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cs.CV2026

Anchor-Regularized Adaptation for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection with DINOv3

Hyeongjun Choi, Juhun Lee, Davide Cozzolino +2

Recent works in AI-generated image detection have shown that careful training data alignment can improve generalization by removing spurious correlations. However, linear probes on…

cs.CV2026

Understanding Why Foundation Models Work for Diffusion-Generated Image Detection

Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Luisa Verdoliva

Vision foundation models have recently emerged as powerful feature extractors for detecting AI-generated images, achieving strong generalization across generators and robustness to…

cs.CV2025

Seeing What Matters: Generalizable AI-generated Video Detection with Forensic-Oriented Augmentation

Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino, Ekta Prashnani +3

Synthetic video generation is progressing very rapidly. The latest models can produce very realistic high-resolution videos that are virtually indistinguishable from real ones. Alt…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

AI-GenBench: A New Ongoing Benchmark for AI-Generated Image Detection

Lorenzo Pellegrini, Davide Cozzolino, Serafino Pandolfini +5

The rapid advancement of generative AI has revolutionized image creation, enabling high-quality synthesis from text prompts while raising critical challenges for media authenticity…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

A Bias-Free Training Paradigm for More General AI-generated Image Detection

Fabrizio Guillaro, Giada Zingarini, Ben Usman +3

Successful forensic detectors can produce excellent results in supervised learning benchmarks but struggle to transfer to real-world applications. We believe this limitation is lar…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Zero-Shot Detection of AI-Generated Images

Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Matthias Nießner +1

Detecting AI-generated images has become an extraordinarily difficult challenge as new generative architectures emerge on a daily basis with more and more capabilities and unpreced…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of CLIP for AI-generated Image Detection

Vincenzo De Rosa, Fabrizio Guillaro, Giovanni Poggi +2

In recent years, many forensic detectors have been proposed to detect AI-generated images and prevent their use for malicious purposes. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have lo…

cs.CV2024

Synthetic Image Verification in the Era of Generative AI: What Works and What Isn't There Yet

Diangarti Tariang, Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino +3

In this work we present an overview of approaches for the detection and attribution of synthetic images and highlight their strengths and weaknesses. We also point out and discuss…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Raising the Bar of AI-generated Image Detection with CLIP

Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi, Riccardo Corvi +2

The aim of this work is to explore the potential of pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) for universal detection of AI-generated images. We develop a lightweight detection str…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Synthetic Image Detection: Highlights from the IEEE Video and Image Processing Cup 2022 Student Competition

Davide Cozzolino, Koki Nagano, Lucas Thomaz +2

The Video and Image Processing (VIP) Cup is a student competition that takes place each year at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. The 2022 IEEE VIP Cup asked u…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Intriguing properties of synthetic images: from generative adversarial networks to diffusion models

Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino, Giovanni Poggi +2

Detecting fake images is becoming a major goal of computer vision. This need is becoming more and more pressing with the continuous improvement of synthesis methods based on Genera…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Learning Pairwise Interaction for Generalizable DeepFake Detection

Ying Xu, Kiran Raja, Luisa Verdoliva +1

A fast-paced development of DeepFake generation techniques challenge the detection schemes designed for known type DeepFakes. A reliable Deepfake detection approach must be agnosti…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

TruFor: Leveraging all-round clues for trustworthy image forgery detection and localization

Fabrizio Guillaro, Davide Cozzolino, Avneesh Sud +2

In this paper we present TruFor, a forensic framework that can be applied to a large variety of image manipulation methods, from classic cheapfakes to more recent manipulations bas…

cs.CV2022★ 10 cited

On the detection of synthetic images generated by diffusion models

Riccardo Corvi, Davide Cozzolino, Giada Zingarini +3

Over the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in creating synthetic media, mainly thanks to the development of powerful methods based on generative adversarial networks…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Comprint: Image Forgery Detection and Localization using Compression Fingerprints

Hannes Mareen, Dante Vanden Bussche, Fabrizio Guillaro +4

Manipulation tools that realistically edit images are widely available, making it easy for anyone to create and spread misinformation. In an attempt to fight fake news, forgery det…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

How to Boost Face Recognition with StyleGAN?

Artem Sevastopolsky, Yury Malkov, Nikita Durasov +2

State-of-the-art face recognition systems require vast amounts of labeled training data. Given the priority of privacy in face recognition applications, the data is limited to cele…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Audio-Visual Person-of-Interest DeepFake Detection

Davide Cozzolino, Alessandro Pianese, Matthias Nießner +1

Face manipulation technology is advancing very rapidly, and new methods are being proposed day by day. The aim of this work is to propose a deepfake detector that can cope with the…

cs.CV2021

Towards Universal GAN Image Detection

Davide Cozzolino, Diego Gragnaniello, Giovanni Poggi +1

The ever higher quality and wide diffusion of fake images have spawn a quest for reliable forensic tools. Many GAN image detectors have been proposed, recently. In real world scena…

cs.CV2021★ 29 cited

Forensic Analysis of Synthetically Generated Western Blot Images

Sara Mandelli, Davide Cozzolino, Edoardo D. Cannas +8

The widespread diffusion of synthetically generated content is a serious threat that needs urgent countermeasures. As a matter of fact, the generation of synthetic content is not r…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Are GAN generated images easy to detect? A critical analysis of the state-of-the-art

Diego Gragnaniello, Davide Cozzolino, Francesco Marra +2

The advent of deep learning has brought a significant improvement in the quality of generated media. However, with the increased level of photorealism, synthetic media are becoming…

cs.CV2020

ID-Reveal: Identity-aware DeepFake Video Detection

Davide Cozzolino, Andreas Rössler, Justus Thies +2

A major challenge in DeepFake forgery detection is that state-of-the-art algorithms are mostly trained to detect a specific fake method. As a result, these approaches show poor gen…

cs.CV2020★ 952 cited

Media Forensics and DeepFakes: an overview

Luisa Verdoliva

With the rapid progress of recent years, techniques that generate and manipulate multimedia content can now guarantee a very advanced level of realism. The boundary between real an…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Combining PRNU and noiseprint for robust and efficient device source identification

Davide Cozzolino, Francesco Marra, Diego Gragnaniello +2

PRNU-based image processing is a key asset in digital multimedia forensics. It allows for reliable device identification and effective detection and localization of image forgeries…

cs.CV2019

SpoC: Spoofing Camera Fingerprints

Davide Cozzolino, Justus Thies, Andreas Rössler +2

Thanks to the fast progress in synthetic media generation, creating realistic false images has become very easy. Such images can be used to wrap "rich" fake news with enhanced cred…