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Recasting Residual-based Local Descriptors as Convolutional Neural Networks: an Application to Image Forgery Detection
Local descriptors based on the image noise residual have proven extremely
effective for a number of forensic applications, like forgery detection and
localization. Nonetheless, motivated by promising results in computer vision,
the focus of the research community is now shifting on deep learning. In this
paper we show that a class of residual-based descriptors can be actually
regarded as a simple constrained convolutional neural network (CNN). Then, by
relaxing the constraints, and fine-tuning the net on a relatively small
training set, we obtain a significant performance improvement with respect to
the conventional detector
Analysis of adversarial attacks against CNN-based image forgery detectors
With the ubiquitous diffusion of social networks, images are becoming a
dominant and powerful communication channel. Not surprisingly, they are also
increasingly subject to manipulations aimed at distorting information and
spreading fake news. In recent years, the scientific community has devoted
major efforts to contrast this menace, and many image forgery detectors have
been proposed. Currently, due to the success of deep learning in many
multimedia processing tasks, there is high interest towards CNN-based
detectors, and early results are already very promising. Recent studies in
computer vision, however, have shown CNNs to be highly vulnerable to
adversarial attacks, small perturbations of the input data which drive the
network towards erroneous classification. In this paper we analyze the
vulnerability of CNN-based image forensics methods to adversarial attacks,
considering several detectors and several types of attack, and testing
performance on a wide range of common manipulations, both easily and hardly
detectable
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