Forensic tool use improves explainable zero-shot image forgery detection

ATAR combines multimodal reasoning with 22 forensic tools to classify and localize manipulation while grounding its explanations in extracted evidence.

Chinese Tech
Zhiya Tan · Jing Huang · Changtao Miao · Lin Tan · Xin Zhang · Weiwei Feng · +2 more

CCDS · Nanyang Technological University · Ant Digital Technologies · Ant Group · Singapore University of Technology and Design

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The authors integrated 22 forensic tools spanning seven domains into a multimodal large language model agent.

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From Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and 7 others

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ATAR uses 22 forensic tools to detect and explain image forgeries through multi-turn reasoning.

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