A PatchMatch-based Dense-field Algorithm for Video Copy-Move Detection and Localization
This addresses video forensics for security and media verification, but it is incremental as it builds on existing PatchMatch techniques for a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of detecting and localizing video copy-move forgeries, especially in challenging scenarios like occlusions, and proposes a dense-field algorithm using PatchMatch and invariant features, achieving good accuracy in adverse conditions.
We propose a new algorithm for the reliable detection and localization of video copy-move forgeries. Discovering well crafted video copy-moves may be very difficult, especially when some uniform background is copied to occlude foreground objects. To reliably detect both additive and occlusive copy-moves we use a dense-field approach, with invariant features that guarantee robustness to several post-processing operations. To limit complexity, a suitable video-oriented version of PatchMatch is used, with a multiresolution search strategy, and a focus on volumes of interest. Performance assessment relies on a new dataset, designed ad hoc, with realistic copy-moves and a wide variety of challenging situations. Experimental results show the proposed method to detect and localize video copy-moves with good accuracy even in adverse conditions.