A new keypoint-based copy-move forgery detection for small smooth regions

Copy-move forgery is one of the most common types of image forgeries, where a region from one part of an image is copied and pasted onto another part, thereby concealing the image content in the latter region. Keypoint based copy-move forgery detection approaches extract image feature points and use local visual features, rather than image blocks, to identify duplicated regions. Keypoint based approaches exhibit remarkable performance with respect to computational cost, memory requirement, and robustness. But unfortunately, they usually do not work well if smooth background areas are used to hide small objects, as image keypoints cannot be extracted effectively from those areas. It is a challenging work to design a keypoint-based method for detecting forgeries involving small smooth regions. In this paper, we propose a new keypoint-based copy-move forgery detection for small smooth regions. Firstly, the original tampered image is segmented into nonoverlapping and irregular superpixels, and the superpixels are classified into smooth, texture and strong texture based on local information entropy. Secondly, the stable image keypoints are extracted from each superpixel, including smooth, texture and strong texture ones, by utilizing the superpixel content based adaptive feature points detector. Thirdly, the local visual features, namely exponent moments magnitudes, are constructed for each image keypoint, and the best bin first and reversed generalized 2 nearest-neighbor algorithm are utilized to find rapidly the matching image keypoints. Finally, the falsely matched image keypoints are removed by customizing the random sample consensus, and the duplicated regions are localized by using zero mean normalized cross-correlation measure. Extensive experimental results show that the newly proposed scheme can achieve much better detection results for copy-move forgery images under various challenging conditions, such as geometric transforms, JPEG compression, and additive white Gaussian noise, compared with the existing state-of-the-art copy-move forgery detection methods.     

一种基于自适应闭值的图像伪造检测算法

图像伪造检测是数字取证领域一个发展迅速的研究方向。复制一移动是最常见的图像伪造方式之一,其目的是通过隐藏或克隆对象来创建新的图像内容场景。复制一移动伪造检测的主要依据是图像中存在较大面积的相同或非常相似的区域对。针对以往检测方法对图像中存在同质纹理或均匀区域检测困难以及相关参数阂值选择不确定等现状,提出一种基于自适应阂值的图像复制一移动伪造检测算法,该算法不但使相关阂值的选择和估计更合理,而且能够自动识别和定位伪造区域。通过在包含同质或均匀区域的彩色伪造图像中的实验,进一步验证了本算法的有效性。     

JPEG图像双重压缩偏移量估计的篡改区域自动检测定位

目的 为了解决现有图像区域复制篡改检测算法只能识别图像中成对的相似区域而不能准确定位篡改区域的问题,提出一种基于JPEG(joint photographic experts group)图像双重压缩偏移量估计的篡改区域自动检测定位方法。方法 首先利用尺度不变特征变换(SIFT)算法提取图像的特征点和相应的特征向量,并采用最近邻算法对特征向量进行初步匹配,接下来结合特征点的色调饱和度(HSI)彩色特征进行优化匹配,消除彩色信息不一致引发的误匹配;然后利用随机样本一致性(RANSAC)算法对匹配对之间的仿射变换参数进行估计并消除错配,通过构建区域相关图确定完整的复制粘贴区域;最后根据对复制粘贴区域分别估计的JPEG双重压缩偏移量区分复制区域和篡改区域。结果 与经典SIFT和SURF(speeded up robust features)的检测方法相比,本文方法在实现较高检测率的同时,有效降低了检测虚警率。当第2次JPEG压缩的质量因子大于第1次时,篡改区域的检出率可以达到96%以上。 结论 本文方法可以有效定位JPEG图像的区域复制篡改区域,并且对复制区域的几何变换以及常见的后处理操作具有较强的鲁棒性。     

Geometric transformations parameters estimation from copy-move forgery using image blobs and keypoints

A copy-move forgery is a passive tampering wherein one or more regions have been copied and pasted within the same image. Often, geometric transformations, including scale, rotation, and rotation+scale are applied to the forged areas to conceal the counterfeits to the copy-move forgery detection methods. Recently, copy-move forgery detection using image blobs have been used to tackle the limitation of the existing detection methods. However, the main limitation of blobs-based copy-move forgery detection methods is the inability to perform the geometric transformation estimation. To tackle the above-mentioned limitation, this article presents a technique that detects copy-move forgery and estimates the geometric transformation parameters between the authentic region and its duplicate using image blobs and scale-rotation invariant keypoints. The proposed algorithm involves the following steps: image blobs are found in the image being analyzed; scale-rotation invariant features are extracted; the keypoints that are located within the same blob are identified; feature matching is performed between keypoints that are located within different blobs to find similar features; finally, the blobs with matched keypoints are post-processed and a 2D affine transformations is computed to estimate the geometric transformation parameters. Our technique is flexible and can easily take in various scale-rotation invariant keypoints including AKAZE, ORB, BRISK, SURF, and SIFT to enhance the effectiveness. The proposed algorithm is implemented and evaluated on images forged with copy-move regions combined with geometric transformation from standard datasets. The experimental results indicate that the new algorithm is effective for geometric transformation parameters estimation.

     

A passive authentication scheme for copy-move forgery based on package clustering algorithm

Copy-move forgery as one of popular methods is widely used to tamper digital images. Passive authentication is extensively used to detect the copy-move forgery images. This paper proposes a passive authentication scheme for copy-move forgery based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and the package clustering algorithm. The copy regions and paste regions can be automatically detected in doctored digital images. This scheme works by first applying the DCT to small fixed image blocks to obtain their features and the size of feature vectors are reduced. Moreover, the package clustering algorithm is applied to replace the general lexicographic order technologies to improve the detection precision. The similar blocks can be found by comparing the feature vectors in each package. The experimental results represent that the proposed scheme can locate irregular and meaningful tampered regions and multiply duplicated regions in a suspicious image. The duplicated regions can also be located in digital images that are distorted by adding white Gaussian noise, Gaussian blurring and their mixed operations.     

基于多支持区域局部亮度序的图像伪造检测

图像伪造检测是目前数字图像处理领域中的一个研究热点,其中复制-粘贴是最常用的伪造手段。由于伪造区域在粘贴前会被进行一定的尺度、旋转、JPEG压缩、添加噪声等操作,这使得检测伪造区域具有一定的挑战性。针对图像复制-粘贴伪造技术,提出一种基于多支持区域局部亮度序模式（LIOP）的图像伪造检测算法。首先,利用最大稳定极值区域（MSER）算法提取具有仿射不变性的区域作为支持区域;其次,利用非抽样Contourlet变换得到不同尺度、不同分辨率和不同方向的多个支持区域;然后,在每个支持区域上提取同时具有旋转不变性和单调亮度不变性的LIOP描述子,并利用双向距离比值法实现特征初匹配;接着,采用空间聚类将匹配的特征进行归类,进而用随机抽样一致性（RANSAC）算法对每个归类进行几何变换参数估计;最后,使用必要的后处理等操作来检测出伪造区域。实验表明,提出的算法具有较高的伪造检测精度与可信度。     

Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching

Recently, the research of Internet of Things (IoT) and Multimedia Big Data (MBD) has been growing tremendously. Both IoT and MBD have a lot of multimedia data, which can be tampered easily. Therefore, the research of multimedia forensics is necessary. Copy-move is an important branch of multimedia forensics. In this paper, a novel copy-move forgery detection scheme using combined features and transitive matching is proposed. First, SIFT and LIOP are extracted as combined features from the input image. Second, transitive matching is used to improve the matching relationship. Third, a filtering approach using image segmentation is proposed to filter out false matches. Fourth, affine transformations are estimated between these image patches. Finally, duplicated regions are located based on those affine transformations. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can achieve much better detection results on the public database under various attacks.

     

利用Harris特征点和环形均值描述的图像区域复制篡改的被动取证

提出一种利用Harris特征点和环形均值描述的图像区域复制篡改检测算法。首先对图像进行自适应维纳滤波,并利用Harris算子提取图像的特征点,然后通过对每个特征点的环形邻域进行均值描述生成特征向量矩阵,并采用字典排序和阈值化处理进行相似性匹配,从而确定候选匹配点,最后利用RANSAC算法剔除错误的匹配点,实现复制和篡改区域的标识定位。实验结果表明,算法对于复制区域的旋转和翻转变换具有较强的鲁棒性,并且可以有效抵抗常见的后处理攻击,包括高斯模糊、加性高斯白噪声、JPEG压缩以及它们的混合操作,尤其能够抵抗非显著视觉结构的平坦区域和小区域的复制、粘贴、篡改操作。     

Accurate and robust localization of duplicated region in copy–move image forgery

Copy–move image forgery detection has recently become a very active research topic in blind image forensics. In copy–move image forgery, a region from some image location is copied and pasted to a different location of the same image. Typically, post-processing is applied to better hide the forgery. Using keypoint-based features, such as SIFT features, for detecting copy–move image forgeries has produced promising results. The main idea is detecting duplicated regions in an image by exploiting the similarity between keypoint-based features in these regions. In this paper, we have adopted keypoint-based features for copy–move image forgery detection; however, our emphasis is on accurate and robust localization of duplicated regions. In this context, we are interested in estimating the transformation (e.g., affine) between the copied and pasted regions more accurately as well as extracting these regions as robustly by reducing the number of false positives and negatives. To address these issues, we propose using a more powerful set of keypoint-based features, called MIFT, which shares the properties of SIFT features but also are invariant to mirror reflection transformations. Moreover, we propose refining the affine transformation using an iterative scheme which improves the estimation of the affine transformation parameters by incrementally finding additional keypoint matches. To reduce false positives and negatives when extracting the copied and pasted regions, we propose using “dense” MIFT features, instead of standard pixel correlation, along with hysteresis thresholding and morphological operations. The proposed approach has been evaluated and compared with competitive approaches through a comprehensive set of experiments using a large dataset of real images (i.e., CASIA v2.0). Our results indicate that our method can detect duplicated regions in copy–move image forgery with higher accuracy, especially when the size of the duplicated region is small.     

采用圆谐-傅里叶矩的图像区域复制粘贴篡改检测

现有检测方法大多对图像区域复制粘贴篡改的后处理操作鲁棒性不高.针对这种篡改技术,提出一种新的基于圆谐-傅里叶矩的区域篡改检测算法.首先将图像分为重叠的小块;然后提取每个图像块的圆谐-傅里叶矩作为特征向量并对其进行排序;最后根据阈值确定相似块,利用位移矢量阈值去除错误相似块以定位篡改区域.实验结果表明,该算法能有效抵抗噪声、高斯模糊、旋转等图像后处理操作,且与基于HU矩的方法相比有更好的检测结果.     

基于区域划分和四元数的彩色图像复制粘贴篡改检测

现有的篡改检测方法中特征点提取不充分会导致篡改检测精度不高,特征点描述符识别率差,针对该问题提出一种基于颜色矩的区域划分和四元数Hu矩的彩色图像复制粘贴篡改检测算法。首先,使用自适应形态重建算法对图像进行超像素分割,通过密度聚类算法对图像自适应划分区域;其次,提出一种关键点提取方法得到均匀的SIFT特征点;然后,在一种新颖的彩色图像四元数表示方法中构建局部高斯金字塔提取Hu矩特征;最后,利用2NN进行特征匹配后,结合Delaunay三角形算法定位出复制粘贴篡改区域。在公共数据集上的实验结果表明,该算法可以更有效地定位篡改区域。     

基于不变矩特征的图像区域复制粘贴篡改检测

针对一种常见的篡改手段--图像区域复制粘贴,提出了一种基于不变矩特征的检测方法。将图像分成多个重叠块,提取每块的不变矩特征与直方图特征,结合起来得到图像的特征矢量。利用字典排序,依照预定的相似性标准,确定图像中的复制粘贴区域。实验结果表明,该算法在抗旋转操作方面明显优于经典的PCA检测算法,能准确检测出90°和180°的旋转。     

基于深度特征提取和DCT变换的图像复制粘贴篡改检测

针对图像复制粘贴篡改检测中算法时间复杂度过高和定位区域不完整的问题,提出一种基于深度特征提取和离散余弦变换的图像复制粘贴篡改检测算法。首先,融合图像颜色和纹理信息获得四通道图像,计算自适应特征提取阈值,并通过基于全卷积神经网络的特征检测器提取图像深度特征;其次,通过离散余弦变换提取块特征进行初步匹配,再利用点特征向量消除误匹配;最后,通过卷积运算精确定位篡改区域。通过在公共数据集上进行验证,充分展示了该算法在检测效率和定位区域完整性方面的优势。     

Multi-scale feature extraction and adaptive matching for copy-move forgery detection

A copy-move forgery detection scheme by using multi-scale feature extraction and adaptive matching is proposed in this paper. First, the host image is segmented into the non-overlapping patches of irregular shape in different scales. Then, Scale Invariant Feature Transform is applied to extract feature points from all patches, to generate the multi-scale features. An Adaptive Patch Matching algorithm is subsequently proposed for finding the matching that indicate the suspicious forged regions in each scale. Finally, the suspicious regions in all scales are merged to generate the detected forgery regions in the proposed Matched Keypoints Merging algorithm. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme performs much better than the existing state-of-the-art copy-move forgery detection algorithms, even under various challenging conditions, including the geometric transforms, such as scaling and rotation, and the common signal processing, such as JPEG compression and noise addition; in addition, the special cases such as the multiple copies and the down-sampling are also evaluated, the results indicate the very good performance of the proposed scheme.     

基于超像素形状特征的图像复制粘贴篡改检测算法

针对传统图像复制粘贴篡改检测方法中划分子块的数目过大导致算法时间复杂度过高且抵抗几何变换能力较弱的问题,提出一种基于超像素形状特征的图像复制粘贴篡改检测算法.首先提出基于小波对比度自适应划分超像素的方法分割图像并提取稳定的特征点;然后提出新颖的形状编码方式提取超像素形状特征,并与特征点融合,估计可疑伪造区域;最后对可疑...     

Robust hashing for image authentication using SIFT feature and quaternion Zernike moments

A novel robust image hashing scheme based on quaternion Zernike moments (QZMs) and the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) is proposed for image authentication. The proposed method can locate tampered region and detect the nature of the modification, including object insertion, removal, replacement, copy-move and cut-to-paste operations. QZMs considered as global features are used for image authentication while SIFT key-point features provide image forgery localization and classification. Proposed approach performance were evaluated on the color images database of UCID and compared with several recent and efficient methods. These experiments show that the proposed scheme provides a short hash length that is robust to most common image content-preserving manipulations like large angle rotations, and allows us to correctly locating forged image regions as well as detecting types of forgery image.

     

An efficiency enhanced cluster expanding block algorithm for copy-move forgery detection

Multimedia Tools and Applications - The proposed scheme detects the copy-move forgery detection regions through the invariant features extracted from each block. First, an image is divided into...     

基于Harris兴趣点和空域均值信息的图像复制粘贴窜改检测算法

提出了一种基于兴趣点检测和特征匹配的图像复制粘贴窜改检测方法。首先采用Harris算子检测图像中的角点作为兴趣点, 然后提取以兴趣点为中心的邻域内空域的五个均值特征形成特征向量, 最后记录相等位移矢量的发生频率并通过阈值化处理得到匹配的兴趣点, 从而标志复制粘贴区域。仿真实验表明, 该算法不仅可以有效检测多区域复制粘贴窜改操作, 而且能够有效抵抗多种窜改后处理操作, 包括加性高斯白噪声, JPEG压缩, 对比度、亮度和曝光度调整以及JPEG压缩和加噪的混合操作。     

大尺寸图片的复制粘贴检测*

针对目前图像复制粘贴检测算法有时间复杂度高、当图像中有光滑区域时错检率大的缺点,将图像角点区域及其八方向邻接圆形区域作为伪造检测区域,提取每个检测区域的矩特征后用k-d树进行排序,并通过比较每个区域矩特征的相似性来定位伪造复制区域.该算法效率高,且对经过旋转、添加噪声、模糊、JPEG压缩等后处理的复制粘贴伪造图像检测效果很好.