用已知模型重生成图像,发现未知伪造品的分布差异。
Beyond Known Fakes: Generalized Detection of AI-Generated Images via Post-hoc Distribution Alignment
- 通过已知生成模型重产测试图像,比对分布一致性
- 在16种生成模型上平均准确率达96.69%,领先基线10.71%
- 无需新数据或重训练,适合持续涌现的新造假工具
高度逼真的AI生成图像泛滥,带来虚假信息与身份欺诈等安全威胁。在开放世界中检测未知生成器产生的伪造图像尤为困难,因现有方法依赖特定模型痕迹,需重新训练,泛化性与可扩展性差。本文提出后处理分布对齐(PDA),一种通用且模型无关的检测框架。PDA将检测重构为分布对齐任务:利用已知生成模型重产测试图像。真实图像重产时继承模型特征,与已知假图分布对齐;未知伪造图像则含不兼容或混合特征,保持错位。这一差异使已有检测器可在无未见数据或重训练条件下,精准区分真伪。在16种先进生成模型(包括GAN、扩散模型及商业文本转图像API如Midjourney)上的实验表明,PDA平均检测准确率达96.69%,优于最佳基线10.71%。全面消融研究与鲁棒性分析进一步验证其泛化能力与对分布偏移及图像变换的抗性。本工作为持续涌现的新生成模型提供实用、可扩展的现实检测方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The rapid proliferation of highly realistic AI-generated images poses serious security threats such as misinformation and identity fraud. Detecting generated images in open-world settings is particularly challenging when they originate from unknown generators, as existing methods typically rely on model-specific artifacts and require retraining on new fake data, limiting their generalization and scalability. In this work, we propose Post-hoc Distribution Alignment (PDA), a generalized and model-agnostic framework for detecting AI-generated images under unknown generative threats. Specifically, PDA reformulates detection as a distribution alignment task by regenerating test images through a known generative model. When real images are regenerated, they inherit model-specific artifacts and align with the known fake distribution. In contrast, regenerated unknown fakes contain incompatible or mixed artifacts and remain misaligned. This difference allows an existing detector, trained on the known generative model, to accurately distinguish real images from unknown fakes without requiring access to unseen data or retraining. Extensive experiments across 16 state-of-the-art generative models, including GANs, diffusion models, and commercial text-to-image APIs (e.g., Midjourney), demonstrate that PDA achieves average detection accuracy of 96.69%, outperforming the best baseline by 10.71%. Comprehensive ablation studies and robustness analyses further confirm PDA's generalizability and resilience to distribution shifts and image transformations. Overall, our work provides a practical and scalable solution for real-world AI-generated image detection where new generative models emerge continuously.
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