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Zijie Cao

3 accepted papers

2026

Unveiling Perceptual Artifacts: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Interpretable AI-Generated Image Detection

ICLR 2026poster

Current AI-Generated Image (AIGI) detection approaches predominantly rely on binary classification to distinguish real from synthetic images, often lacking interpretable or convincing evidence to substantiate their decisions. This limitation stems from existing AIGI detection benchmarks, which, desp…

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2026

Where Detectors Fail: Probing Generative Space for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

ICML 2026poster

Detecting AI-generated images (AIGI) remains challenging because detectors often fail to generalize to unseen generators. Although existing methods are trained on large datasets, their performance still degrades when generation settings change, indicating that data scale alone is insufficient and th…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Are High-Quality AI-Generated Images More Difficult for Models to Detect?

ICML 2025poster

The remarkable evolution of generative models has enabled the generation of high-quality, visually attractive images, often perceptually indistinguishable from real photographs to human eyes. This has spurred significant attention on AI-generated image (AIGI) detection. Intuitively, higher image qua…