Learning Universal Features for Generalizable Image Forgery Localization

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Auteurs principaux: Zhao, Hengrun, Zhuge, Yunzhi, Wang, Yifan, Wang, Lijun, Lu, Huchuan, Zeng, Yu
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author Zhao, Hengrun
Zhuge, Yunzhi
Wang, Yifan
Wang, Lijun
Lu, Huchuan
Zeng, Yu
author_facet Zhao, Hengrun
Zhuge, Yunzhi
Wang, Yifan
Wang, Lijun
Lu, Huchuan
Zeng, Yu
contents In recent years, advanced image editing and generation methods have rapidly evolved, making detecting and locating forged image content increasingly challenging. Most existing image forgery detection methods rely on identifying the edited traces left in the image. However, because the traces of different forgeries are distinct, these methods can identify familiar forgeries included in the training data but struggle to handle unseen ones. In response, we present an approach for Generalizable Image Forgery Localization (GIFL). Once trained, our model can detect both seen and unseen forgeries, providing a more practical and efficient solution to counter false information in the era of generative AI. Our method focuses on learning general features from the pristine content rather than traces of specific forgeries, which are relatively consistent across different types of forgeries and therefore can be used as universal features to locate unseen forgeries. Additionally, as existing image forgery datasets are still dominated by traditional hand-crafted forgeries, we construct a new dataset consisting of images edited by various popular deep generative image editing methods to further encourage research in detecting images manipulated by deep generative models. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods in the detection of unseen forgeries and also demonstrates competitive results for seen forgeries. The code and dataset are available at https://github.com/ZhaoHengrun/GIFL.
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spellingShingle Learning Universal Features for Generalizable Image Forgery Localization
Zhao, Hengrun
Zhuge, Yunzhi
Wang, Yifan
Wang, Lijun
Lu, Huchuan
Zeng, Yu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In recent years, advanced image editing and generation methods have rapidly evolved, making detecting and locating forged image content increasingly challenging. Most existing image forgery detection methods rely on identifying the edited traces left in the image. However, because the traces of different forgeries are distinct, these methods can identify familiar forgeries included in the training data but struggle to handle unseen ones. In response, we present an approach for Generalizable Image Forgery Localization (GIFL). Once trained, our model can detect both seen and unseen forgeries, providing a more practical and efficient solution to counter false information in the era of generative AI. Our method focuses on learning general features from the pristine content rather than traces of specific forgeries, which are relatively consistent across different types of forgeries and therefore can be used as universal features to locate unseen forgeries. Additionally, as existing image forgery datasets are still dominated by traditional hand-crafted forgeries, we construct a new dataset consisting of images edited by various popular deep generative image editing methods to further encourage research in detecting images manipulated by deep generative models. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods in the detection of unseen forgeries and also demonstrates competitive results for seen forgeries. The code and dataset are available at https://github.com/ZhaoHengrun/GIFL.
title Learning Universal Features for Generalizable Image Forgery Localization
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07462