Image Copy-Move Forgery Detection Based on SIFT and Gray Level

Abstract

In order to reduce the false matching rate when detecting copy-move forgeries, an improved method based on SIFT and gray level was proposed in this study. Firstly, extract SIFT key points, and establish SIFT feature vector for every key point; Secondly, extract the gray level feature and combine it with SIFT feature to found a feature vector with size of 129D; Finally, match the above feature vector between every two different key points and then the copy-move regions would be detected. The experimental results showed that the improved algorithm reduced false matching rate even when an image was distorted by Gaussian blur.