TruEye: Fine-Grained Detection of AI-Generated Human Subjects in Images
TruEye is a novel model for fine-grained detection and localization of AI-generated or manipulated humans and scenes, distinguishing among five compositional categories of synthetic content. It runs over 100x faster than LLM-based competitors and outperforms state-of-the-art detectors on multiple datasets.
[2606.27505] TruEye: Fine-Grained Detection of AI-Generated Human Subjects in Images
[Submitted on 25 Jun 2026]
Title:TruEye: Fine-Grained Detection of AI-Generated Human Subjects in Images
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Abstract:AI generated images are proliferating across the Internet. While some are used for entertainment, others are weaponized for fraud and social engineering attacks on social media users. Existing detectors overfit to generators seen during training, treat detection as opaque binary classification, or rely on costly Large Language Models (LLMs) to explain their outputs. In this paper, we present TruEye, a novel model for fine grained detection and localization of AI manipulated or AI generated humans and scenes. Unlike conventional detectors that assign a single authenticity label, TruEye is the first to distinguish among five compositional categories of synthetic content, including the most challenging case in which a real human is composited into a real scene where they were never physically present. At its core is a mask conditioned dual stream transformer that separates human and scene tokens while preserving patch level spatial correspondence. Specialized reasoning within each stream and region gated cross attention enforce semantic coherence between subject and background, while token level supervision and global compositional classification yield robust, interpretable predictions without invoking an LLM. By restricting intra stream attention to semantically coherent tokens, TruEye also runs over $100\times$ faster than LLM based competitors. Experiments on 6 datasets and our newly curated FineSyn dataset, show that TruEye surpasses state of the art detectors with higher accuracy, faster inference, and stronger generalization to unseen AI generated or manipulated images.
Comments: 18 Pages, 3 figures
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
Cite as: arXiv:2606.27505 [cs.CV]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.27505
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From: Jay Barot [view email] [v1] Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:38:41 UTC (7,528 KB)
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