Copy move forgery detection using DWT and SIFT features

Powerful image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop etc. are very common these days. However due to such tools tampering of images has become very easy. Such tampering with digital images is known as image forgery. The most common type of digital image forgery is known as copy-move forgery wherein a part of image is cut/copied and pasted in another area of the same image. The aim behind this type of forgery may be to hide some particularly important details in the image. A method has been proposed to detect copy-move forgery in images. We have developed an algorithm of image-tamper detection based on the Discrete Wavelet Transform i.e. DWT. DWT is used for dimension reduction, which in turn increases the accuracy of results. First DWT is applied on a given image to decompose it into four parts LL, LH, HL, and HH. Since LL part contains most of the information, SIFT is applied on LL part only to extract the key features and find descriptor vector of these key features and then find similarities between various descriptor vectors to conclude that the given image is forged. This method allows us to detect whether image forgery has occurred or not and also localizes the forgery i.e. it tells us visually where the copy-move forgery has occurred.

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