AI RESEARCH

Locate-Then-Examine: Grounded Region Reasoning Improves Detection of AI-Generated Images

arXiv CS.CL

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.