Image Forensics Based on Lighting Estimation

Abstract

Computer generated images are assumed to be a key part in each person’s life in this era of information technology, where individuals effectively inhabit the advertisements, magazines, websites, televisions and many more. At the point when digital images played their role, the event of violations in terms of misrepresentation of information, use of their wrong doings winds up and also becomes easier with the help of image editing application programs. To be legitimate, if anyone does wrong anything then the proposed method can be used for a correct identification of the forgery and the imitations in the digital images. In existing techniques, researchers have suggested most well-known types of digital photographic manipulations based on source, meta-data, image copying, splicing and many more. The proposed approach is inspired by physics-based techniques and requires less human involvement. The presented approach works for images having any type of objects present in the scene, i.e. not only limited to human faces and selection of same intensity regions of the image. By assessing the lighting parameters, the proposed technique identifies the manipulated object and returns angle of incidence w.r.t light source direction. The demonstrated result produces forgery recognition rate of 92% on an image dataset comprising of various types of manipulated images.