An Optimal Hybrid Method to Detect Copy-move Forgery

Zare Mehrjardi, Fatemeh; Latif, Alimohammad; Sardari Zarchi, Mohsen

doi:10.22044/jadm.2023.13166.2453

Document Type : Research Note

Authors

¹ Computer Engineering Department, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.

² Computer Engineering Department, Meybod University, Meybod, Yazd, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22044/jadm.2023.13166.2453

Abstract

Image is a powerful communication tool that is widely used in various applications, such as forensic medicine and court, where the validity of the image is crucial. However, with the development and availability of image editing tools, image manipulation can be easily performed for a specific purpose. Copy-move forgery is one of the simplest and most common methods of image manipulation. There are two traditional methods to detect this type of forgery: block-based and key point-based. In this study, we present a hybrid approach of block-based and key point-based methods using meta-heuristic algorithms to find the optimal configuration. For this purpose, we first search for pair blocks suspected of forgery using the genetic algorithm with the maximum number of matched key points as the fitness function. Then, we find the accurate forgery blocks using simulating annealing algorithm and producing neighboring solutions around suspicious blocks. We evaluate the proposed method on CoMoFod and COVERAGE datasets, and obtain the results of accuracy, precision, recall and IoU with values of 96.87, 92.15, 95.34 and 93.45 respectively. The evaluation results show the satisfactory performance of the proposed method.

Keywords

20.1001.1.23225211.2023.11.3.8.7

Main Subjects

H.5. Image Processing and Computer Vision

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An Optimal Hybrid Method to Detect Copy-move Forgery

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Volume 11, Issue 3July 2023Pages 429-442

Volume 11, Issue 3
July 2023
Pages 429-442