CIFAKE: Real and AI-Generated Synthetic Images

The quality of AI-generated images has rapidly increased, leading to concerns of authenticity and trustworthiness.

CIFAKE is a dataset that contains 60,000 synthetically-generated images and 60,000 real images (collected from CIFAR-10). Can computer vision techniques be used to detect when an image is real or has been generated by AI?

Further information on this dataset can be found here: Bird, J.J. and Lotfi, A., 2024. CIFAKE: Image Classification and Explainable Identification of AI-Generated Synthetic Images. IEEE Access.

Dataset details

The dataset contains two classes - REAL and FAKE.

For REAL, we collected the images from Krizhevsky & Hinton's CIFAR-10 dataset

For the FAKE images, we generated the equivalent of CIFAR-10 with Stable Diffusion version 1.4

There are 100,000 images for training (50k per class) and 20,000 for testing (10k per class)

Papers with Code

The dataset and all studies using it are linked using Papers with Code https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/cifake-real-and-ai-generated-synthetic-images

References

If you use this dataset, you must cite the following sources

Krizhevsky, A., & Hinton, G. (2009). Learning multiple layers of features from tiny images.

Bird, J.J. and Lotfi, A., 2024. CIFAKE: Image Classification and Explainable Identification of AI-Generated Synthetic Images. IEEE Access.

Real images are from Krizhevsky & Hinton (2009), fake images are from Bird & Lotfi (2024). The Bird & Lotfi study is available here.

Notes

The updates to the dataset on the 28th of March 2023 did not change anything; the file formats ".jpeg" were renamed ".jpg" and the root folder was uploaded to meet Kaggle's usability requirements.

License

This dataset is published under the same MIT license as CIFAR-10:

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The authors used the CIFAR-10 dataset for evaluating the quality of unsupervised representation learning algorithms.