Image splicing detection based on noise level approach

Abstract

The rapid development in technology and the spread of editing image software has led to spread forgery in digital media. It is now not easy by just looking at an image to know whether the image is original or has been tampered. This article describes a new image splicing detection method based on noise level as a major feature to detect the tempered region. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is exploited to estimate the noise of image and the K-means clustering for authentic and forged region classification. The proposed method adopts Columbia Uncompressed Image Splicing Dataset for evaluation and effectiveness. The experimental results for 360 images demonstrate that the method achieved an 83.33% for detecting tampered region this percentage represent a promising result competed with Stat-of-art splicing detection methods.