Dual-Stream Image Sharing Chain Detection via Dynamic Information Compensation

Abstract

Image Sharing Chain Detection (ISCD) aims to reconstruct the complete trajectory of an image's dissemination across social platforms and is an important task in multimedia forensics. Current methods using DCT histograms are insufficient in uncovering platform compression traces and exhibit limitations in detecting weak trace platforms. In this letter, we propose an innovative dual-stream ISCD framework via dynamic information compensation. This framework integrates features from both the frequency domain and the residual domain to extract compression characteristics. Unlike existing methods, we employ binary stereo DCT in the frequency domain to focus on the spatiality of compression operations. Additionally, we design a dynamic information compensation mechanism to enhance platform traces by storing compensation fingerprints of the sharing chains. Furthermore, we develop a new dataset, F-4OSN-SC, encompassing 4 platforms to simulate more realistic social networking scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that our model outperforms existing methods across multiple datasets.