Venus-DeFakerOne: Unified Fake Image Detection & Localization
Researchers propose DeFakerOne, a unified foundation model for fake image detection and localization (FIDL) that integrates InternVL2 and SAM2 to perform simultaneous image-level detection and pixel-level localization, achieving state-of-the-art performance on 39 detection and 9 localization benchmarks, with robustness against generators like GPT-Image-2.
[2605.14091] Venus-DeFakerOne: Unified Fake Image Detection & Localization
[Submitted on 13 May 2026]
Title:Venus-DeFakerOne: Unified Fake Image Detection & Localization
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Abstract:In recent years, the rapid evolution of generative AI has fundamentally reshaped the paradigm of image forgery, breaking the traditional boundaries between document editing, natural image manipulation, DeepFake generation, and full-image AIGC synthesis. Despite this shift toward unified forgery generation, existing research in Fake Image Detection and Localization (FIDL) remains fragmented. This creates a mismatch between increasingly unified forgery generation mechanisms and the domain-specific detection paradigm. Bridging this mismatch poses two key challenges for FIDL: understanding cross-domain artifacts transfer and interference, and building a high-capacity unified foundation model for joint detection and localization. To address these challenges, we propose DeFakerOne, a data-centric, unified FIDL foundation model integrating InternVL2 and SAM2. DeFakerOne enables simultaneous image-level detection and pixel-level forgery localization across diverse scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DeFakerOne achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming baselines on 39 forgery detection benchmarks and 9 localization benchmarks. Furthermore, the model exhibits superior robustness against real-world perturbations and state-of-the-art generators such as GPT-Image-2. Finally, we provide a systematic analysis of data scaling laws, cross-domain artifacts transfer-interference patterns, the necessity of fine-grained supervision, and the original resolution artifacts preservation, highlighting the design principles for scalable, robust, and unified FIDL.
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
Cite as: arXiv:2605.14091 [cs.CV]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.14091
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From: Xuekang Zhu [view email] [v1] Wed, 13 May 2026 20:20:33 UTC (4,479 KB)
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