IDENTIFICATION OF INPAINTED IMAGES AND NATURAL IMAGES FOR DIGITAL FORENSICS

Image forensics is a form of image analysis for finding out the condition of an image in the complete absence of any digital watermark or signature.It can be used to authenticate digital images and identify their sources.While the technology of exemplar-based inpainting provides an approach to remove objects from an image and play visual tricks.In this paper, as a first attempt, a method based on zero-connectivity feature and fuzzy membership is proposed to discriminate natural images from inpainted images.Firstly, zero-connectivity labeling is applied on block pairs to yield matching degree feature of all blocks in the region of suspicious, then the fuzzy memberships are computed and the tampered regions are identified by a cut set.Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in detecting inpainted images.