Synthetic & Adversarial ForEnsics


AWPD: Frequency Shield Network for Agnostic Watermark Presence Detection
Xiang Ao,
Yilin Du,
Zidan Wang,
MengRu Chen,
Siyang Lu
[pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ao_2026_CVPR, author = {Ao, Xiang and Du, Yilin and Wang, Zidan and Chen, MengRu and Lu, Siyang}, title = {AWPD: Frequency Shield Network for Agnostic Watermark Presence Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {390-399} }

AI-generated Image Detection: Passive or Watermark?
Moyang Guo,
Yuepeng Hu,
Zhengyuan Jiang,
Zeyu Li,
Amir Sadovnik,
Arka Daw,
Neil Zhenqiang Gong
[pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Guo_2026_CVPR, author = {Guo, Moyang and Hu, Yuepeng and Jiang, Zhengyuan and Li, Zeyu and Sadovnik, Amir and Daw, Arka and Gong, Neil Zhenqiang}, title = {AI-generated Image Detection: Passive or Watermark?}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {400-410} }

MorphoMod: Visible Watermark Removal with Morphological Dilation
Preston K. Robinette,
Dung Thuy Nguyen,
Taylor T. Johnson
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Robinette_2026_CVPR, author = {Robinette, Preston K. and Nguyen, Dung Thuy and Johnson, Taylor T.}, title = {MorphoMod: Visible Watermark Removal with Morphological Dilation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {449-458} }

The Purification Paradox: Dissecting and Exploiting Generative Vulnerability Bands in Diffusion Trajectories
Dhammadip Kamble,
Anil Kumar Sao,
Raghavendra Ramachandra
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kamble_2026_CVPR, author = {Kamble, Dhammadip and Sao, Anil Kumar and Ramachandra, Raghavendra}, title = {The Purification Paradox: Dissecting and Exploiting Generative Vulnerability Bands in Diffusion Trajectories}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {420-428} }

A Hybrid CLIP-Diffusion Architecture for Transparent Deepfake Detection and Explainability Evaluation
Andreas Specker,
Manjunatha Veerappa,
Thomas Golda,
Nadia Burkart,
Dominik Alveen,
Anna Wilhelm
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Specker_2026_CVPR, author = {Specker, Andreas and Veerappa, Manjunatha and Golda, Thomas and Burkart, Nadia and Alveen, Dominik and Wilhelm, Anna}, title = {A Hybrid CLIP-Diffusion Architecture for Transparent Deepfake Detection and Explainability Evaluation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {467-476} }

HIDE: Detecting Diffusion-Based Inpainting via Latent h-Space Representation
Seunghwan Ji,
Geonho Son,
Simon S. Woo
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ji_2026_CVPR, author = {Ji, Seunghwan and Son, Geonho and Woo, Simon S.}, title = {HIDE: Detecting Diffusion-Based Inpainting via Latent h-Space Representation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {411-419} }

TAP into the Patch Tokens: Leveraging Vision Foundation Model Features for AI-Generated Image Detection
Ahmed Abdullah,
Nikolas Ebert,
Oliver Wasenmüller
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Abdullah_2026_CVPR, author = {Abdullah, Ahmed and Ebert, Nikolas and Wasenm\"uller, Oliver}, title = {TAP into the Patch Tokens: Leveraging Vision Foundation Model Features for AI-Generated Image Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {379-389} }

EMO-BOOST: Emotion-Augmented Audio-Visual Features for Improved Generalization in Deepfake Detection
Aritra Marik,
Marcel Klemt,
Anna Rohrbach
[pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Marik_2026_CVPR, author = {Marik, Aritra and Klemt, Marcel and Rohrbach, Anna}, title = {EMO-BOOST: Emotion-Augmented Audio-Visual Features for Improved Generalization in Deepfake Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {438-448} }

DiFA: Dictionary-guided Feature Attacks for Transferable Adversarial Perturbations
Fatima Khalid,
Muhammad Hanif,
Karl Mason,
Usman Haider
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Khalid_2026_CVPR, author = {Khalid, Fatima and Hanif, Muhammad and Mason, Karl and Haider, Usman}, title = {DiFA: Dictionary-guided Feature Attacks for Transferable Adversarial Perturbations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {429-437} }

Perceptually-Guided Adversarial Interpretability of Pruned AIGC Image Quality Assessment Models
Tushar Shinde
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Shinde_2026_CVPR, author = {Shinde, Tushar}, title = {Perceptually-Guided Adversarial Interpretability of Pruned AIGC Image Quality Assessment Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {459-466} }

FRAME: Forensic Routing and Adaptive Multi-path Evidence Fusion for Image Manipulation Detection
Kaixiang Zhao,
Tianrun Yu,
Aoxu Zhang,
Junhao Su,
Porter Jenkins,
Amanda Hughes
[pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Zhao_2026_CVPR, author = {Zhao, Kaixiang and Yu, Tianrun and Zhang, Aoxu and Su, Junhao and Jenkins, Porter and Hughes, Amanda}, title = {FRAME: Forensic Routing and Adaptive Multi-path Evidence Fusion for Image Manipulation Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {477-485} }