Image recoloring detection based on inter-channel correlation

Image recoloring is an emerging editing technique that can change the color style of an image by modifying pixel values.With the rapid proliferation of social networks and image editing techniques, recolored images have seriously hampered the authenticity of the communicated information.However, the...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nuo CHEN, Shuren QI, Yushu ZHANG, Mingfu XUE, Zhongyun HUA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: POSTS&TELECOM PRESS Co., LTD 2022-10-01
Series:网络与信息安全学报
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.infocomm-journal.com/cjnis/CN/10.11959/j.issn.2096-109x.2022057
_version_ 1827318528497156096
author Nuo CHEN, Shuren QI, Yushu ZHANG, Mingfu XUE, Zhongyun HUA
author_facet Nuo CHEN, Shuren QI, Yushu ZHANG, Mingfu XUE, Zhongyun HUA
author_sort Nuo CHEN, Shuren QI, Yushu ZHANG, Mingfu XUE, Zhongyun HUA
collection DOAJ
description Image recoloring is an emerging editing technique that can change the color style of an image by modifying pixel values.With the rapid proliferation of social networks and image editing techniques, recolored images have seriously hampered the authenticity of the communicated information.However, there are few works specifically designed for image recoloring.Existing recoloring detection methods still have much improvement space in conventional recoloring scenarios and are ineffective in dealing with hand-crafted recolored images.For this purpose, a recolored image detection method based on inter-channel correlation was proposed for conventional recoloring and hand-crafted recoloring scenarios.Based on the phenomenon that there were significant disparities between camera imaging and recolored image generation methods, the hypothesis that recoloring operations might destroy the inter-channel correlation of natural images was proposed.The numerical analysis demonstrated that the inter-channel correlation disparities can be used as an important discriminative metric to distinguish between recolored images and natural images.Based on such new prior knowledge, the proposed method obtained the inter-channel correlation feature set of the image.The feature set was extracted from the channel co-occurrence matrix of the first-order differential residuals of the differential image.In addition, three detection scenarios were assumed based on practical situations, including scenarios with matching and mismatching between training-testing data, and scenario with hand-crafted recoloring.Experimental results show that the proposed method can accurately identify recolored images and outperforms existing methods in all three hypothetical scenarios, achieving state-of-the-art detection accuracy.In addition, the proposed method is less dependent on the amount of training data and can achieve fairly accurate prediction results with limited training data.
first_indexed 2024-04-25T00:02:35Z
format Article
id doaj.art-4d4988ffe87d496199b2059ff1931041
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 2096-109X
language English
last_indexed 2024-04-25T00:02:35Z
publishDate 2022-10-01
publisher POSTS&TELECOM PRESS Co., LTD
record_format Article
series 网络与信息安全学报
spelling doaj.art-4d4988ffe87d496199b2059ff19310412024-03-14T07:00:11ZengPOSTS&TELECOM PRESS Co., LTD网络与信息安全学报2096-109X2022-10-018516717810.11959/j.issn.2096-109x.2022057Image recoloring detection based on inter-channel correlationNuo CHEN, Shuren QI, Yushu ZHANG, Mingfu XUE, Zhongyun HUA Image recoloring is an emerging editing technique that can change the color style of an image by modifying pixel values.With the rapid proliferation of social networks and image editing techniques, recolored images have seriously hampered the authenticity of the communicated information.However, there are few works specifically designed for image recoloring.Existing recoloring detection methods still have much improvement space in conventional recoloring scenarios and are ineffective in dealing with hand-crafted recolored images.For this purpose, a recolored image detection method based on inter-channel correlation was proposed for conventional recoloring and hand-crafted recoloring scenarios.Based on the phenomenon that there were significant disparities between camera imaging and recolored image generation methods, the hypothesis that recoloring operations might destroy the inter-channel correlation of natural images was proposed.The numerical analysis demonstrated that the inter-channel correlation disparities can be used as an important discriminative metric to distinguish between recolored images and natural images.Based on such new prior knowledge, the proposed method obtained the inter-channel correlation feature set of the image.The feature set was extracted from the channel co-occurrence matrix of the first-order differential residuals of the differential image.In addition, three detection scenarios were assumed based on practical situations, including scenarios with matching and mismatching between training-testing data, and scenario with hand-crafted recoloring.Experimental results show that the proposed method can accurately identify recolored images and outperforms existing methods in all three hypothetical scenarios, achieving state-of-the-art detection accuracy.In addition, the proposed method is less dependent on the amount of training data and can achieve fairly accurate prediction results with limited training data.https://www.infocomm-journal.com/cjnis/CN/10.11959/j.issn.2096-109x.2022057image recoloringforgery detectioninter-channel correlationimage forensics
spellingShingle Nuo CHEN, Shuren QI, Yushu ZHANG, Mingfu XUE, Zhongyun HUA
Image recoloring detection based on inter-channel correlation
网络与信息安全学报
image recoloring
forgery detection
inter-channel correlation
image forensics
title Image recoloring detection based on inter-channel correlation
title_full Image recoloring detection based on inter-channel correlation
title_fullStr Image recoloring detection based on inter-channel correlation
title_full_unstemmed Image recoloring detection based on inter-channel correlation
title_short Image recoloring detection based on inter-channel correlation
title_sort image recoloring detection based on inter channel correlation
topic image recoloring
forgery detection
inter-channel correlation
image forensics
url https://www.infocomm-journal.com/cjnis/CN/10.11959/j.issn.2096-109x.2022057
work_keys_str_mv AT nuochenshurenqiyushuzhangmingfuxuezhongyunhua imagerecoloringdetectionbasedoninterchannelcorrelation