RelayFormer: A Unified Local-Global Attention Framework for Scalable Image and Video Manipulation Localization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09459v2
• Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:55:08 GMT
• Title: RelayFormer: A Unified Local-Global Attention Framework for Scalable Image and Video Manipulation Localization
• Authors: Wen Huang, Jiarui Yang, Tao Dai, Jiawei Li, Shaoxiong Zhan, Bin Wang, Shu-Tao Xia,
• Abstract summary: We propose RelayFormer, a unified framework that adapts to varying resolutions and modalities.<n> RelayFormer partitions inputs into fixed-size sub-images and introduces Global-Local Relay (GLR) tokens.<n>This enables efficient exchange of global cues, such as semantic or temporal consistency, while preserving fine-grained manipulation artifacts.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Visual manipulation localization (VML) aims to identify tampered regions in images and videos, a task that has become increasingly challenging with the rise of advanced editing tools. Existing methods face two main issues: resolution diversity, where resizing or padding distorts forensic traces and reduces efficiency, and the modality gap, as images and videos often require separate models. To address these challenges, we propose RelayFormer, a unified framework that adapts to varying resolutions and modalities. RelayFormer partitions inputs into fixed-size sub-images and introduces Global-Local Relay (GLR) tokens, which propagate structured context through a global-local relay attention (GLRA) mechanism. This enables efficient exchange of global cues, such as semantic or temporal consistency, while preserving fine-grained manipulation artifacts. Unlike prior methods that rely on uniform resizing or sparse attention, RelayFormer naturally scales to arbitrary resolutions and video sequences without excessive overhead. Experiments across diverse benchmarks demonstrate that RelayFormer achieves state-of-the-art performance with notable efficiency, combining resolution adaptivity without interpolation or excessive padding, unified modeling for both images and videos, and a strong balance between accuracy and computational cost. Code is available at: https://github.com/WenOOI/RelayFormer.

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