Object-level Copy-Move Forgery Image Detection based on Inconsistency Mining
This addresses tampering detection in digital images, an incremental improvement for forensic analysis.
The paper tackles the problem of detecting object-level copy-move forgeries in images, where tampering traces are concealed by techniques like blurring, and proposes IMNet, which achieves validated effectiveness and robustness on three public datasets.
In copy-move tampering operations, perpetrators often employ techniques, such as blurring, to conceal tampering traces, posing significant challenges to the detection of object-level targets with intact structures. Focus on these challenges, this paper proposes an Object-level Copy-Move Forgery Image Detection based on Inconsistency Mining (IMNet). To obtain complete object-level targets, we customize prototypes for both the source and tampered regions and dynamically update them. Additionally, we extract inconsistent regions between coarse similar regions obtained through self-correlation calculations and regions composed of prototypes. The detected inconsistent regions are used as supplements to coarse similar regions to refine pixel-level detection. We operate experiments on three public datasets which validate the effectiveness and the robustness of the proposed IMNet.