Efficient detection and localization of single and multiple copy-move forgeries in digital images
摘要
Image forgery detection has become a critical challenge in digital forensics, copy-move forgery being one of the most widespread manipulation techniques. Copy-move fabrication is a widespread method of image manipulation in which a specific segment of an image is replicated and superimposed onto another region of the image. Traditional keypoint-based methods using SIFT and FLANN matching suffer from false correspondences and unbalanced clustering thresholds, restricting the precise localization of forgeries. We proposed a novel Adaptive Density-Spatial Clustering (ADSC) optimization integrated into a SIFT, FLANN, RANSAC framework. The proposed method dynamically adjusts clustering parameters using local displacement vector density, overcoming fixed-threshold limitations in conventional DBSCAN-based clustering. Experimental validation on the MICC-F220, MICC-F2000, and IEEE image forgery datasets demonstrates consistent improvements in pixel-level Intersection over Union (IoU), precision, and recall. The proposed framework provides improved robustness, accurate localization. The system proves highly robust against geometric transformations, including rotation and illumination variations, while maintaining computational efficiency for varying forged region sizes.