One for All: Synthesis-Free Fingerprint Learning for Attribution of In-the-Wild Synthetic Images
Jianwei Fei, Yunshu Dai, Peipeng Yu, Zhihua Xia, Dasara Shullani, Daniele Baracchi, Alessandro Piva
Abstract
Attributing synthetic images to their source generative models is critical for digital forensics and security. While most existing attribution methods can distinguish images produced by known models and reject those from unknown ones, they are unable to verify whether a given image was produced by a specific, previously unseen model. To address this limitation, we formulate an open-set verification problem: determining whether a given image was generated by a specific model. Our key insight is that synthetic images from different models show consistent, content-independent fingerprints in their amplitude spectrum. Based on this insight, we design a dynamic fingerprint simulator capable of simulating over 1.6 trillion generative model architectures. We further train an extractor to capture model-specific fingerprint representations with supervised contrastive learning, enabling accurate attribution of synthetic images, even from previously unseen models. Our method does not rely on any synthetic images, instead, it is trained solely on real images. On DMDetection and AIGCBenchmark, which comprises dozens of state-of-the-art and in-the-wild generative models, our method improves the attribution performance (AUC) of the prior method from random level to 94.05% and 83.05%, respectively. On GenImage and OSMA datasets, we obtain 85.08%, and 88.48% OSCR, outperforming the SOTA methods by 4.30% and 9.37% under the same settings.
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