Dissecting Agentic Forensics: The Role of Triage, Prompting, and Evidence Arbitration in Open-World Fake Image Detection

arXiv:2609.24359 · cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

Comments: Accepted at the 2026 Workshop on AI for Multimedia Forensics and Disinformation Detection (AI4MFDD), ECCV 2026. 34 pages (17 main paper incl. references, 17 appendix), 7 figures, 5 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 33× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distribution Shift — 11× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Trace — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Framework — 7× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Aggregation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Agentic AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Provenance — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic Approaches — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Components — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaborative Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Towards Reliable Identification of Diffusion-based Image Manipulations
• ForgeryGPT: A Multimodal LLM for Interpretable Image Forgery Detection and Localization
• From Evidence to Verdict: An Agent-Based Forensic Framework for AI-Generated Image Detection
• Reinforced Agent: Inference-Time Feedback for Tool-Calling Agents
• AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
• Code-in-the-Loop Forensics: Agentic Tool Use for Image Forgery Detection
• EvoGuard: An Extensible Agentic RL-based Framework for Practical and Evolving AI-Generated Image Detection

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