
Automatic image colorization enables large-scale and low-cost reuse of grayscale media (e.g., manga panels and archival photographs), facilitating unauthorized reuse and redistribu…
EvoGuard: An Extensible Agentic RL-based Framework for Practical and Evolving AI-Generated Image Detection
Chenyang Zhu, Maorong Wang, Jun Liu +2
The rapid proliferation of AI-Generated Images (AIGIs) poses severe misinformation risks, making AIGI detection critical yet challenging. Traditional detection paradigms mainly rel…
On the Origin of Synthetic Information by Means of Steganographic Inheritance
Ching-Chun Chang, Isao Echizen
The origin of species has been the mystery of mysteries in natural science. By analogy, the origin of synthetic information, we suggest, is the mystery of mysteries in information…
On the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Human-Machine Symbiosis
Ching-Chun Chang, Yuchen Guo, Hanrui Wang +2
The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has rendered the boundary between humanity and computational machinery increasingly ambiguous. In the presence of more interwoven rela…
Tell-Tale Watermarks for Explanatory Reasoning in Synthetic Media Forensics
Ching-Chun Chang, Isao Echizen
The rise of synthetic media has blurred the boundary between reality and fabrication under the evolving power of artificial intelligence, fueling an infodemic that erodes public tr…
Chronology of Multi-Agent Interactions for Provenance of Evolving Information
Ching-Chun Chang, Isao Echizen
Provenance is the chronological history of things, resonating with the fundamental pursuit to uncover origins, trace connections, and situate entities within the flow of space and…