Detection of digital doctoring in exemplar-based inpainted images

Exemplar-based inpainting technique can be used to remove objects from an image and play visual tricks, which would affect the authenticity of images. In this paper, a blind detection method based on zero-connectivity feature and fuzzy membership is proposed to detect the specific doctoring. Firstly, zero-connectivity labeling is applied on block pairs to yield matching degree feature for all blocks in the region of suspicious, and fuzzy memberships are computed by constructing ascending semi-trapezoid membership function. Then the tampered regions are identified by a cut set. A num of natural and inpainted forged images are used to show the effectiveness of our method in detecting digital doctoring.