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Transformer Based on Multi-Domain Feature Fusion for AI-Generated Image Detection

Qiaoyue Man,Young-Im Cho

2026 · DOI: 10.3390/electronics15030716
Electronics · 1 Citations

TLDR

A novel hybrid transformer model that integrates spatial and frequency domains is proposed, which leverages CLIP to extract semantic inconsistencies in the image’s spatial domain while employing wavelet transforms to capture multi-scale frequency anomalies in AI-generated images.

Abstract

With the rapid advancement of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), diffusion models, and other deep generative techniques, AI-generated images have achieved unprecedented levels of visual realism, posing severe challenges to the authenticity, security, and credibility of digital content. This paper proposes a novel hybrid transformer model that integrates spatial and frequency domains. It leverages CLIP to extract semantic inconsistencies in the image’s spatial domain while employing wavelet transforms to capture multi-scale frequency anomalies in AI-generated images. After cross-domain feature fusion, global modeling is performed within the Swin-Transformer architecture, enabling robust authenticity detection of AI-generated images. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our detector maintains high accuracy across diverse datasets.