Synthetic Image Detection: Highlights from the IEEE Video and Image
  Processing Cup 2022 Student Competition
Davide Cozzolino Koki Nagano Lucas Thomaz Angshul Majumdar Luisa Verdoliva
The Video and Image Processing (VIP) Cup is a student competition that takes
place each year at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. The
2022 IEEE VIP Cup asked undergraduate students to develop a system capable of
distinguishing pristine images from generated ones. The interest in this topic
stems from the incredible advances in the AI-based generation of visual data,
with tools that allows the synthesis of highly realistic images and videos.
While this opens up a large number of new opportunities, it also undermines the
trustworthiness of media content and fosters the spread of disinformation on
the internet. Recently there was strong concern about the generation of
extremely realistic images by means of editing software that includes the
recent technology on diffusion models. In this context, there is a need to
develop robust and automatic tools for synthetic image detection.