Who Made This? Fake Detection and Source Attribution with Diffusion Features
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| author | Bonechi, Simone Andreini, Paolo Corradini, Barbara Toniella |
| author_facet | Bonechi, Simone Andreini, Paolo Corradini, Barbara Toniella |
| contents | The rapid rise of generative models has yielded synthetic images of striking realism, blurring the line between real and fake content. As novel models proliferate, detectors must go beyond mere fake identification to robustly generalise across unseen generators and synthetic content. We introduce FRIDA (Fake image Recognition and source Identification via Diffusion features Analysis), a lightweight, data-efficient framework that uses features from a pre-trained Stable Diffusion Model to detect and attribute AI-generated images. Through an in-depth analysis of how data from different generators are encoded across diffusion U-Net layers, we propose a method that (i) detects synthetic images using a training-free $k$-Nearest Neighbour approach and (ii) performs source model attribution via a compact neural classifier. On the GenImage benchmark, FRIDA achieves state-of-the-art cross-generator detection with limited data while maintaining robust source model attribution capabilities. These results establish diffusion features as a reliable framework for AI-generated image forensics. |
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| spellingShingle | Who Made This? Fake Detection and Source Attribution with Diffusion Features Bonechi, Simone Andreini, Paolo Corradini, Barbara Toniella Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition The rapid rise of generative models has yielded synthetic images of striking realism, blurring the line between real and fake content. As novel models proliferate, detectors must go beyond mere fake identification to robustly generalise across unseen generators and synthetic content. We introduce FRIDA (Fake image Recognition and source Identification via Diffusion features Analysis), a lightweight, data-efficient framework that uses features from a pre-trained Stable Diffusion Model to detect and attribute AI-generated images. Through an in-depth analysis of how data from different generators are encoded across diffusion U-Net layers, we propose a method that (i) detects synthetic images using a training-free $k$-Nearest Neighbour approach and (ii) performs source model attribution via a compact neural classifier. On the GenImage benchmark, FRIDA achieves state-of-the-art cross-generator detection with limited data while maintaining robust source model attribution capabilities. These results establish diffusion features as a reliable framework for AI-generated image forensics. |
| title | Who Made This? Fake Detection and Source Attribution with Diffusion Features |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27602 |