Image Splicing Forgery Detection Using Feature-Based of Sonine Functions and Deep Features

The growing prevalence of fake images on the Internet and social media makes image integrity verification a crucial research topic.One of the most popular methods for manipulating digital images is image splicing,which involves copying a specific area from one image and pasting it into another.Attempts were made to mitigate the effects of image splicing,which continues to be a significant research challenge.This study proposes a new splicing detectionmodel,combining Sonine functions-derived convex-based features and deep features.Two stages make up the proposed method.The first step entails feature extraction,then classification using the“support vector machine”(SVM)to differentiate authentic and spliced images.The proposed Sonine functions-based feature extraction model reveals the spliced texture details by extracting some clues about the probability of image pixels.The proposed model achieved an accuracy of 98.93% when tested with the CASIA V2.0 dataset“Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Automation”which is a publicly available dataset for forgery classification.The experimental results show that,for image splicing forgery detection,the proposed Sonine functions-derived convex-based features and deep features outperform state-of-the-art techniques in terms of accuracy,precision,and recall.Overall,the obtained detection accuracy attests to the benefit of using the Sonine functions alongside deep feature representations.Finding the regions or locations where image tampering has taken place is limited by the study.Future research will need to look into advanced image analysis techniques that can offer a higher degree of accuracy in identifying and localizing tampering regions.

A Thorough Investigation on Image Forgery Detection

Image forging is the alteration of a digital image to conceal some of the necessary or helpful information.It cannot be easy to distinguish themodified region fromthe original image in somecircumstances.The demand for authenticity and the integrity of the image drive the detection of a fabricated image.There have been cases of ownership infringements or fraudulent actions by counterfeiting multimedia files,including re-sampling or copy-moving.This work presents a high-level view of the forensics of digital images and their possible detection approaches.This work presents a thorough analysis of digital image forgery detection techniques with their steps and effectiveness.These methods have identified forgery and its type and compared it with state of the art.This work will help us to find the best forgery detection technique based on the different environments.It also shows the current issues in other methods,which can help researchers find future scope for further research in this field.

Mining Fine-Grain Face Forgery Cues with Fusion Modality

Face forgery detection is drawing ever-increasing attention in the academic community owing to security concerns.Despite the considerable progress in existing methods,we note that:Previous works overlooked finegrain forgery cues with high transferability.Such cues positively impact the model’s accuracy and generalizability.Moreover,single-modality often causes overfitting of the model,and Red-Green-Blue(RGB)modal-only is not conducive to extracting the more detailed forgery traces.We propose a novel framework for fine-grain forgery cues mining with fusion modality to cope with these issues.First,we propose two functional modules to reveal and locate the deeper forged features.Our method locates deeper forgery cues through a dual-modality progressive fusion module and a noise adaptive enhancement module,which can excavate the association between dualmodal space and channels and enhance the learning of subtle noise features.A sensitive patch branch is introduced on this foundation to enhance the mining of subtle forgery traces under fusion modality.The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed framework can desirably explore the differences between authentic and forged images with supervised learning.Comprehensive evaluations of several mainstream datasets show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art detection methods with remarkable detection ability and generalizability.

Detection of Copy-Move Forgery in Digital Images Using Singular Value Decomposition

This paper presents an improved approach for detecting copy-move forgery based on singular value decomposition(SVD).It is a block-based method where the image is scanned from left to right and top to down by a sliding window with a determined size.At each step,the SVD is determined.First,the diagonal matrix’s maximum value(norm)is selected(representing the scaling factor for SVD and a fixed value for each set of matrix elements even when rotating thematrix or scaled).Then,the similar norms are grouped,and each leading group is separated into many subgroups(elements of each subgroup are neighbors)according to 8-adjacency(the subgroups for each leading group must be far from others by a specific distance).After that,a weight is assigned for each subgroup to classify the image as forgery or not.Finally,the F1 score of the proposed system is measured,reaching 99.1%.This approach is robust against rotation,scaling,noisy images,and illumination variation.It is compared with other similarmethods and presents very promised results.

Metaheuristics with Optimal Deep Transfer Learning Based Copy-Move Forgery Detection Technique

The extensive availability of advanced digital image technologies and image editing tools has simplified the way of manipulating the image content.An effective technique for tampering the identification is the copy-move forgery.Conventional image processing techniques generally search for the patterns linked to the fake content and restrict the usage in massive data classification.Contrast-ingly,deep learning(DL)models have demonstrated significant performance over the other statistical techniques.With this motivation,this paper presents an Optimal Deep Transfer Learning based Copy Move Forgery Detection(ODTL-CMFD)technique.The presented ODTL-CMFD technique aims to derive a DL model for the classification of target images into the original and the forged/tampered,and then localize the copy moved regions.To perform the feature extraction process,the political optimizer(PO)with Mobile Networks(MobileNet)model has been derived for generating a set of useful vectors.Finally,an enhanced bird swarm algorithm(EBSA)with least square support vector machine(LS-SVM)model has been employed for classifying the digital images into the original or the forged ones.The utilization of the EBSA algorithm helps to properly modify the parameters contained in the Multiclass Support Vector Machine(MSVM)technique and thereby enhance the classification performance.For ensuring the enhanced performance of the ODTL-CMFD technique,a series of simulations have been performed against the benchmark MICC-F220,MICC-F2000,and MICC-F600 datasets.The experimental results have demonstrated the improvised performance of the ODTL-CMFD approach over the other techniques in terms of several evaluation measures.

An Active Image Forgery Detection Approach Based on Edge Detection

Recently, digital images have become the most used data, thanks tohigh internet speed and high resolution, cheap and easily accessible digitalcameras. We generate, transmit and store millions of images every second.Most of these images are insignificant images containing only personal information.However, in many fields such as banking, finance, public institutions,and educational institutions, the images of many valuable objects like IDcards, photographs, credit cards, and transaction receipts are stored andtransmitted to the digital environment. These images are very significantand must be secured. A valuable image can be maliciously modified by anattacker. The modification of an image is sometimes imperceptible even by theperson who stored the image. In this paper, an active image forgery detectionmethod that encodes and decodes image edge information is proposed. Theproposed method is implemented by designing an interface and applied on atest image which is frequently used in the literature. Various tampering attacksare simulated to test the fidelity of the method. The method not only notifieswhether the image is forged or not but also marks the tampered region ofthe image. Also, the proposed method successfully detected tampered regionsafter geometric attacks, even on self-copy attacks. Also, it didn’t fail on JPEGcompression.

Deep Learning-Based Digital Image Forgery Detection Using Transfer Learning

Deep learning is considered one of the most efficient and reliable methods through which the legitimacy of a digital image can be verified.In the current cyber world where deepfakes have shaken the global community,confirming the legitimacy of a digital image is of great importance.With the advancements made in deep learning techniques,now we can efficiently train and develop state-of-the-art digital image forensic models.The most traditional and widely used method by researchers is convolution neural networks(CNN)for verification of image authenticity but it consumes a considerable number of resources and requires a large dataset for training.Therefore,in this study,a transfer learning based deep learning technique for image forgery detection is proposed.The proposed methodology consists of three modules namely;preprocessing module,convolutional module,and the classification module.By using our proposed technique,the training time is drastically reduced by utilizing the pre-trained weights.The performance of the proposed technique is evaluated by using benchmark datasets,i.e.,BOW and BOSSBase that detect five forensic types which include JPEG compression,contrast enhancement(CE),median filtering(MF),additive Gaussian noise,and resampling.We evaluated the performance of our proposed technique by conducting various experiments and case scenarios and achieved an accuracy of 99.92%.The results show the superiority of the proposed system.

A Survey on Digital Image Copy-Move Forgery Localization Using Passive Techniques

Digital images can be tampered easily with simple image editing software tools.Therefore,image forensic investigation on the authenticity of digital images’content is increasingly important.Copy-move is one of the most common types of image forgeries.Thus,an overview of the traditional and the recent copy-move forgery localization methods using passive techniques is presented in this paper.These methods are classified into three types:block-based methods,keypoint-based methods,and deep learning-based methods.In addition,the strengths and weaknesses of these methods are compared and analyzed in robustness and computational cost.Finally,further research directions are discussed.

Multiple Forgery Detection in Video Using Convolution Neural Network

With the growth of digital media data manipulation in today’s era due to the availability of readily handy tampering software,the authenticity of records is at high risk,especially in video.There is a dire need to detect such problem and do the necessary actions.In this work,we propose an approach to detect the interframe video forgery utilizing the deep features obtained from the parallel deep neural network model and thorough analytical computations.The proposed approach only uses the deep features extracted from the CNN model and then applies the conventional mathematical approach to these features to find the forgery in the video.This work calculates the correlation coefficient from the deep features of the adjacent frames rather than calculating directly from the frames.We divide the procedure of forgery detection into two phases–video forgery detection and video forgery classification.In video forgery detection,this approach detect input video is original or tampered.If the video is not original,then the video is checked in the next phase,which is video forgery classification.In the video forgery classification,method review the forged video for insertion forgery,deletion forgery,and also again check for originality.The proposed work is generalized and it is tested on two different datasets.The experimental results of our proposed model show that our approach can detect the forgery with the accuracy of 91%on VIFFD dataset,90%in TDTV dataset and classify the type of forgery–insertion and deletion with the accuracy of 82%on VIFFD dataset,86%on TDTV dataset.This work can helps in the analysis of original and tempered video in various domain.

Efficient Forgery Detection Approaches for Digital Color Images

This paper is concerned with a vital topic in image processing:color image forgery detection. The development of computing capabilitieshas led to a breakthrough in hacking and forgery attacks on signal, image,and data communicated over networks. Hence, there is an urgent need fordeveloping efficient image forgery detection algorithms. Two main types offorgery are considered in this paper: splicing and copy-move. Splicing isperformed by inserting a part of an image into another image. On the otherhand, copy-move forgery is performed by copying a part of the image intoanother position in the same image. The proposed approach for splicingdetection is based on the assumption that illumination between the originaland tampered images is different. To detect the difference between the originaland tampered images, the homomorphic transform separates the illuminationcomponent from the reflectance component. The illumination histogramderivative is used for detecting the difference in illumination, and henceforgery detection is accomplished. Prior to performing the forgery detectionprocess, some pre-processing techniques, including histogram equalization,histogram matching, high-pass filtering, homomorphic enhancement, andsingle image super-resolution, are introduced to reinforce the details andchanges between the original and embedded sections. The proposed approachfor copy-move forgery detection is performed with the Speeded Up RobustFeatures (SURF) algorithm, which extracts feature points and feature vectors. Searching for the copied partition is accomplished through matchingwith Euclidian distance and hierarchical clustering. In addition, some preprocessing methods are used with the SURF algorithm, such as histogramequalization and single-mage super-resolution. Simulation results proved thefeasibility and the robustness of the pre-processing step in homomorphicdetection and SURF detection algorithms for splicing and copy-move forgerydetection, respectively.

Detecting JPEG image forgery based on double compression

Detecting the forgery parts from a double compressed image is very important and urgent work for blind authentication. A very simple and efficient method for accomplishing the task is proposed. Firstly, the probabilistic model with periodic effects in double quantization is analyzed, and the probability of quantized DCT coefficients in each block is calculated over the entire iraage. Secondly, the posteriori probability of each block is computed according to Bayesian theory and the results mentioned in first part. Then the mean and variance of the posteriori probability are to be used for judging whether the target block is tampered. Finally, the mathematical morphology operations are performed to reduce the false alarm probability. Experimental results show that the method can exactly locate the doctored part, and through the experiment it is also found that for detecting the tampered regions, the higher the second compression quality is, the more exact the detection efficiency is.

ITALIAN MONEY TESTED FOR FORGERY BY MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY

Italian money has been investigated by Mossbauer spectroscopy. The results indicated that the spectrum of a 10000 lire bank-note consisted of three magnetic sextets and two quadrupole doublets, the spectrum of a 50000 lire note consisted of two Zeeman sextets, but in the "false" money there are two quadrupole doublets only.

Extended Forgery Detection Framework for COVID-19 Medical Data Using Convolutional Neural Network

Medical data tampering has become one of the main challenges in the field of secure-aware medical data processing.Forgery of normal patients’medical data to present them as COVID-19 patients is an illegitimate action that has been carried out in different ways recently.Therefore,the integrity of these data can be questionable.Forgery detection is a method of detecting an anomaly in manipulated forged data.An appropriate number of features are needed to identify an anomaly as either forged or non-forged data in order to find distortion or tampering in the original data.Convolutional neural networks(CNNs)have contributed a major breakthrough in this type of detection.There has been much interest from both the clinicians and the AI community in the possibility of widespread usage of artificial neural networks for quick diagnosis using medical data for early COVID-19 patient screening.The purpose of this paper is to detect forgery in COVID-19 medical data by using CNN in the error level analysis(ELA)by verifying the noise pattern in the data.The proposed improved ELA method is evaluated using a type of data splicing forgery and sigmoid and ReLU phenomenon schemes.The proposed method is verified by manipulating COVID-19 data using different types of forgeries and then applying the proposed CNN model to the data to detect the data tampering.The results show that the accuracy of the proposed CNN model on the test COVID-19 data is approximately 92%.

Protecting the trust and credibility of data by tracking forgery trace based on GANs

With the advent of the 5G Internet of Things era,communication and social interaction in our daily life have changed a lot,and a large amount of social data is transmitted to the Internet.At the same time,with the rapid development of deep forgery technology,a new generation of social data trust crisis has also followed.Therefore,how to ensure the trust and credibility of social data in the 5G Internet of Things era is an urgent problem to be solved.This paper proposes a new method for forgery detection based on GANs.We first discover the hidden gradient information in the grayscale image of the forged image and use this gradient information to guide the generation of forged traces.In the classifier,we replace the traditional binary loss with the focal loss that can focus on difficult-to-classify samples,which can achieve accurate classification when the real and fake samples are unbalanced.Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve high accuracy on the DeeperForensics dataset and with the highest accuracy is 98%.

A NEW FORGERY ATTACK ON MESSAGE RECOVERY SIGNATURES

After extending the forgery attacks to Nyberg-Rueppel’s signatures with message recovery, Atsuko Miyaji in 1997 proposed two suitable message recovery signatures, (F1) and (F2). In this paper, another new forgery attacks to (F1), (F2) and Nyberg-Rueppel’s signatures are presented.

Exposing Image Forgery with Inconsistent Reflection Line Midpoint

In recent years,there has been a backlash of sorts and the authenticity of images has been routinely questioned.Seeing is no longer believing.There is an urgent need for robust image forensic techniques to expose photo forgery.This paper proposed a novel and effective technique to expose image forgery using inconsistent reflection.More specifically,a new technique was presented to calculate reflection line midpoint,the definition of midpoint ratio was given,and three standards were proposed and employed to detect image forgery.Accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed technique were evaluated using a data set consisting of 200 authentic and forged images.Experimental results indicate that the proposed method can detect image forgery with very high success rate.

Fast Forgery Detection with the Intrinsic Resampling Properties

With the rapid progress of the image processing software, the image forgery can leave no visual clues on the tampered regions and make us unable to authenticate the image. In general, the image forgery technologies often utilizes the scaling, rotation or skewing operations to tamper some regions in the image, in which the resampling and interpolation processes are often demanded. By observing the detectable periodic distribution properties generated from the resampling and interpolation processes, we propose a novel method based on the intrinsic properties of resampling scheme to detect the tampered regions. The proposed method applies the pre-calculated resampling weighting table to detect the periodic properties of prediction error distribution. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional methods in terms of efficiency and accuracy.

A Survey of Anti-forensic for Face Image Forgery

Deep learning related technologies,especially generative adversarial network,are widely used in the fields of face image tampering and forgery.Forensics researchers have proposed a variety of passive forensic and related anti-forensic methods for image tampering and forgery,especially face images,but there is still a lack of overview of anti-forensic methods at this stage.Therefore,this paper will systematically discuss the anti-forensic methods for face image tampering and forgery.Firstly,this paper expounds the relevant background,including the relevant tampering and forgery methods and forensic schemes of face images.The former mainly includes four aspects:conventional processing,fake face generation,face editing and face swapping;The latter is mainly the relevant forensic means based on spatial domain and frequency domain using deep learning technology.Then,this paper divides the existing anti-forensic works into three categories according to their method characteristics,namely hiding operation traces,forgery reconstruction and adversarial attack.Finally,this paper summarizes the limitations and prospects of the existing anti-forensic technologies.

Detection of Copy-Scale-Move Forgery in Digital Images Using SFOP and MROGH

Social network platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are one of the fastest and most convenient means for sharing digital images. Digital images are generally accepted as credible news but, it may undergo some manipulations before being shared without leaving any obvious traces of tampering; due to existence of the powerful image editing softwares. Copy-move forgery technique is a very simple and common type of image forgery, where a part of the image is copied and then pasted in the same image to replicate or hide some parts from the image. In this paper, we proposed a copy-scale-move forgery detection method based on Scale Invariant Feature Operator (SFOP) detector. The keypoints are then described using MROGH descriptor. Experimental results show that the proposed method is able to locate and detect the forgery even if under some geometric transformations such as scaling.

Video Inter-Frame Forgery Identification Based on Consistency of Correlation Coefficients of Gray Values

Identifying inter-frame forgery is a hot topic in video forensics. In this paper, we propose a method based on the assumption that the correlation coefficients of gray values is consistent in an original video, while in forgeries the consistency will be destroyed. We first extract the consistency of correlation coefficients of gray values (CCCoGV for short) after normalization and quantization as distinguishing feature to identify interframe forgeries. Then we test the CCCoGV in a large database with the help of SVM (Support Vector Machine). Experimental results show that the proposed method is efficient in classifying original videos and forgeries. Furthermore, the proposed method performs also pretty well in classifying frame insertion and frame deletion forgeries.