Image Forgeries Detection through Mosaic Analysis: the Intermediate Values Algorithm

Quentin BAMMEY, Rafael Grompone VON GIOI, Jean-Michel MOREL

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Abstract

Cameras sample each image pixel in one color channel only. The remaining channels are interpolated from neighboring pixels during demosaicing. This operation leaves traces, that can be exploited to authentify images and detect forgeries. This paper describes the method introduced by Choi et al. that exploits the fact that interpolated pixels are more prone to be intermediate values, to detect in which pattern an image has been sampled. We then use this information to find regions that are inconsistent with the global image. We attribute a confidence score to each detection, which can then be thresholded to provide a binary map of detected forgeries.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)317-343
Number of pages27
JournalImage Processing On Line
Volume11
Early online date15 Oct 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IPOL & the authors.

Funding

Work partly funded by the French Ministère des Armées – Direction Générale de l’Armement, and by grant ANR-16-DEFA-0004 Signature d’Images – ANR/DGA DEFALS challenge.

Keywords

  • CFA
  • Demosaicing
  • Forgery detection
  • Image forensics

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