CMTA: Leveraging Cross-Modal Temporal Artifacts for Generalizable AI-Generated Video Detection

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Hang, Shen, Chao, Lin, Chenhao, Yang, Minghui, Zhang, Lei, Wang, Cong
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author Wang, Hang
Shen, Chao
Lin, Chenhao
Yang, Minghui
Zhang, Lei
Wang, Cong
author_facet Wang, Hang
Shen, Chao
Lin, Chenhao
Yang, Minghui
Zhang, Lei
Wang, Cong
contents The proliferation of advanced AI video synthesis techniques poses an unprecedented challenge to digital video authenticity. Existing AI-generated video (AIGV) detection methods primarily focus on uni-modal or spatiotemporal artifacts, but they overlook the rich cues within the visual-textual cross-modal space, especially the temporal stability of semantic alignment. In this work, we identify a distinctive fingerprint in AIGVs, termed cross-modal temporal artifact (CMTA). Unlike real videos that exhibit natural temporal fluctuations in cross-modal alignment due to semantic variations, AIGVs display unnaturally stable semantic trajectories governed by given input prompts. To bridge this gap, we propose the CMTA framework, a cross-modal detection approach that captures these unique temporal artifacts through joint cross-modal embedding and multi-grained temporal modeling. Specifically, CMTA leverages BLIP to generate frame-level image captions and utilizes CLIP to extract corresponding visual-textual representations. A coarse-grained temporal modeling branch is then designed to characterize temporal fluctuations in cross-modal alignment with a GRU. In parallel, a fine-grained branch is constructed to capture intricate inter-frame variations from integrated visual-textual features with a Transformer encoder. Extensive experiments on 40 subsets across four large-scale datasets, including GenVideo, EvalCrafter, VideoPhy, and VidProM, validate that our approach sets a new state-of-the-art while exhibiting superior cross-generator generalization. Code and models of CMTA will be released at https://github.com/hwang-cs-ime/CMTA
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spellingShingle CMTA: Leveraging Cross-Modal Temporal Artifacts for Generalizable AI-Generated Video Detection
Wang, Hang
Shen, Chao
Lin, Chenhao
Yang, Minghui
Zhang, Lei
Wang, Cong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Image and Video Processing
The proliferation of advanced AI video synthesis techniques poses an unprecedented challenge to digital video authenticity. Existing AI-generated video (AIGV) detection methods primarily focus on uni-modal or spatiotemporal artifacts, but they overlook the rich cues within the visual-textual cross-modal space, especially the temporal stability of semantic alignment. In this work, we identify a distinctive fingerprint in AIGVs, termed cross-modal temporal artifact (CMTA). Unlike real videos that exhibit natural temporal fluctuations in cross-modal alignment due to semantic variations, AIGVs display unnaturally stable semantic trajectories governed by given input prompts. To bridge this gap, we propose the CMTA framework, a cross-modal detection approach that captures these unique temporal artifacts through joint cross-modal embedding and multi-grained temporal modeling. Specifically, CMTA leverages BLIP to generate frame-level image captions and utilizes CLIP to extract corresponding visual-textual representations. A coarse-grained temporal modeling branch is then designed to characterize temporal fluctuations in cross-modal alignment with a GRU. In parallel, a fine-grained branch is constructed to capture intricate inter-frame variations from integrated visual-textual features with a Transformer encoder. Extensive experiments on 40 subsets across four large-scale datasets, including GenVideo, EvalCrafter, VideoPhy, and VidProM, validate that our approach sets a new state-of-the-art while exhibiting superior cross-generator generalization. Code and models of CMTA will be released at https://github.com/hwang-cs-ime/CMTA
title CMTA: Leveraging Cross-Modal Temporal Artifacts for Generalizable AI-Generated Video Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00630