An ensemble learning approach for resampling forgery detection using Markov process

Resampling is an extremely well-known technique performed for Image forgery detection. It includes the changes in the content of a picture in terms of rotation, stretching/zooming, and shrinking, to frame a forged picture that is a localized forgery in comparison to the original picture. With the wrong intention, resampling forgery has been increased day by day, and its negative impact has been increased in criminology, law enforcement, forensics, research etc. Accordingly, the interest in the algorithm of image resampling forgery detection is significantly developed in image forensics. In this paper, a novel image resampling forgery detection technique has been proposed. In the proposed technique, two types of Markov feature with spatial and Discrete Cosine Transform domains have been extracted to recognize the resampling operation. The spatial domain gives the information for the distribution of the pixels and DCT gives the edge information. Further, these Markov features are consolidated. Due to high dimensionality hard thresholding technique is used for reducing the dimensionality. Then, these Markov features are applied to the set of models of different classifiers. With the utilization of classifiers, weighted majority voting values have been calculated during the ensemble classification. Unlike the other techniques, these weighted voting boundaries have been consequently balanced during the training process until the best accuracy has been obtained. However, it is very difficult to get best accuracy so for getting best accuracy this research needs to do lots of iterations and trained the dataset. For the comparative study very few research has been found for this resampling forgery technique with different interpolation techniques and classifier. Still, comparison has been done with some latest research work. The comparative analysis shows that the proposed ensemble learning-based algorithm provides the best outcomes with the accuracy of 99.12% for bicubic, 98.89% for bilinear, and 98.23% for lanczos3 kernel with considerably less complexity and high speed in comparison to prior techniques which are using single support vector machine for classification. Moreover, the proposed algorithm also detects a very low probability of error of 0.44% and detects the type of interpolation kernel, size of the forgery, and the type of resampling, whether it is up sampling and down sampling, using Graphical User Interface which has not been detected previously with multiple forgery detection.& COPY; 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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This paper introduces a novel image resampling forgery detection technique that recognizes resampling operations by extracting Markov features in the spatial and Discrete Cosine Transform domains. The proposed algorithm achieves high classification accuracy through the use of multiple classifiers and weighted majority voting. It can also detect the type of interpolation kernel, forgery size, and resampling type, and includes a Graphical User Interface for forgery detection.