A Photographer Guided Framework for Web Image Falsification Detection Using Vision Language Models and Segmentation Tools

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Aldi Muhamad Fitrah, Nanang Husin

2025 2025 13th International Conference on Cyber and IT Service Management, CITSM 2025 Conference paper Cited by 0 Quartile

Abstract

While Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can assess basic caption image consistency, they lack the visual understanding required to detect complex forgeries. This research used a pipeline that combines a ViT-based anomaly triage and a visually grounded dialogue using an LLaVA family VLM with SAM-based masking based on photographer-guided experience. The proposed model integrates the perceptual expertise of a photographer with the analytical power of modern Vision Language Models (VLM) and Segmentation Tools to facilitate an interactive, evidence-based analysis. The data taken from CASIA v2.0 and COVERAGE evaluation shows novice accuracy improving from 48% (unaided) and 55% (basic multimodal) to 85% with the proposed framework. This photographer-guided approach improves the ability of non-experts to detect and articulate image manipulations compared to both unaided analysis and basic automated multimodal methods. © 2025 IEEE.

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Concentration in Journalism Pasundan University, Department of Photography, Indonesia; State University of Surabaya Surabaya, Department of Digital Business, Indonesia

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