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A passive approach for the detection of splicing forgery in digital images

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With the technology progress, a plethora of freely accessible software has questioned the authenticity of digital images. This field is continuously creating challenges for researchers to ascertain the integrity of images. Hence, there is a need to improve the performance of forgery detection algorithms from time to time. This paper is focused on the detection of splicing forgery because it is one of the most frequently used image manipulation techniques. In the proposed scheme, Markov features in both Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) domains are extracted and combined for the detection of image splicing. Three-level DWT is applied to the source image by the means of discrete Haar wavelet. The image is split in to high and low-frequency sub-bands after applying one level DWT. Furthermore, low-frequency sub-band is decomposed twice to obtain three-level DWT, which leads to more information and less amount of noise. The efficacy of the proposed scheme has been appraised on six benchmark datasets i.e. CASIA v2.0, DVMM, IFS-TC, CASIA v1.0, Columbia, and DSO-1. Moreover, the SVM classifier is trained to classify the images as tampered or authentic. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is evaluated based on various performance parameters such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and informedness. The proposed results show improved accuracy i.e. 99.69%, 99.76%, 97.80%, 98.61%, 96.90%, and 92.50% on CASIA v1.0, CASIA v2.0, DVMM, Columbia, IFS-TC, and DSO-1, respectively, in comparison to other existing approaches.

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Kaur, N., Jindal, N. & Singh, K. A passive approach for the detection of splicing forgery in digital images. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 32037–32063 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09275-w

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