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Aref Azizpour

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Drexel University
aa4639 (at) drexel.edu


About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Drexel University. My research focuses on computer vision and AI-generated media forensics, with an emphasis on robust detection, attribution, and adaptation to emerging generative models.

My broader research interests lie in developing reliable and adaptive AI systems that can operate under distribution shifts and rapidly evolving generative technologies.

Research Interests

Computer Vision · AI-Generated Media Forensics · Open-World Machine Learning · Anomaly Detection · Self-Supervised Learning

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Publications

  1. Autonomous and Self-Adapting System for Synthetic Media Detection and Attribution
    Aref Azizpour, Tai D. Nguyen, Matthew C. Stamm
    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision WACV, 2027.
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  2. Video Forensic Self-Descriptions: Leveraging Temporally Distributed Forensic Microstructures for Zero-Shot Detection of AI-Generated Videos
    Aref Azizpour, Tai D. Nguyen, Matthew C. Stamm
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026.
    Oral Presentation

  3. Seeing the Unseen: Enhancing Synthetic Video Detector Transferability to New AI Video Generation Models via Virtual Generators
    Danial Samadi Vahdati, Tai D. Nguyen, Aref Azizpour, Hamed Ahangari, Matthew C. Stamm
    ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec), 2026.
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  4. Forensic Self-Descriptions Are All You Need for Zero-Shot Detection, Open-Set Source Attribution, and Clustering of AI-generated Images
    Tai D. Nguyen, Aref Azizpour, Matthew C. Stamm
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
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  5. E3: Ensemble of Expert Embedders for Adapting Synthetic Image Detectors to New Generators Using Limited Data
    Aref Azizpour, Tai D. Nguyen, Manil Shrestha, Kaidi Xu, Edward Kim, Matthew C. Stamm
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2024.
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  6. Beyond Deepfake Images: Detecting AI-Generated Videos
    Danial Samadi Vahdati, Tai D. Nguyen, Aref Azizpour, Matthew C. Stamm
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2024.
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