Xiaojie Zhao¹, Xiankui Meng¹, Ruyong Ren², Shaozhang Niu^2,*, Zhenguang Gao³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1765-1781, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.029552 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Detecting double Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) compression for color images is vital in the field of image forensics. In previous researches, there have been various approaches to detecting double JPEG compression with different quantization matrices. However, the detection of double JPEG color images with the same quantization matrix is still a challenging task. An effective detection approach to extract features is proposed in this paper by combining traditional analysis with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). On the one hand, the number of nonzero pixels and the sum of pixel values of color space conversion error… More >

Anjani Kumar Rai^*, Subodh Srivastava

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.3, pp. 1489-1528, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020920 - 20 September 2022

Abstract Image forging is the alteration of a digital image to conceal some of the necessary or helpful information. It cannot be easy to distinguish the modified region from the original image in some circumstances. 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 More >

Xingyu Chen^*

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 103-113, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2022.039766 - 17 April 2023

Abstract With the popularization of high-performance electronic imaging equipment and the wide application of digital image editing software, the threshold of digital image editing becomes lower and lower. This makes it easy to trick the human visual system with professionally altered images. These tampered images have brought serious threats to many fields, including personal privacy, news communication, judicial evidence collection, information security and so on. Therefore, the security and reliability of digital information has been increasingly concerned by the international community. In this paper, digital image tamper detection methods are classified according to the clues that More >

Liang Xiu-jian^1,2,*, Sun He²

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 119-133, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2022.032915 - 04 July 2022

Abstract Increasingly advanced image processing technology has made digital image editing easier and easier. With image processing software at one’s fingertips, one can easily alter the content of an image, and the altered image is so realistic that it is illegible to the naked eye. These tampered images have posed a serious threat to personal privacy, social order, and national security. Therefore, detecting and locating tampered areas in images has important practical significance, and has become an important research topic in the field of multimedia information security. In recent years, deep learning technology has been widely… More >

Shangjun Luo¹, Junwei Luo¹, Wei Lu^1,*, Yanmei Fang¹, Jinhua Zeng², Shaopei Shi², Yue Zhang^3,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.1, pp. 647-657, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012869 - 30 October 2020

Abstract The estimation of image resampling factors is an important problem in image forensics. Among all the resampling factor estimation methods, spectrumbased methods are one of the most widely used methods and have attracted a lot of research interest. However, because of inherent ambiguity, spectrum-based methods fail to discriminate upscale and downscale operations without any prior information. In general, the application of resampling leaves detectable traces in both spatial domain and frequency domain of a resampled image. Firstly, the resampling process will introduce correlations between neighboring pixels. In this case, a set of periodic pixels that… More >

Bingtao Hu^*, Jinwei Wang

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.2, No.2, pp. 95-105, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2020.010464 - 11 November 2020

Abstract With the development of computer graphics, realistic computer graphics (CG) have become more and more common in our field of vision. This rendered image is invisible to the naked eye. How to effectively identify CG and natural images (NI) has been become a new issue in the field of digital forensics. In recent years, a series of deep learning network frameworks have shown great advantages in the field of images, which provides a good choice for us to solve this problem. This paper aims to track the latest developments and applications of deep learning in More >

Anjie Peng¹, Kang Deng¹, Shenghai Luo¹, Hui Zeng^{1, 2, *}

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 2217-2231, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011006 - 16 September 2020

Abstract The multi-purpose forensics is an important tool for forge image detection. In this paper, we propose a universal feature set for the multi-purpose forensics which is capable of simultaneously identifying several typical image manipulations, including spatial low-pass Gaussian blurring, median filtering, re-sampling, and JPEG compression. To eliminate the influences caused by diverse image contents on the effectiveness and robustness of the feature, a residual group which contains several highpass filtered residuals is introduced. The partial correlation coefficient is exploited from the residual group to purely measure neighborhood correlations in a linear way. Besides that, we… More >

Ming Lu^{1, 2, *}, Shaozhang Niu¹, Zhenguang Gao³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 887-907, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09770 - 10 June 2020

Abstract Content aware image resizing (CAIR) is an excellent technology used widely for image retarget. It can also be used to tamper with images and bring the trust crisis of image content to the public. Once an image is processed by CAIR, the correlation of local neighborhood pixels will be destructive. Although local binary patterns (LBP) can effectively describe the local texture, it however cannot describe the magnitude information of local neighborhood pixels and is also vulnerable to noise. Therefore, to deal with the detection of CAIR, a novel forensic method based on improved local ternary… More >

Zhangyi Shen¹, Feng Ding^{2, *}, Yunqing Shi¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.08291

Abstract As a common medium in our daily life, images are important for most people to gather information. There are also people who edit or even tamper images to deliberately deliver false information under different purposes. Thus, in digital forensics, it is necessary to understand the manipulating history of images. That requires to verify all possible manipulations applied to images. Among all the image editing manipulations, recoloring is widely used to adjust or repaint the colors in images. The color information is an important visual information that image can deliver. Thus, it is necessary to guarantee… More >