Passive detection of copy-move forgery in digital images: State-of-the-art

Forensic Science International

Volumn 231, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 284-295

  Al Qershi, Osamah M ^a   Khoo, Bee Ee ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Copy move detection; Duplication forgery; Image forensics; Image forgery; Passive authentication

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; AUTHENTICATION; CAMERA; COPY MOVE FORGERY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORGERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATERMARKING;

EID: 84880306849     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.05.027     Document Type: Review

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