The Video and Image Processing (VIP) Cup is a student competition that takes place each year at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. The 2022 IEEE VIP Cup asked undergraduate students to develop a system capable of distinguishing pristine images from generated ones. The interest in this topic stems from the incredible advances in the AI-based generation of visual data, with tools that allows the synthesis of highly realistic images and videos. While this opens up a large number of new opportunities, it also undermines the trustworthiness of media content and fosters the spread of disinformation on the internet. Recently there was strong concern about the generation of extremely realistic images by means of editing software that includes the recent technology on diffusion models. In this context, there is a need to develop robust and automatic tools for synthetic image detection.

翻译：视频与图像处理杯是每年在IEEE国际图像处理会议上举办的一项学生竞赛。2022年IEEE视频与图像处理杯要求本科生开发一个能够区分原始图像与生成图像的系统。该课题的兴起源于人工智能驱动的视觉数据生成领域的巨大进步，这些工具能够合成高度逼真的图像和视频。尽管这带来了大量新机遇，但也削弱了媒体内容的可信度，并加剧了互联网上虚假信息的传播。近期，人们对借助包含扩散模型最新技术的编辑软件生成极其逼真图像的问题产生了强烈担忧。在此背景下，亟需开发鲁棒且自动化的工具用于合成图像检测。