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Article

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

Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, 1342 Seongnamdaero, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si 13120, Republic of Korea
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Electronics 2026, 15(3), 716; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15030716
Submission received: 6 January 2026 / Revised: 4 February 2026 / Accepted: 5 February 2026 / Published: 6 February 2026
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and 3D Display)

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.
Keywords: AI-generated image detection; forged forensics; frequency domain analysis; semantic analysis AI-generated image detection; forged forensics; frequency domain analysis; semantic analysis

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Man, Q.; Cho, Y.-I. Transformer Based on Multi-Domain Feature Fusion for AI-Generated Image Detection. Electronics 2026, 15, 716. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15030716

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Man Q, Cho Y-I. Transformer Based on Multi-Domain Feature Fusion for AI-Generated Image Detection. Electronics. 2026; 15(3):716. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15030716

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Man, Qiaoyue, and Young-Im Cho. 2026. "Transformer Based on Multi-Domain Feature Fusion for AI-Generated Image Detection" Electronics 15, no. 3: 716. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15030716

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Man, Q., & Cho, Y.-I. (2026). Transformer Based on Multi-Domain Feature Fusion for AI-Generated Image Detection. Electronics, 15(3), 716. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15030716

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