Enhanced copy-paste image forgery detection based on archimedean spiral and coarse-to-fine approach

Duplicated region detection is one of the most common blind image forgery detection techniques to detect evidence of tampering and this is done by scrutinizing clues in a copy-paste image forgery. Two main issues for detecting copy-paste image forgery are robust feature extraction and computational...

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Main Author: Sekeh, Mohammad Akbarpour
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spelling my-utm-ep.439612017-06-22T01:09:49Z Enhanced copy-paste image forgery detection based on archimedean spiral and coarse-to-fine approach 2013-10 Sekeh, Mohammad Akbarpour QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Duplicated region detection is one of the most common blind image forgery detection techniques to detect evidence of tampering and this is done by scrutinizing clues in a copy-paste image forgery. Two main issues for detecting copy-paste image forgery are robust feature extraction and computational complexity. The major and specific challenges are to improve robustness especially against rotation for small size duplicated regions and improve time complexity of block similarity detection due to blindly matching in current methods. In this study, a copy-paste image forgery detection model is enhanced by including two proposed algorithms. The algorithms are Spiral Unique Sequence feature (SUS) based on Archimedean spiral to address the robustness issue and Coarse-To-Fine (CTF) block-matching algorithm based on sequential straightforward block clustering technique to resolve the time complexity issue. For evaluating the performance of SUS and CTF, MICC-F220 dataset from University of Florence and FC2010 dataset from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia were used. To measure the robustness of SUS, two sizes of blocks including ����� pixels and ��� pixels were analysed and the results were compared with Zernike moment’s robustness. For the first blocksize, the robustness improvement of SUS against noise and compression were 9.6% and 1.7% respectively but, was -2.9% against rotation. However, for the second blocksize, the robustness of SUS against noise, compression, and rotation were improved by 21.3%, 18.9%, 30.8% respectively. Next, the performance of CTF computational time was analysed in different cases of the number of clusters and compared with Lexicographical-sorting method. When the number of clusters exceeded a specific threshold, the computational time of CTF matching was significantly reduced. In conclusion, the experimental results and mathematical analysis demonstrated that SUS feature with coarse-to-fine block matching algorithm have made considerable improvements in terms of robustness and time complexity thus contributing to the area of duplicated region detection in forensic science. 2013-10 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/43961/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/43961/5/MuhammadAkbarpourSekehPFSKSM2013.pdf application/pdf en public phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
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Computer science
Sekeh, Mohammad Akbarpour
Enhanced copy-paste image forgery detection based on archimedean spiral and coarse-to-fine approach
description Duplicated region detection is one of the most common blind image forgery detection techniques to detect evidence of tampering and this is done by scrutinizing clues in a copy-paste image forgery. Two main issues for detecting copy-paste image forgery are robust feature extraction and computational complexity. The major and specific challenges are to improve robustness especially against rotation for small size duplicated regions and improve time complexity of block similarity detection due to blindly matching in current methods. In this study, a copy-paste image forgery detection model is enhanced by including two proposed algorithms. The algorithms are Spiral Unique Sequence feature (SUS) based on Archimedean spiral to address the robustness issue and Coarse-To-Fine (CTF) block-matching algorithm based on sequential straightforward block clustering technique to resolve the time complexity issue. For evaluating the performance of SUS and CTF, MICC-F220 dataset from University of Florence and FC2010 dataset from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia were used. To measure the robustness of SUS, two sizes of blocks including ����� pixels and ��� pixels were analysed and the results were compared with Zernike moment’s robustness. For the first blocksize, the robustness improvement of SUS against noise and compression were 9.6% and 1.7% respectively but, was -2.9% against rotation. However, for the second blocksize, the robustness of SUS against noise, compression, and rotation were improved by 21.3%, 18.9%, 30.8% respectively. Next, the performance of CTF computational time was analysed in different cases of the number of clusters and compared with Lexicographical-sorting method. When the number of clusters exceeded a specific threshold, the computational time of CTF matching was significantly reduced. In conclusion, the experimental results and mathematical analysis demonstrated that SUS feature with coarse-to-fine block matching algorithm have made considerable improvements in terms of robustness and time complexity thus contributing to the area of duplicated region detection in forensic science.
format Thesis
qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level Doctorate
author Sekeh, Mohammad Akbarpour
author_facet Sekeh, Mohammad Akbarpour
author_sort Sekeh, Mohammad Akbarpour
title Enhanced copy-paste image forgery detection based on archimedean spiral and coarse-to-fine approach
title_short Enhanced copy-paste image forgery detection based on archimedean spiral and coarse-to-fine approach
title_full Enhanced copy-paste image forgery detection based on archimedean spiral and coarse-to-fine approach
title_fullStr Enhanced copy-paste image forgery detection based on archimedean spiral and coarse-to-fine approach
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced copy-paste image forgery detection based on archimedean spiral and coarse-to-fine approach
title_sort enhanced copy-paste image forgery detection based on archimedean spiral and coarse-to-fine approach
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department Faculty of Computing
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/43961/5/MuhammadAkbarpourSekehPFSKSM2013.pdf
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