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Thanasis Pantsios, Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Christos Koutlis, George Karantaidis, Olga Papadopoulou, Symeon Papadopoulos
The rapid advancement of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced significant challenges for reliable AI-generated image detection. Existing detectors often suffer from performance degradation under distribution shifts and when encountering newly emerging generative models. In this work, we propose a data-centric continual adaptation framework for updating detectors in evolving environments. We show that both in-the-wild data and generator-driven data are essential for adapting detectors. We introduce an automated, weakly supervised pipeline for constructing in-the-wild datasets through fact-check article retrieval. Additionally, we demonstrate that incorporating even a small amount of generator-driven data during training enables effective adaptation to newly emerging models, while combining it with in-the-wild data within a continual learning framework enables robust adaptation and mitigates catastrophic forgetting. Extensive experiments on two state-of-the-art detectors show significant improvements of +9.14% and +8% in average accuracy, respectively.
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@article{pantsios2026automated,
title = {Automated In-the-Wild Data Collection for Continual AI Generated Image Detection},
author = {Thanasis Pantsios and Dimitrios Karageorgiou and Christos Koutlis and George Karantaidis and Olga Papadopoulou and Symeon Papadopoulos},
year = {2026},
abstract = {The rapid advancement of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced significant challenges for reliable AI-generated image detection. Existing detectors often suffer from performance degradation under distribution shifts and when encountering newly emerging generative models. In this work, we propose a data-centric continual adaptation framework for updating detectors in evolving environments. We show that both in-the-wild data and generator-driven data are essential for adapting det},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02567},
keywords = {cs.CV},
eprint = {2605.02567},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}
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