Open AccessSiamese convolutional neural network‐based approach towards universal image forensics
Author(s) -
Mazumdar Aniruddha,
Bora Prabin Kumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iet image processing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.401
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1751-9667
pISSN - 1751-9659
DOI - 10.1049/iet-ipr.2019.1114
Subject(s) - computer science , image editing , artificial intelligence , convolutional neural network , image (mathematics) , pattern recognition (psychology) , deep learning , artificial neural network , computer vision , contextual image classification
This study proposes a novel deep learning‐based method which can detect different types of image editing operations carried out on images. Unlike most of the existing methods, which can only detect the editing operations considered in the training stage, the proposed method can generalise to manipulations not seen in the training stage. The method is based on the classification of image pairs as either similarly or differently processed using a deep siamese neural network. Once the network learns features that can discriminate different editing operations, it can check whether an image is processed with an editing operation, not present in the training stage, using the one‐shot classification strategy. An image forgery detection and localisation technique is also proposed using the trained siamese network. The experimental results show the efficacy of the proposed method in detecting different editing operations and also show the ability in detecting and localising image forgeries.