Impostor: An Agent-Curated Benchmark for Realistic AIGC Manipulation Localization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04545v1
• Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:27:45 GMT
• Title: Impostor: An Agent-Curated Benchmark for Realistic AIGC Manipulation Localization
• Abstract summary: We introduce Impostor, a high-quality AI-edited image manipulation localization dataset containing 100K manipulated images.<n>Impostor is constructed by CraftAgent, a closed-loop agent framework that integrates scene perception, editing planning, manipulation execution, quality validation, and iterative reflection.<n>We propose PhaseAware-Net (PANet), a semantic-forensic framework that introduces local phase modeling and semantic-forensic consistency learning to better localize semantically plausible yet forensically disrupted manipulated regions.
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• Abstract: Recent advances in generative image editing have improved the realism and controllability of localized image manipulation, raising new challenges for image manipulation detection and localization (IMDL). However, existing IMDL benchmarks still have limitations in visual realism, manipulation diversity, and generator coverage, making it difficult to reflect recent trends in image manipulation. To address these limitations, we introduce Impostor, a high-quality AI-edited image manipulation localization dataset containing 100K manipulated images. Impostor is constructed by CraftAgent, a closed-loop agent framework that integrates scene perception, editing planning, manipulation execution, quality validation, and iterative reflection to automatically generate diverse and visually realistic manipulated images. Moreover, Impostor contains images generated by seven recent AIGC models across three manipulation types and includes multiple manipulated regions, providing a more comprehensive benchmark for AIGC-based IMDL. Furthermore, we propose PhaseAware-Net (PANet), a semantic-forensic framework that introduces local phase modeling and semantic-forensic consistency learning to better localize semantically plausible yet forensically disrupted manipulated regions. Extensive experiments show that Impostor poses significant challenges to existing large vision-language models (LVLMs) and specialized IMDL methods, while PANet achieves superior performance on Impostor and multiple public benchmarks.

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