5 papers
Backbone is All You Need: Assessing Vulnerabilities of Frozen Foundation Models in Synthetic Image Forensics
Chiara Musso, Joy Battocchio, Andrea Montibeller +1
As AI-generated synthetic images become increasingly realistic, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a cornerstone of modern deepfake detection. However, the prevailing relia…
Don't Guess, Escalate: Towards Explainable Uncertainty-Calibrated AI Forensic Agents
Giulia Boato, Andrea Montibeller, Edward Delp +2
AI is reshaping the landscape of multimedia forensics. We propose AI forensic agents: reliable orchestrators that select and combine forensic detectors, identify provenance and con…
Advance Fake Video Detection via Vision Transformers
Joy Battocchio, Stefano Dell'Anna, Andrea Montibeller +1
Recent advancements in AI-based multimedia generation have enabled the creation of hyper-realistic images and videos, raising concerns about their potential use in spreading misinf…
TrueFake: A Real World Case Dataset of Last Generation Fake Images also Shared on Social Networks
Stefano Dell'Anna, Andrea Montibeller, Giulia Boato
AI-generated synthetic media are increasingly used in real-world scenarios, often with the purpose of spreading misinformation and propaganda through social media platforms, where…
WILD: a new in-the-Wild Image Linkage Dataset for synthetic image attribution
Pietro Bongini, Sara Mandelli, Andrea Montibeller +14
Synthetic image source attribution is an open challenge, with an increasing number of image generators being released yearly. The complexity and the sheer number of available gener…