AI RESEARCH

Post-hoc Selective Classification for Reliable Synthetic Image Detection

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2605.08574v1 Announce Type: cross As synthetic images become increasingly realistic, reliable synthetic image detection techniques are of pressing need to prevent their misuse. Despite satisfactory in-distribution performance, deep neural network-based synthetic image detectors (SIDs) lack reliability in deployment and often fail in the presence of common covariate shifts, resulting in poor detection accuracy. To avoid the risk caused by potential errors, we adopt a selective classification (SC) strategy by allowing SIDs to abstain from making low confidence predictions.