Detection of Duplicated Regions in Tampered Digital Images by Bit-Plane Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Edoardo Ardizzone;Giuseppe Mazzola

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica (DINFO), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy 90128;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica (DINFO), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy 90128

  • Venue:
  • ICIAP '09 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we present a new method for searching duplicated areas in a digital image. The goal is to detect if an image has been tampered by a copy-move process. Our method works within a convenient domain. The image to be analyzed is decomposed in its bit-plane representation. Then, for each bit-plane, block of bits are encoded with an ASCII code, and a sequence of strings is analyzed rather than the original bit-plane. The sequence is lexicographically sorted and similar groups of bits are extracted as candidate areas, and passed to the following plane to be processed. Output of the last planes indicates if, and where, the image is altered.