CNN-based Approach for Robust Detection of Copy-Move Forgery in Images

With the rise of high-quality forged images on social media and other platforms, there is a need for algorithms that can recognize the originality. Detecting copy-move forgery is essential for ensuring the authenticity and integrity of digital images, preventing fraud and deception, and upholding the law. Copy-move forgery is the act of duplicating and pasting a portion of an image to another location within the same image. To address these issues, we propose two deep learning approaches - one using a custom architecture and the other using transfer learning. We test our method against a number of benchmark datasets and demonstrate that, in terms of accuracy and robustness against various types of image distortions, it outperforms current state-of-the-art methods. Our proposed method has applications in digital forensics, copyright defence, and image authenticity.