Image tampering detection using dynamic histogram equalization based LIOP features and novel scaled K-means + + clustering

Copy-move forgery is one of the most commonly used forgeries in digital images, in which some regions of a digital image is coped and pasted to another part of the image with the aim of concealing certain features or objects in the original images. In this paper, a novel copy-move forgery detection scheme in digital images is proposed. It treats the digital images as high dimensional data and uses the intrinsic dimension estimation method first to segment the image and then identify the copy-move forgeries in the image regions with the same texture. Experimental results show that the proposed method is efficient and robust to retouching and many other operations, such as lossy compression, blurring, filtering, etc.

In recent years, as the technology improves, every discipline like public, medical, military and forensic has digital images. digital images that are referenced in almost every area can be easily falsified by the use of image editing software by malicious people. Most common forgery method on images is copy-move forgery. In this work, a block based method is proposed in order to detect copy-move forgery. Fetaures extracted from blocks by using Local Density Row Pattern (LIOP) which is a new and more efficient method is added to PatchMatch algorithm in order to detect copy-move forgeries in a faster way. Moreover these are compared with recent works and Attack resistance is tested. Experimental results have reported performance that proposed algorithm detects copy-move forgery even if attacks are noise, blurring, rotation, scaling and JPEG compressing.

Copy-move forgery is a general widespread type of digital image forgery, where a segment of an image is attached into a new portion of the similar image to hide or replicate the parts which are called forgered image. The forgered image appears original, as the objective region in spite of being forged, has attained the fundamental qualities of the similar image itself. The capability of the copy-move forgery detection (CMFD) technique is lacked due to some post-processing functions, like JPEG compression scaling, or rotation, etc. Therefore, this paper intends to develop a CMFD using Scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), best-fin-first algorithm (BBF) and RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC) directed by grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm. Initially, the keypoints are selected using SIFT principle, and BBF algorithm identifies the matched keypoints using keypoint threshold. Further, SIFT feature descriptor is determined, and the final extracted paired keypoints are given to RANSAC algorithm to remove all the mismatched keypoints. In this CMFD model, the parameters such as parameters keypoint threshold, maximum distance of inliers in RANSAC and distance threshold in SIFT features are optimized using GWO. The foremost purpose of this research work is maximizing the number of paired keypoints. Hence the proposed model is termed as GWO-based parameter optimization for CMFD (GWPO-CMD). The proposed model is compared over several other meta-heuristic-based keypoint threshold selections and proves its efficiency through diverse analysis.

Copy Move Forgery Detection based on double matching

The progression and diversification of methodologies in digital image forensics and manipulation detection are evident in existing work, presenting innovative techniques tailored to specific aspects of forgery detection. These methodologies encompass various challenges such as copy-move forgery, manipulation detection, demosaicing artifacts, image splicing, edge detection, and compression analysis. Together, these studies exemplify ongoing efforts to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and reliability of forgery detection methods within the constantly evolving landscape of digital image manipulation. The proposed image forgery detection system represents a pioneering advancement, surpassing the limitations of conventional methodologies. It integrates a comprehensive array of detection techniques, including copy-move analysis, color filter array scrutiny, noise variance inconsistency detection, and double JPEG artifact identification. These techniques are bolstered by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This innovative fusion not only addresses the limitations inherent in existing systems but also signifies a significant leap forward in functionality and efficacy. By synergistically leveraging the strengths of each detection method within a CNN framework, our approach promises heightened accuracy, robustness, and adaptability in discerning even the most sophisticated forms of image tampering. Keywords— Image Tampering, Double JPEG Compression, Demosaicing Artifacts, Recursive Edge Detection, Copy-Move Forgery Detection.

On Image Forgery Detection Using Two Dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform and Statistical Moments

The credence of digital images in terms of their authenticity and integrity especially in medical records, scientific publications, celebrity magazines, news items, political campaigns or when presented as a proof in a courtroom is being questioned as easy to use and cost-effective image editing tools with malicious intend can be used to make copy-move forgery to these images. Consequently, efficient, fast, robust, and computer vision-based image forgery detection technique have become essential to ensure digital image authenticity and integrity. The current work surveys recent progress of copy-move forgery detection technologies to identify factors that impede forgery detection and reviews accuracy of different proposed methods. The work presents a broader classification of different image forgery detection techniques along with their pros and cons. Further, a comprehensive study of block-based copy-move forgery detection methods has been made and discussed with respect to performance evaluation parameters including feature vector length, block size, precision, recall, and F1 score.

Block-based copy-move forgery detection (CMFD) methods work with features from overlapping blocks. As overlapping blocks are involved, thresholds related to similarity and the physical distances are defined to identify the duplicated regions. However, these thresholds are controlled manually in localising the forged regions. In order to overcome this, an intelligent block matching approach for localisation is proposed using colour and texture features (CTF) through firefly algorithm. Investigation of the proposed CTF method is carried out on a standard database, which achieved an average true detection rate of 0.98 and an average false detection rate of 0.07. The proposed CTF method is robust against brightness change, colour reduction, blurring, contrast adjustment attacks, and additive white Gaussian noise. Performance analysis of the CTF method validates its superiority over other existing methods.

Copy-move is one of the most common image forgeries, wherein one or more region are copied and pasted within the same image. The motivations of such forgery include hiding an element in the image or emphasizing a particular object. Copy-move image forgery is more challenging to detect than other types, such as splicing and retouching. Keypoint based copy-move forgery detection extracts image keypoints and uses local visual features to identify duplicated regions, which exhibits remarkable performance with respect to memory requirement and robustness against various attacks. However, these approaches fail to handle the cases when copy-move forgeries only involve small or smooth regions, where the number of keypoints is very limited. Also, they generally have higher time costs owing to complex feature descriptor and more error matching points. To tackle these challenges, we propose a fast and effective copy-move forgery detection method through adaptive keypoint extraction and processing, introducing fast robust invariant feature, and filtering out the wrong pairs. Firstly, the uniform distribution keypoints are extracted adaptively from the forged image by employing the fast approximated LoG filter and performing the uniformity processing. Then, the image keypoints are described using fast robust invariant feature and matched through the Rg2NN algorithm. Finally, the falsely matched pairs are removed by employing the segmentation based candidate clustering, and the duplicated regions are localized using optimized mean-residual normalized production correlation. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, in which encouraging results validate the effectiveness of the proposed technique, in comparison with the state-of-the-art approaches recently proposed in the literature.

Because digitized images are easily replicated or manipulated, copy-move forgery techniques are rendered possible with minimal expertise. Furthermore, it is difficult to verify the authenticity of images. Therefore, numerous efforts have been made to detect copy-move forgeries. In this paper, we present an improved region duplication detection algorithm based on the keypoints. The proposed algorithm utilizes the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) and the reduced local binary pattern (LBP) histogram. The LBP values with 256 levels are obtained from the local window centered at the keypoint, which are then reduced to 10 levels. For a keypoint, a 138-dimensional is generated to detect copy-move forgery. We test the proposed algorithm on various image datasets and compare the detection accuracy with those of existing methods. The experimental results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed scheme is superior to that of other tested copy-move forgery detection methods. Furthermore, the proposed method exhibits a uniform detection performance for various types of test datasets.

The growing demand for sustainable and energy-efficient buildings has highlighted the need for reliable and accurate methods to detect fenestration deterioration and assess UV radiation transmission. Traditional detection techniques, such as spectrophotometers and radiometers, discussed in Part I, are often expensive and invasive, necessitating more accessible and cost-effective solutions. This study, which is Part II, provides an in-depth exploration of the concepts and methodologies underlying UV bandpass-filtered imaging, advanced image processing techniques, and the mechanisms of pixel transformation equations. The aim is to lay the groundwork for a unified approach to detecting ultraviolet (UV) radiation transmission in fenestration glazing. By exploiting the capabilities of digital imaging devices, including widely accessible smartphones, and integrating them with robust segmentation techniques and mathematical transformations, this research paves the way for an innovative and potentially democratized approach to UV detection in fenestration glazing. However, further research is required to optimize and tailor the detection methods and approaches using digital imaging, UV photography, image processing, and computer vision for specific applications in the fenestration industry and detecting UV transmission. The complex interplay of various physical phenomena related to UV radiation, digital imaging, and the unique characteristics of fenestration glazing necessitates the development of a cohesive framework that synergizes these techniques while addressing these intricacies. While extensively reviewing existing techniques, this paper highlights these challenges and sets the direction for future research in the UV imaging domain.

Digital Image Forensics is a growing field of image processing that attempts to gain objective ‎proof ‎of the origin and veracity of a visual image. Copy-move forgery detection (CMFD) has ‎currently ‎become an active research topic in the passive/blind image forensics field. There has no ‎doubt that ‎conventional techniques and especially the keypoint based techniques have pushed the ‎CMFD ‎forward in the previous two decades. However, CMFD techniques in general and ‎conventional ‎techniques in particular suffer from several challenges. And thus, increasing approaches ‎are exploiting ‎deep learning for CMFD. In this survey, we cover the conventional and the ‎deep learning ‎based CMFD techniques from a new perspective. We classify the ‎CMFD techniques into several ‎classifications according to the detection methodology, the detection paradigm, and the detection ‎capability‎. We discuss the ‎challenges facing the CMFD techniques as well as the ways for solving ‎them. In addition, this survey covers the evaluation metrics‎ and datasets commonly utilized for ‎CMFD. Also, we are ‎debating and proposing certain plans for future research. This survey will be ‎helpful for the researchers’ ‎as it master the recent trends of CMFD and outline some future research ‎directions.‎

One of the easiest manipulation methods is a copy-move forgery, which adds or hides objects in the images with copies of certain parts at the same pictures. The combination of SIFT and Zernike Moments is one of many methods that helping to detect textured and smooth regions. However, this combination is slowest than SIFT individually. On the other hand, Gaussian Pyramid Decomposition helps to reduce computation time. Because of this finding, we examine the impact of Gaussian Pyramid Decomposition in copy-move detection with SIFT and Zernike Moments combinations. We conducted detection test in plain copy-move, copy-move with rotation transformation, copy-move with JPEG compression, multiple copy-move, copy-move with reflection attack, and copy-move with image inpainting. We also examine the detections result with different values of gaussian pyramid limit and different area separation ratios. In detection with plain copy-move images, it generates low level of accuracy, precision and recall of 58.46%, 18.21% and 69.39%, respectively. The results are getting worse in for copy-move detection with reflection attack and copy-move with image inpainting. This weakness happened because this method has not been able to detect the position of the part of the image that is considered symmetrical and check whether the forged part uses samples from other parts of the image.

Copy-move forgery is a type of image tampering that involves copying a portion of an image and pasting it to another part of the same image with the intention of deceiving the viewer. In recent years, many approaches have been proposed to detect copy-move forgery, including those based on local binary patterns (LBP). In this paper, we perform a comprehensive evaluation of LBP-based methods for copy-move forgery detection using a dataset of 50 digital images. We compare the performance of four LBP-based methods, namely LBP, SIFT and SURF using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. Our results show that LBP outperforms the other methods in terms of accuracy and F1-score, while SIFT has the highest precision and recall. We also investigate the effect of various parameters, such as patch size and threshold values, on the performance of LBP. Our study provides valuable insights into the strengths and weaknesses of LBP-based methods for copy-move forgery detection, which can guide future research in this area. This study evaluates the performance of Local Binary Patterns (LBP) for detecting copy-move forgery in digital images. LBP is a widely used feature extraction technique in image processing and has been applied to various computer vision tasks, including forgery detection. The comparative study involves analyzing the accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score of LBP and other popular forgery detection techniques, including SIFT and SURF, using a dataset of 50 digital images. The results show that LBP performs better than the other techniques, achieving an accuracy of 96.6%, precision of 94.0%, recall of 100%, and F1-score of 96.9%. This study provides useful insights for researchers and practitioners in the field of forgery detection, particularly for those interested in using LBP as a feature extraction technique.

Today, manipulating, storing, and sending digital images are simple and easy because of the development of digital imaging devices from hardware and software points of view. Digital images are used in different contexts of people’s lives such as news, forensics, and so on. Therefore, the reliability of received images is a question that often occupies the viewer’s mind and the authenticity of digital images is increasingly important. Detecting a forged image as a genuine one as well as detecting a genuine image as a forged one can sometimes have irreparable consequences. For example, an image that is available from the scene of a crime can lead to a wrong decision if it is detected incorrectly. In this paper, we propose a combination method to improve the accuracy of copy–move forgery detection (CMFD) reducing the false positive rate (FPR) based on texture attributes. The proposed method uses a combination of the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) and local binary pattern (LBP). Consideration of texture features around the keypoints detected by the SIFT algorithm can be effective to reduce the incorrect matches and improve the accuracy of CMFD. In addition, to find more and better keypoints some pre-processing methods have been proposed. This study was evaluated on the COVERAGE, GRIP, and MICC-F220 databases. Experimental results show that the proposed method without clustering or segmentation and only with simple matching operations, has been able to earn the true positive rates of 98.75%, 95.45%, and 87% on the GRIP, MICC-F220, and COVERAGE datasets, respectively. Also, the proposed method, with FPRs from 17.75% to 3.75% on the GRIP dataset, has been able to achieve the best results.