AI RESEARCH
Locate-Then-Examine: Grounded Region Reasoning Improves Detection of AI-Generated Images
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2510.04225v2 Announce Type: replace-cross The rapid growth of AI-generated imagery has blurred the boundary between real and synthetic content, raising practical concerns for digital integrity. Vision-language models (VLMs) can provide natural language explanations, but standard one-pass classifiers often miss subtle artifacts in high-quality synthetic images and offer limited grounding in the pixels.