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Image forgery detection using steerable pyramid transform and local binary pattern

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In this paper, a novel image forgery detection method is proposed based on the steerable pyramid transform (SPT) and local binary pattern (LBP). First, given a color image, we transform it in the YCbCr color space and apply the SPT transform on chrominance channels Cb and Cr, yielding a number of multi-scale and multi-oriented subbands. Then, we describe the texture in each SPT subband using LBP histograms. The histograms from each subband are concatenated to produce a feature vector. Finally, a support vector machine uses the feature vector to classify images into forged or authentic. The proposed method has been evaluated on three publicly available image databases. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method and its superiority over some recent other methods.

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This work was supported by the National Plan for Science and Technology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under project number 10-INF1140-02.

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  1. College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Ghulam Muhammad & Munner H. Al-Hammadi

  2. Department of Software Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Hussain

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

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Muhammad, G., Al-Hammadi, M.H., Hussain, M. et al. Image forgery detection using steerable pyramid transform and local binary pattern. Machine Vision and Applications 25, 985–995 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-013-0547-4

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