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author Gushchin, Aleksandr
Abud, Khaled
Shumitskaya, Ekaterina
Filippov, Artem
Bychkov, Georgii
Lavrushkin, Sergey
Erofeev, Mikhail
Antsiferova, Anastasia
Chen, Changsheng
Tan, Shunquan
Timofte, Radu
Vatolin, Dmitry
Song, Chuanbiao
Yu, Zijian
Tan, Hao
Lan, Jun
Yang, Zhiqiang
Tang, Yongwei
Wu, Zhiqiang
Seow, Jia Wen
Koay, Hong Vin
Ren, Haodong
Xu, Feng
Chen, Shuai
Xia, Ruiyang
Zhang, Qi
Xu, Yaowen
Zou, Zhaofan
Sun, Hao
Lu, Dagong
Yao, Mufeng
Xu, Xinlei
Wu, Fei
Guo, Fengjun
Luo, Cong
Sharma, Hardik
Negi, Aashish
Shaily, Prateek
Kumar, Jayant
Chaudhary, Sachin
Dudhane, Akshay
Hambarde, Praful
Shukla, Amit
Tu, Zhilin
Li, Fengpeng
Zhang, Jiamin
Fei, Jianwei
Li, Kemou
Wu, Haiwei
Benjdira, Bilel
Ali, Anas M.
Boulila, Wadii
Qu, Chenfan
Li, Junchi
author_facet Gushchin, Aleksandr
Abud, Khaled
Shumitskaya, Ekaterina
Filippov, Artem
Bychkov, Georgii
Lavrushkin, Sergey
Erofeev, Mikhail
Antsiferova, Anastasia
Chen, Changsheng
Tan, Shunquan
Timofte, Radu
Vatolin, Dmitry
Song, Chuanbiao
Yu, Zijian
Tan, Hao
Lan, Jun
Yang, Zhiqiang
Tang, Yongwei
Wu, Zhiqiang
Seow, Jia Wen
Koay, Hong Vin
Ren, Haodong
Xu, Feng
Chen, Shuai
Xia, Ruiyang
Zhang, Qi
Xu, Yaowen
Zou, Zhaofan
Sun, Hao
Lu, Dagong
Yao, Mufeng
Xu, Xinlei
Wu, Fei
Guo, Fengjun
Luo, Cong
Sharma, Hardik
Negi, Aashish
Shaily, Prateek
Kumar, Jayant
Chaudhary, Sachin
Dudhane, Akshay
Hambarde, Praful
Shukla, Amit
Tu, Zhilin
Li, Fengpeng
Zhang, Jiamin
Fei, Jianwei
Li, Kemou
Wu, Haiwei
Benjdira, Bilel
Ali, Anas M.
Boulila, Wadii
Qu, Chenfan
Li, Junchi
contents This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild, held in conjunction with the NTIRE workshop at CVPR 2026. The goal of this challenge was to develop detection models capable of distinguishing real images from generated ones in realistic scenarios: the images are often transformed (cropped, resized, compressed, blurred) for practical usage, and therefore, the detection models should be robust to such transformations. The challenge is based on a novel dataset consisting of 108,750 real and 185,750 AI-generated images from 42 generators comprising a large variety of open-source and closed-source models of various architectures, augmented with 36 image transformations. Methods were evaluated using ROC AUC on the full test set, including both transformed and untransformed images. A total of 511 participants registered, with 20 teams submitting valid final solutions. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the challenge, describes the proposed solutions, and can be used as a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in increasing the robustness of the detection models to real-world transformations.
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spellingShingle NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild
Gushchin, Aleksandr
Abud, Khaled
Shumitskaya, Ekaterina
Filippov, Artem
Bychkov, Georgii
Lavrushkin, Sergey
Erofeev, Mikhail
Antsiferova, Anastasia
Chen, Changsheng
Tan, Shunquan
Timofte, Radu
Vatolin, Dmitry
Song, Chuanbiao
Yu, Zijian
Tan, Hao
Lan, Jun
Yang, Zhiqiang
Tang, Yongwei
Wu, Zhiqiang
Seow, Jia Wen
Koay, Hong Vin
Ren, Haodong
Xu, Feng
Chen, Shuai
Xia, Ruiyang
Zhang, Qi
Xu, Yaowen
Zou, Zhaofan
Sun, Hao
Lu, Dagong
Yao, Mufeng
Xu, Xinlei
Wu, Fei
Guo, Fengjun
Luo, Cong
Sharma, Hardik
Negi, Aashish
Shaily, Prateek
Kumar, Jayant
Chaudhary, Sachin
Dudhane, Akshay
Hambarde, Praful
Shukla, Amit
Tu, Zhilin
Li, Fengpeng
Zhang, Jiamin
Fei, Jianwei
Li, Kemou
Wu, Haiwei
Benjdira, Bilel
Ali, Anas M.
Boulila, Wadii
Qu, Chenfan
Li, Junchi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild, held in conjunction with the NTIRE workshop at CVPR 2026. The goal of this challenge was to develop detection models capable of distinguishing real images from generated ones in realistic scenarios: the images are often transformed (cropped, resized, compressed, blurred) for practical usage, and therefore, the detection models should be robust to such transformations. The challenge is based on a novel dataset consisting of 108,750 real and 185,750 AI-generated images from 42 generators comprising a large variety of open-source and closed-source models of various architectures, augmented with 36 image transformations. Methods were evaluated using ROC AUC on the full test set, including both transformed and untransformed images. A total of 511 participants registered, with 20 teams submitting valid final solutions. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the challenge, describes the proposed solutions, and can be used as a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in increasing the robustness of the detection models to real-world transformations.
title NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Robust AI-Generated Image Detection in the Wild
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11487