Evolution of Detection Performance Throughout the Online Lifespan of Synthetic Images

Abstract

Synthetic images disseminated online significantly differ from those used during the training and evaluation of the state-of-the-art detectors. In this work, we analyze the performance of synthetic image detectors as deceptive synthetic images evolve throughout their online lifespan. Our study reveals that, despite advancements in the field, current state-of-the-art detectors struggle to distinguish between synthetic and real images in the wild. Moreover, we show that the time elapsed since the initial online appearance of a synthetic image negatively affects the performance of most detectors. Ultimately, by employing a retrieval-assisted detection approach, we demonstrate the feasibility to maintain initial detection performance throughout the whole online lifespan of an image and enhance the average detection efficacy across several state-of-the-art detectors by 6.7% and 7.8% for balanced accuracy and AUC metrics, respectively.

Cite

Text

Karageorgiou et al. "Evolution of Detection Performance Throughout the Online Lifespan of Synthetic Images." European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2024. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-92648-8_24

Markdown

[Karageorgiou et al. "Evolution of Detection Performance Throughout the Online Lifespan of Synthetic Images." European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2024.](https://mlanthology.org/eccvw/2024/karageorgiou2024eccvw-evolution/) doi:10.1007/978-3-031-92648-8_24

BibTeX

@inproceedings{karageorgiou2024eccvw-evolution,
  title     = {{Evolution of Detection Performance Throughout the Online Lifespan of Synthetic Images}},
  author    = {Karageorgiou, Dimitrios and Bammey, Quentin and Porcellini, Valentin and Goupil, Bertrand and Teyssou, Denis and Papadopoulos, Symeon},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops},
  year      = {2024},
  pages     = {400-417},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-031-92648-8_24},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/eccvw/2024/karageorgiou2024eccvw-evolution/}
}