Detecting AI-Generated Videos with Spiking Neural Networks

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Hauptverfasser: Jang, Minsuk, Yang, Yujin, Kim, Heeseon, Son, Minseok, Kim, Younghun, Kim, Changick
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author Jang, Minsuk
Yang, Yujin
Kim, Heeseon
Son, Minseok
Kim, Younghun
Kim, Changick
author_facet Jang, Minsuk
Yang, Yujin
Kim, Heeseon
Son, Minseok
Kim, Younghun
Kim, Changick
contents Modern AI-generated videos are photorealistic at the single-frame level, leaving inter-frame dynamics as the main remaining axis for detection. Existing detectors typically handle this temporal evidence in three ways: feeding the full frame sequence to a generic temporal backbone, reducing one dominant temporal cue to fixed video-level descriptors, or comparing temporal features to real-video statistics through a detection metric. These strategies degrade sharply under cross-generator evaluation, where artifact type and timescale vary across generators. On caption-paired benchmark, GenVidBench, we identify two signatures that prior detectors do not jointly exploit: AI-generated videos exhibit smoother frame-to-frame temporal residuals at the pixel level, and more compact trajectories in the semantic feature space, indicating a temporal smoothness gap at both levels. We further observe that, when raw video is fed into a Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), fake clips elicit firing predominantly at object and motion boundaries, unlike real clips, suggesting that the SNN responds to temporal artifacts localized at edges. These cues are sparse, asynchronous, and concentrated at moments of change, which makes SNNs a natural choice for this task: their event-driven, sparsely-activated dynamics align with the structure of the residual signal in a way that dense ANN backbones do not. Building on this observation, we propose MAST, a detector that processes multi-channel temporal residuals with a spike-driven temporal branch alongside a frozen semantic encoder for cross-generator generalization. On the GenVideo benchmark, MAST achieves 93.14\% mean accuracy across 10 unseen generators under strict cross-generator evaluation, matching or surpassing the strongest ANN-based detectors and demonstrating the practical applicability of SNNs to AI-generated video detection.
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spellingShingle Detecting AI-Generated Videos with Spiking Neural Networks
Jang, Minsuk
Yang, Yujin
Kim, Heeseon
Son, Minseok
Kim, Younghun
Kim, Changick
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
I.4.8; I.4.9; I.5.1; I.5.4; I.2.10
Modern AI-generated videos are photorealistic at the single-frame level, leaving inter-frame dynamics as the main remaining axis for detection. Existing detectors typically handle this temporal evidence in three ways: feeding the full frame sequence to a generic temporal backbone, reducing one dominant temporal cue to fixed video-level descriptors, or comparing temporal features to real-video statistics through a detection metric. These strategies degrade sharply under cross-generator evaluation, where artifact type and timescale vary across generators. On caption-paired benchmark, GenVidBench, we identify two signatures that prior detectors do not jointly exploit: AI-generated videos exhibit smoother frame-to-frame temporal residuals at the pixel level, and more compact trajectories in the semantic feature space, indicating a temporal smoothness gap at both levels. We further observe that, when raw video is fed into a Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), fake clips elicit firing predominantly at object and motion boundaries, unlike real clips, suggesting that the SNN responds to temporal artifacts localized at edges. These cues are sparse, asynchronous, and concentrated at moments of change, which makes SNNs a natural choice for this task: their event-driven, sparsely-activated dynamics align with the structure of the residual signal in a way that dense ANN backbones do not. Building on this observation, we propose MAST, a detector that processes multi-channel temporal residuals with a spike-driven temporal branch alongside a frozen semantic encoder for cross-generator generalization. On the GenVideo benchmark, MAST achieves 93.14\% mean accuracy across 10 unseen generators under strict cross-generator evaluation, matching or surpassing the strongest ANN-based detectors and demonstrating the practical applicability of SNNs to AI-generated video detection.
title Detecting AI-Generated Videos with Spiking Neural Networks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
I.4.8; I.4.9; I.5.1; I.5.4; I.2.10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05895