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Image forgery techniques: a review

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Image forensics is an investigation of digital images to identify manipulations that have been done on them. Nowadays, due to the availability of different low-cost devices for capturing images, digital images are gaining quite a bit of popularity. It occurs frequently that these images are manipulated by mistake or on purpose, resulting in inaccurate information being presented by the image. There is a need to develop techniques to identify forgeries present in digital images used by the media, in court trials, and for maintaining visual records, since digital images are commonly used as evidence through the media, in court, and for maintaining record keeping. A detailed review of various image forgery detection techniques is presented in this article including comparisons between the various methods, pros and cons, and results obtained during the experimentation.

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Kaur, G., Singh, N. & Kumar, M. Image forgery techniques: a review. Artif Intell Rev 56, 1577–1625 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10211-7

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