Percept-Lens: A Deep Dive into AI-Generated Image Detection
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Percept-Lens researchers tested whether a frozen general-purpose vision model plus a simple Gaussian decision rule can distinguish real from AI-generated images. They say their ECCV2026 results outperform the strongest released AI-generated image detector they tested on the same evaluation suite. The work shifts detector design toward extracting the real-vs-AI structure already present in existing vision model representations instead of relying only on task-specific training.