Spatial-Temporal Reconstruction Error for AIGC-based Forgery Image Detection

The remarkable success of AI-Generated Content (AIGC), especially diffusion image generation models, brings about unprecedented creative applications, but also creates fertile ground for malicious counterfeiting and crime. A highly effective family of forgery image detection methods based on diffusion reconstruction error has emerged, as images generated by diffusion are more easily reconstructed by any diffusion model. However, we find that existing methods only use reconstruction error from a single time step, failing to fully leverage the entire reconstruction process. To this end, we propose to comprehensively consider every single time step to form the Temporal Reconstruction Error (TRE) that offers a richer feature representation. Furthermore, we design temporal aggregation and spatial focusing modules from two dimensions respectively to more effectively extract discriminative information from the TRE feature. Finally, we validate the proposed method on two popular datasets, and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art performance.