Image manipulation detection with Binary Similarity Measures

Since extremely powerful technologies are now available to generate and process digital images, there is a concomitant need for developing techniques to distinguish the original images from the altered ones, the genuine ones from the doctored ones. In this paper we focus on this problem and propose a method based on the neighbor bit planes of the image. The basic idea is that, the correlation between the bit planes as well the binary texture characteristics within the bit planes will differ between an original and a doctored image. This change in the intrinsic characteristics of the image can be monitored via the quantal-spatial moments of the bit planes. These so-called Binary Similarity Measures are used as features in classifier design. It has been shown that the linear classifiers based on BSM features can detect with satisfactory reliability most of the image doctoring executed via Photoshop tool.