Effective image forgery detection of tampered foreground or background image based on image watermarking and alpha mattes

摘要

This paper proposes an effective image forgery detection scheme that identifies a tampered foreground or background image using image watermarking and alpha mattes. In the proposed method, component-hue-difference-based spectral matting is used to obtain the foreground and background images based on the obtained alpha matte. Next, image watermarking based on the discrete wavelet transform, discrete cosine transform, and singular value decomposition is used to embed two different watermarks into the foreground and background images, respectively. Finally, the difference between the obtained singular values is used to detect tampering of foreground or background image. Experimental results show that the proposed method performs well in terms of image forgery detection.