FUSED: Forensic-Semantic Mixture-of-Experts for AI Inpainting Detection and Localization

[2608.28302] FUSED: Forensic-Semantic Mixture-of-Experts for AI Inpainting Detection and Localization Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition arXiv:2608.28302 (cs) [Submitted on 28 Aug 2026] Title: FUSED: Forensic-Semantic Mixture-of-Experts for AI Inpainting Detection and Localization Authors: Anton Nuzhdin , Marcel Worring , Ivona Najdenkoska View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Diffusion-based inpainting models modify only a localized part of an image, while many AI-image detectors rely on global artifacts and do not localize. These artifacts vary across generators, limiting detector transfer under distribution shifts. Recent work shows that restoring the authentic pixels outside the inpainted region removes these cues and can degrade pretrained detectors. To address this, we present FUSED, a unified framework for the joint detection and localization of AI-generated inpainting. FUSED combines low-level forensic cues with high-level semantic features using a sparsely-gated Mixture-of-Experts architecture, enabling the model to adaptively prioritize the most relevant signal for each token. For each input, FUSED predicts both an image-level manipulation score and a pixel-level mask of the inpainted area. On the OpenSDID cross-generator benchmark, FUSED achieves the best average detection and localization, with the largest gains on unseen generators. The same model transfers directly to the held-out AutoSplice and CocoGlide benchmarks, more than doubling localization performance. Evaluating each held-out benchmark with and without the global generator artifact further shows that all evaluated methods, ours included, partly read the artifact as evidence of manipulation, and FUSED remains the strongest under both conditions. Code and pretrained models are available at this https URL . Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2608.28302 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2608.28302v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.28302 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Anton Nuzhdin [ view email ] [v1] Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:05:43 UTC (20,711 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.CV < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab)

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