Exposing Computer-Generated Images Via Amplified Texture Differences Learning

Many Computer-Generated (CG) images are spreading widely on the Internet, which may deliberately misinform or deceive the public. Therefore, distinguishing CG images from natural photographic (PG) has become a frontier research topic in the field of image forensics. Although many algorithms have been proposed, it is still very challenging to detect CG images generated by the recent cutting-edge generative methods. Besides, most existing algorithms tend to generalize poorly when facing different unseen multimodal generative models. To address this issue, a novel method based on amplified texture differences learning is proposed to tackle this problem. We first design a deep texture enhancement module for discriminative texture amplification. Specifically, a semantic segmentation module is utilized to generate semantic segmentation map for the affine transformation operation guidance, which can be further used to recover the texture in different regions of the input image. Then, the combination of the original image and the high-frequency components of the original and enhanced images are fed into a hybrid neural network equipped with attention mechanisms, which refines intermediate features and facilitates trace exploration in spatial and channel dimensions respectively. By verifying on several commonly used benchmark datasets and a newly constructed dataset¹¹The benchmark is available at https://github.com/191578010/DSGCG. with more realistic and diverse images, the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms some existing methods. © 2023 IEEE.