CO-SPY: Combining Semantic and Pixel Features to Detect Synthetic Images by AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18286v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:59:29 GMT
• Title: CO-SPY: Combining Semantic and Pixel Features to Detect Synthetic Images by AI
• Authors: Siyuan Cheng, Lingjuan Lyu, Zhenting Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Vikash Sehwag,
• Abstract summary: Current efforts to distinguish between real and AI-generated images may lack generalization.<n>We propose a novel framework, Co-Spy, that first enhances existing semantic features.<n>We also create Co-Spy-Bench, a comprehensive dataset comprising 5 real image datasets and 22 state-of-the-art generative models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With the rapid advancement of generative AI, it is now possible to synthesize high-quality images in a few seconds. Despite the power of these technologies, they raise significant concerns regarding misuse. Current efforts to distinguish between real and AI-generated images may lack generalization, being effective for only certain types of generative models and susceptible to post-processing techniques like JPEG compression. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel framework, Co-Spy, that first enhances existing semantic features (e.g., the number of fingers in a hand) and artifact features (e.g., pixel value differences), and then adaptively integrates them to achieve more general and robust synthetic image detection. Additionally, we create Co-Spy-Bench, a comprehensive dataset comprising 5 real image datasets and 22 state-of-the-art generative models, including the latest models like FLUX. We also collect 50k synthetic images in the wild from the Internet to enable evaluation in a more practical setting. Our extensive evaluations demonstrate that our detector outperforms existing methods under identical training conditions, achieving an average accuracy improvement of approximately 11% to 34%. The code is available at https://github.com/Megum1/Co-Spy.

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