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A comprehensive survey of detecting tampered images and localization of the tampered region

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Digital image fraudulent has become a very dangerous problem because of the rapidly growing media editing software. The information on the digital image can be easily replaced by fake information. Several cybercrime activities are attempted by hacking the digital images. Due to the presence of various kinds of media editing software, the digital image authenticity is very much significant. Nowadays, the detection of the manipulated images and localization of the manipulated regions are important issues. Many efforts have been made over the past decade to detect the tampered images and localization of the tampered regions with high accuracy based on some specially designed mechanisms. This paper presents a detailed survey of existing approaches for detecting tampered images and localization of the tampered regions.

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  2. Department of Computer Science, St. Jerome’s College, Nagercoil (Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli), Tamil Nadu, India

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Anbu, T., Joe, M.M. & Murugeswari, G. A comprehensive survey of detecting tampered images and localization of the tampered region. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 2713–2751 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09585-z

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