In the field of image forensics,image tampering detection is a critical and challenging task.Traditional methods based on manually designed feature extraction typically focus on a specific type of tampering operation,...In the field of image forensics,image tampering detection is a critical and challenging task.Traditional methods based on manually designed feature extraction typically focus on a specific type of tampering operation,which limits their effectiveness in complex scenarios involving multiple forms of tampering.Although deep learningbasedmethods offer the advantage of automatic feature learning,current approaches still require further improvements in terms of detection accuracy and computational efficiency.To address these challenges,this study applies the UNet 3+model to image tampering detection and proposes a hybrid framework,referred to as DDT-Net(Deep Detail Tracking Network),which integrates deep learning with traditional detection techniques.In contrast to traditional additive methods,this approach innovatively applies amultiplicative fusion technique during downsampling,effectively combining the deep learning feature maps at each layer with those generated by the Bayar noise stream.This design enables noise residual features to guide the learning of semantic features more precisely and efficiently,thus facilitating comprehensive feature-level interaction.Furthermore,by leveraging the complementary strengths of deep networks in capturing large-scale semantic manipulations and traditional algorithms’proficiency in detecting fine-grained local traces,the method significantly enhances the accuracy and robustness of tampered region detection.Compared with other approaches,the proposed method achieves an F1 score improvement exceeding 30% on the DEFACTO and DIS25k datasets.In addition,it has been extensively validated on other datasets,including CASIA and DIS25k.Experimental results demonstrate that this method achieves outstanding performance across various types of image tampering detection tasks.展开更多
Biometric template protection is essential for finger-based authentication systems,as template tampering and adversarial attacks threaten the security.This paper proposes a DCT-based fragile watermarking scheme incorp...Biometric template protection is essential for finger-based authentication systems,as template tampering and adversarial attacks threaten the security.This paper proposes a DCT-based fragile watermarking scheme incorporating AI-based tamper detection to improve the integrity and robustness of finger authentication.The system was tested against NIST SD4 and Anguli fingerprint datasets,wherein 10,000 watermarked fingerprints were employed for training.The designed approach recorded a tamper detection rate of 98.3%,performing 3–6%better than current DCT,SVD,and DWT-based watermarking approaches.The false positive rate(≤1.2%)and false negative rate(≤1.5%)were much lower compared to previous research,which maintained high reliability for template change detection.The system showed real-time performance,averaging 12–18 ms processing time per template,and is thus suitable for real-world biometric authentication scenarios.Quality analysis of fingerprints indicated that NFIQ scores were enhanced from 2.07 to 1.81,reflecting improved minutiae clarity and ridge structure preservation.The approach also exhibited strong resistance to compression and noise distortions,with the improvements in PSNR being 2 dB(JPEG compression Q=80)and the SSIM values rising by 3%–5%under noise attacks.Comparative assessment demonstrated that training with NIST SD4 data greatly improved the ridge continuity and quality of fingerprints,resulting in better match scores(260–295)when tested against Bozorth3.Smaller batch sizes(batch=2)also resulted in improved ridge clarity,whereas larger batch sizes(batch=8)resulted in distortions.The DCNN-based tamper detection model supported real-time classification,which greatly minimized template exposure to adversarial attacks and synthetic fingerprint forgeries.Results demonstrate that fragile watermarking with AI indeed greatly enhances fingerprint security,providing privacy-preserving biometric authentication with high robustness,accuracy,and computational efficiency.展开更多
As image manipulation technology advances rapidly,the malicious use of image tampering has alarmingly escalated,posing a significant threat to social stability.In the realm of image tampering localization,accurately l...As image manipulation technology advances rapidly,the malicious use of image tampering has alarmingly escalated,posing a significant threat to social stability.In the realm of image tampering localization,accurately localizing limited samples,multiple types,and various sizes of regions remains a multitude of challenges.These issues impede the model’s universality and generalization capability and detrimentally affect its performance.To tackle these issues,we propose FL-MobileViT-an improved MobileViT model devised for image tampering localization.Our proposed model utilizes a dual-stream architecture that independently processes the RGB and noise domain,and captures richer traces of tampering through dual-stream integration.Meanwhile,the model incorporating the Focused Linear Attention mechanism within the lightweight network(MobileViT).This substitution significantly diminishes computational complexity and resolves homogeneity problems associated with traditional Transformer attention mechanisms,enhancing feature extraction diversity and improving the model’s localization performance.To comprehensively fuse the generated results from both feature extractors,we introduce the ASPP architecture for multi-scale feature fusion.This facilitates a more precise localization of tampered regions of various sizes.Furthermore,to bolster the model’s generalization ability,we adopt a contrastive learning method and devise a joint optimization training strategy that leverages fused features and captures the disparities in feature distribution in tampered images.This strategy enables the learning of contrastive loss at various stages of the feature extractor and employs it as an additional constraint condition in conjunction with cross-entropy loss.As a result,overfitting issues are effectively alleviated,and the differentiation between tampered and untampered regions is enhanced.Experimental evaluations on five benchmark datasets(IMD-20,CASIA,NIST-16,Columbia and Coverage)validate the effectiveness of our proposed model.The meticulously calibrated FL-MobileViT model consistently outperforms numerous existing general models regarding localization accuracy across diverse datasets,demonstrating superior adaptability.展开更多
Owing to the rapid increase in the interchange of text information through internet networks,the reliability and security of digital content are becoming a major research problem.Tampering detection,Content authentica...Owing to the rapid increase in the interchange of text information through internet networks,the reliability and security of digital content are becoming a major research problem.Tampering detection,Content authentication,and integrity verification of digital content interchanged through the Internet were utilized to solve a major concern in information and communication technologies.The authors’difficulties were tampering detection,authentication,and integrity verification of the digital contents.This study develops an Automated Data Mining based Digital Text Document Watermarking for Tampering Attack Detection(ADMDTW-TAD)via the Internet.The DM concept is exploited in the presented ADMDTW-TAD technique to identify the document’s appropriate characteristics to embed larger watermark information.The presented secure watermarking scheme intends to transmit digital text documents over the Internet securely.Once the watermark is embedded with no damage to the original document,it is then shared with the destination.The watermark extraction process is performed to get the original document securely.The experimental validation of the ADMDTW-TAD technique is carried out under varying levels of attack volumes,and the outcomes were inspected in terms of different measures.The simulation values indicated that the ADMDTW-TAD technique improved performance over other models.展开更多
In this paper,a new approach is proposed to determine whether the content of an image is authentic or modified with a focus on detecting complex image tampering.Detecting image tampering without any prior information ...In this paper,a new approach is proposed to determine whether the content of an image is authentic or modified with a focus on detecting complex image tampering.Detecting image tampering without any prior information of the original image is a challenging problem since unknown diverse manipulations may have different characteristics and so do various formats of images.Our principle is that image processing,no matter how complex,may affect image quality,so image quality metrics can be used to distinguish tampered images.In particular,based on the alteration of image quality in modified blocks,the proposed method can locate the tampered areas.Referring to four types of effective no-reference image quality metrics,we obtain 13 features to present an image.The experimental results show that the proposed method is very promising on detecting image tampering and locating the locally tampered areas especially in realistic scenarios.展开更多
This paper proposes a multi-scale self-recovery(MSSR)approach to protect images against content forgery.The main idea is to provide more resistance against image tampering while enabling the recovery process in a mult...This paper proposes a multi-scale self-recovery(MSSR)approach to protect images against content forgery.The main idea is to provide more resistance against image tampering while enabling the recovery process in a multi-scale quality manner.In the proposed approach,the reference data composed of several parts and each part is protected by a channel coding rate according to its importance.The first part,which is used to reconstruct a rough approximation of the original image,is highly protected in order to resist against higher tampering rates.Other parts are protected with lower rates according to their importance leading to lower tolerable tampering rate(TTR),but the higher quality of the recovered images.The proposed MSSR approach is an efficient solution for the main disadvantage of the current methods,which either recover a tampered image in low tampering rates or fails when tampering rate is above the TTR value.The simulation results on 10000 test images represent the efficiency of the multi-scale self-recovery feature of the proposed approach in comparison with the existing methods.展开更多
Based on the definition of tamper evidence, the authors define a new notion of tamper evidence forward secure signature scheme （TE-FSig）, and propose a general method to build a TE-FSig scheme. Based on this method,...Based on the definition of tamper evidence, the authors define a new notion of tamper evidence forward secure signature scheme （TE-FSig）, and propose a general method to build a TE-FSig scheme. Based on this method, they also give out a concrete instance. A TE-FSig scheme is constructed by the standard signature scheme, forward secures signature scheme and the aggregate signature scheme. It has an additional property of tamper evidence besides the property of forward secure, which can detect the time period when the key is exposed. In the standard model, the scheme constructed in the paper is proved to satisfy the prop- erties of forward secure, strong forward tamper-evidence secure, and strongly unforgeable under the chosen-message attack.展开更多
With the popularization of high-performance electronic imaging equipment and the wide application of digital image editing software,the threshold of digital image editing becomes lower and lower.Thismakes it easy to t...With the popularization of high-performance electronic imaging equipment and the wide application of digital image editing software,the threshold of digital image editing becomes lower and lower.Thismakes it easy to trick the human visual system with professionally altered images.These tampered images have brought serious threats to many fields,including personal privacy,news communication,judicial evidence collection,information security and so on.Therefore,the security and reliability of digital information has been increasingly concerned by the international community.In this paper,digital image tamper detection methods are classified according to the clues that they rely on,detection methods based on image content and detection methods based on double JPEG compression traces.This paper analyzes and discusses the important algorithms in several classification methods,and summarizes the problems existing in various methods.Finally,this paper predicts the future development trend of tamper detection.展开更多
In this paper,a hybrid intelligent text zero-watermarking approach has been proposed by integrating text zero-watermarking and hidden Markov model as natural language processing techniques for the content authenticati...In this paper,a hybrid intelligent text zero-watermarking approach has been proposed by integrating text zero-watermarking and hidden Markov model as natural language processing techniques for the content authentication and tampering detection of Arabic text contents.The proposed approach known as Second order of Alphanumeric Mechanism of Markov model and Zero-Watermarking Approach(SAMMZWA).Second level order of alphanumeric mechanism based on hidden Markov model is integrated with text zero-watermarking techniques to improve the overall performance and tampering detection accuracy of the proposed approach.The SAMMZWA approach embeds and detects the watermark logically without altering the original text document.The extracted features are used as a watermark information and integrated with digital zero-watermarking techniques.To detect eventual tampering,SAMMZWA has been implemented and validated with attacked Arabic text.Experiments were performed on four datasets of varying lengths under multiple random locations of insertion,reorder and deletion attacks.The experimental results show that our method is more sensitive for all kinds of tampering attacks with high level accuracy of tampering detection than compared methods.展开更多
The digital text media is the most common media transferred via the internet for various purposes and is very sensitive to transfer online with the possibility to be tampered illegally by the tampering attacks.Therefo...The digital text media is the most common media transferred via the internet for various purposes and is very sensitive to transfer online with the possibility to be tampered illegally by the tampering attacks.Therefore,improving the security and authenticity of the text when it is transferred via the internet has become one of the most difcult challenges that researchers face today.Arabic text is more sensitive than other languages due to Harakat’s existence in Arabic diacritics such as Kasra,and Damma in which making basic changes such as modifying diacritic arrangements can lead to change the text meaning.In this paper,an intelligent hybrid solution is proposed with highly sensitive detection for any tampering on Arabic text exchanged via the internet.Natural language processing,entropy,and watermarking techniques have been integrated into this method to improve the security and reliability of Arabic text without limitations in text nature or size,and type or volumes of tampering attack.The proposed scheme is implemented,simulated,and validated using four standard Arabic datasets of varying lengths under multiple random locations of insertion,reorder,and deletion attacks.The experimental and simulation results prove the accuracy of tampering detection of the proposed scheme against all kinds of tampering attacks.Comparison results show that the proposed approach outperforms all of the other baseline approaches in terms of tampering detection accuracy.展开更多
With the development of wireless communication technology,cyber physical systems are applied in various fields such as industrial production and infrastructure,where lots of information exchange brings cyber security ...With the development of wireless communication technology,cyber physical systems are applied in various fields such as industrial production and infrastructure,where lots of information exchange brings cyber security threats to the systems.From the perspective of system identification with binary-valued observations,we study the optimal attack problem when the system is subject to both denial of service attacks and data tampering attacks.The packet loss rate and the data tampering rate caused by the attack is given,and the estimation error is derived.Then the optimal attack strategy to maximize the identification error with the least energy is described as a min–max optimization problem with constraints.The explicit expression of the optimal attack strategy is obtained.Simulation examples are presented to verify the effectiveness of the main conclusions.展开更多
Two watermarks are embedded into the original image. One is the authentication watermark generated by secret key, which is embedded into the sub-LSB （Least Significant Bit） of the original image for tamper localizat...Two watermarks are embedded into the original image. One is the authentication watermark generated by secret key, which is embedded into the sub-LSB （Least Significant Bit） of the original image for tamper localization; the other is the recovery watermark for tamper recovering. The original image is divided into 8 x 8 blocks and each block is transformed by Discrete Cosine Transform （DCT）. For each block, some lower frequency DCT coefficients are chosen to be quantized and binary encoded so as to gain the recovery watermark of each block, and the recovery watermark is embedded into the LSB of another block by chaos encryption and authentication chain technology. After the two watermarks being detected, the location of any minute changes in image can be detected, and the tampered image data can be recovered effectively. In the paper, the number of coefficients and their bit lengths are carefully chosen in order to satisfy with the payload of each block and gain the capability of self-recovering. The proposed algorithm can well resist against possible forged attacks. Experimental results show that the watermark generated by the proposed algorithm is sensitive to tiny changes in images, and it has higher accuracy of tamper localization and good capability of the tamper recovery.展开更多
Blind forensics of JPEG image tampering as a kind of digital image blind forensics technology is gradually becoming a new research hotspot in the field of image security. Firstly, the main achievements of domestic and...Blind forensics of JPEG image tampering as a kind of digital image blind forensics technology is gradually becoming a new research hotspot in the field of image security. Firstly, the main achievements of domestic and foreign scholars in the blind forensic technology of JPEG image tampering were briefly described. Then, according to the different methods of tampering and detection, the current detection was divided into two types: double JPEG compression detection and block effect inconsistency detection. This paper summarized the existing methods of JPEG image blind forensics detection, and analyzed the two methods. Finally, the existing problems and future research trends were analyzed and prospected to provide further theoretical support for the research of JPEG image blind forensics technology.展开更多
The text of the Quran is principally dependent on the Arabic language.Therefore,improving the security and reliability of the Quran’s text when it is exchanged via internet networks has become one of the most difcult...The text of the Quran is principally dependent on the Arabic language.Therefore,improving the security and reliability of the Quran’s text when it is exchanged via internet networks has become one of the most difcult challenges that researchers face today.Consequently,the diacritical marks in the Holy Quran which represent Arabic vowels(i,j.s)known as the kashida(or“extended letters”)must be protected from changes.The cover text of the Quran and its watermarked text are different due to the low values of the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR),and Normalized Cross-Correlation(NCC);thus,the location for tamper detection accuracy is low.The gap addressed in this paper to improve the security of Arabic text in the Holy Quran by using vowels with kashida.To enhance the watermarking scheme of the text of the Quran based on hybrid techniques(XOR and queuing techniques)of the purposed scheme.The methodology propose scheme consists of four phases:The rst phase is pre-processing.This is followed by the second phase where an embedding process takes place to hide the data after the vowel letters wherein if the secret bit is“1”,it inserts the kashida but does not insert the kashida if the bit is“0”.The third phase is an extraction process and the last phase is to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme by using PSNR(for the imperceptibility),and NCC(for the security of the watermarking).Experiments were performed on three datasets of varying lengths under multiple random locations of insertion,reorder and deletion attacks.The experimental results were revealed the improvement of the NCC by 1.76%,PSNR by 9.6%compared to available current schemes.展开更多
Due to the rapid increase in the exchange of text information via internet networks,the security and the reliability of digital content have become a major research issue.The main challenges faced by researchers are a...Due to the rapid increase in the exchange of text information via internet networks,the security and the reliability of digital content have become a major research issue.The main challenges faced by researchers are authentication,integrity verication,and tampering detection of the digital contents.In this paper,text zero-watermarking and text feature-based approach is proposed to improve the tampering detection accuracy of English text contents.The proposed approach embeds and detects the watermark logically without altering the original English text document.Based on hidden Markov model(HMM),the fourth level order of the word mechanism is used to analyze the contents of the given English text to nd the interrelationship between the contexts.The extracted features are used as watermark information and integrated with digital zero-watermarking techniques.To detect eventual tampering,the proposed approach has been implemented and validated with attacked English text.Experiments were performed using four standard datasets of varying lengths under multiple random locations of insertion,reorder,and deletion attacks.The experimental and simulation results prove the tampering detection accuracy of our method against all kinds of tampering attacks.Comparison results show that our proposed approach outperforms all the other baseline approaches in terms of tampering detection accuracy.展开更多
Themost common digital media exchanged via the Internet is in text form.The Arabic language is considered one of themost sensitive languages of content modification due to the presence of diacritics that can cause a c...Themost common digital media exchanged via the Internet is in text form.The Arabic language is considered one of themost sensitive languages of content modification due to the presence of diacritics that can cause a change in the meaning.In this paper,an intelligent scheme is proposed for improving the reliability and security of the text exchanged via the Internet.The core mechanism of the proposed scheme depends on integrating the hidden Markov model and zero text watermarking techniques.The watermark key will be generated by utilizing the extracted features of the text analysis process using the third order and word level of the Markov model.The Embedding and detection processes of the proposed scheme will be performed logically without the effect of the original text.The proposed scheme is implemented using PHP with VS code IDE.The simulation results,using varying sizes of standard datasets,show that the proposed scheme can obtain high reliability and provide better accuracy of the common illegal tampering attacks.Comparison results with other baseline techniques show the added value of the proposed scheme.展开更多
Due to the rapid increase in the exchange of text information via internet networks,the security and authenticity of digital content have become a major research issue.The main challenges faced by researchers are how ...Due to the rapid increase in the exchange of text information via internet networks,the security and authenticity of digital content have become a major research issue.The main challenges faced by researchers are how to hide the information within the text to use it later for authentication and attacks tampering detection without effects on the meaning and size of the given digital text.In this paper,an efficient text-based watermarking method has been proposed for detecting the illegal tampering attacks on theArabic text transmitted online via an Internet network.Towards this purpose,the accuracy of tampering detection and watermark robustness has been improved of the proposed method as compared with the existing approaches.In the proposed method,both embedding and extracting of the watermark are logically implemented,which causes no change in the digital text.This is achieved by using the third level and alphanumeric strategy of the Markov model as a text analysis technique for analyzing the Arabic contents to obtain its features which are considered as the digital watermark.This digital watermark will be used later to detecting any tampering of illegal attack on the received Arabic text.An extensive set of experiments using four data sets of varying lengths proves the effectiveness of our approach in terms of detection accuracy,robustness,and effectiveness under multiple random locations of the common tampering attacks.展开更多
In this paper,we investigate the defense problem against the joint attacks of denial-of-service attacks and data tampering attacks in the framework of system identification with binary-valued observations.By estimatin...In this paper,we investigate the defense problem against the joint attacks of denial-of-service attacks and data tampering attacks in the framework of system identification with binary-valued observations.By estimating the key parameters of the joint attack and compensating them in the identification algorithm,a compensation-oriented defense scheme is proposed.Then the identification algorithm of system parameter is designed and is further proved to be consistent.The asymptotic normality of the algorithm is obtained,and on this basis,we propose the optimal defense scheme.Furthermore,the implementation of the optimal defense scheme is discussed.Finally,a simulation example is presented to verify the effectiveness of the main results.展开更多
Active tamper detection using watermarking technique can localize the tampered area and recover the lost information. In this paper, we propose an approach that the watermark is robust to legitimate lossy compression,...Active tamper detection using watermarking technique can localize the tampered area and recover the lost information. In this paper, we propose an approach that the watermark is robust to legitimate lossy compression, fragile to malicious tampering and capable of recovery. We embed the watermark bits in the direct current value of energy concentration transform domain coefficients. Let the original watermark bits be content dependent and apply error correction coding to them before embedded to the image. While indicating the tam- pered area, the extracted bits from a suspicious image can be further decoded and then used to roughly recover the corresponding area. We also theoretically study the image quality and bit error rate. ExperimentM results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.展开更多
Most secure database is the one you know the most. Tamper detection compares the past and present status of the system and produces digital evidence for forensic analysis. Our focus is on different methods or identifi...Most secure database is the one you know the most. Tamper detection compares the past and present status of the system and produces digital evidence for forensic analysis. Our focus is on different methods or identification of different locations in an oracle database for collecting the digital evidence for database tamper detection. Starting with the basics of oracle architecture, continuing with the basic steps of forensic analysis the paper elaborates the extraction of suspicious locations in oracle. As a forensic examiner, collecting digital evidence in a database is a key factor. Planned and a modelled way of examination will lead to a valid detection. Based on the literature survey conducted on different aspects of collecting digital evidence for database tamper detection, the paper proposes a block diagram which may guide a database forensic examiner to obtain the evidences.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61502274).
文摘In the field of image forensics,image tampering detection is a critical and challenging task.Traditional methods based on manually designed feature extraction typically focus on a specific type of tampering operation,which limits their effectiveness in complex scenarios involving multiple forms of tampering.Although deep learningbasedmethods offer the advantage of automatic feature learning,current approaches still require further improvements in terms of detection accuracy and computational efficiency.To address these challenges,this study applies the UNet 3+model to image tampering detection and proposes a hybrid framework,referred to as DDT-Net(Deep Detail Tracking Network),which integrates deep learning with traditional detection techniques.In contrast to traditional additive methods,this approach innovatively applies amultiplicative fusion technique during downsampling,effectively combining the deep learning feature maps at each layer with those generated by the Bayar noise stream.This design enables noise residual features to guide the learning of semantic features more precisely and efficiently,thus facilitating comprehensive feature-level interaction.Furthermore,by leveraging the complementary strengths of deep networks in capturing large-scale semantic manipulations and traditional algorithms’proficiency in detecting fine-grained local traces,the method significantly enhances the accuracy and robustness of tampered region detection.Compared with other approaches,the proposed method achieves an F1 score improvement exceeding 30% on the DEFACTO and DIS25k datasets.In addition,it has been extensively validated on other datasets,including CASIA and DIS25k.Experimental results demonstrate that this method achieves outstanding performance across various types of image tampering detection tasks.
文摘Biometric template protection is essential for finger-based authentication systems,as template tampering and adversarial attacks threaten the security.This paper proposes a DCT-based fragile watermarking scheme incorporating AI-based tamper detection to improve the integrity and robustness of finger authentication.The system was tested against NIST SD4 and Anguli fingerprint datasets,wherein 10,000 watermarked fingerprints were employed for training.The designed approach recorded a tamper detection rate of 98.3%,performing 3–6%better than current DCT,SVD,and DWT-based watermarking approaches.The false positive rate(≤1.2%)and false negative rate(≤1.5%)were much lower compared to previous research,which maintained high reliability for template change detection.The system showed real-time performance,averaging 12–18 ms processing time per template,and is thus suitable for real-world biometric authentication scenarios.Quality analysis of fingerprints indicated that NFIQ scores were enhanced from 2.07 to 1.81,reflecting improved minutiae clarity and ridge structure preservation.The approach also exhibited strong resistance to compression and noise distortions,with the improvements in PSNR being 2 dB(JPEG compression Q=80)and the SSIM values rising by 3%–5%under noise attacks.Comparative assessment demonstrated that training with NIST SD4 data greatly improved the ridge continuity and quality of fingerprints,resulting in better match scores(260–295)when tested against Bozorth3.Smaller batch sizes(batch=2)also resulted in improved ridge clarity,whereas larger batch sizes(batch=8)resulted in distortions.The DCNN-based tamper detection model supported real-time classification,which greatly minimized template exposure to adversarial attacks and synthetic fingerprint forgeries.Results demonstrate that fragile watermarking with AI indeed greatly enhances fingerprint security,providing privacy-preserving biometric authentication with high robustness,accuracy,and computational efficiency.
基金This study was funded by the Science and Technology Project in Xi’an(No.22GXFW0123)this work was supported by the Special Fund Construction Project of Key Disciplines in Ordinary Colleges and Universities in Shaanxi Province,the authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions.
文摘As image manipulation technology advances rapidly,the malicious use of image tampering has alarmingly escalated,posing a significant threat to social stability.In the realm of image tampering localization,accurately localizing limited samples,multiple types,and various sizes of regions remains a multitude of challenges.These issues impede the model’s universality and generalization capability and detrimentally affect its performance.To tackle these issues,we propose FL-MobileViT-an improved MobileViT model devised for image tampering localization.Our proposed model utilizes a dual-stream architecture that independently processes the RGB and noise domain,and captures richer traces of tampering through dual-stream integration.Meanwhile,the model incorporating the Focused Linear Attention mechanism within the lightweight network(MobileViT).This substitution significantly diminishes computational complexity and resolves homogeneity problems associated with traditional Transformer attention mechanisms,enhancing feature extraction diversity and improving the model’s localization performance.To comprehensively fuse the generated results from both feature extractors,we introduce the ASPP architecture for multi-scale feature fusion.This facilitates a more precise localization of tampered regions of various sizes.Furthermore,to bolster the model’s generalization ability,we adopt a contrastive learning method and devise a joint optimization training strategy that leverages fused features and captures the disparities in feature distribution in tampered images.This strategy enables the learning of contrastive loss at various stages of the feature extractor and employs it as an additional constraint condition in conjunction with cross-entropy loss.As a result,overfitting issues are effectively alleviated,and the differentiation between tampered and untampered regions is enhanced.Experimental evaluations on five benchmark datasets(IMD-20,CASIA,NIST-16,Columbia and Coverage)validate the effectiveness of our proposed model.The meticulously calibrated FL-MobileViT model consistently outperforms numerous existing general models regarding localization accuracy across diverse datasets,demonstrating superior adaptability.
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University through the Research Groups Program Grant No.(RGP-1443-0051).
文摘Owing to the rapid increase in the interchange of text information through internet networks,the reliability and security of digital content are becoming a major research problem.Tampering detection,Content authentication,and integrity verification of digital content interchanged through the Internet were utilized to solve a major concern in information and communication technologies.The authors’difficulties were tampering detection,authentication,and integrity verification of the digital contents.This study develops an Automated Data Mining based Digital Text Document Watermarking for Tampering Attack Detection(ADMDTW-TAD)via the Internet.The DM concept is exploited in the presented ADMDTW-TAD technique to identify the document’s appropriate characteristics to embed larger watermark information.The presented secure watermarking scheme intends to transmit digital text documents over the Internet securely.Once the watermark is embedded with no damage to the original document,it is then shared with the destination.The watermark extraction process is performed to get the original document securely.The experimental validation of the ADMDTW-TAD technique is carried out under varying levels of attack volumes,and the outcomes were inspected in terms of different measures.The simulation values indicated that the ADMDTW-TAD technique improved performance over other models.
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.60971095 and No.61172109)Artificial Intelligence Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province(Grant No.2012RZJ01)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.DUT13RC201)
文摘In this paper,a new approach is proposed to determine whether the content of an image is authentic or modified with a focus on detecting complex image tampering.Detecting image tampering without any prior information of the original image is a challenging problem since unknown diverse manipulations may have different characteristics and so do various formats of images.Our principle is that image processing,no matter how complex,may affect image quality,so image quality metrics can be used to distinguish tampered images.In particular,based on the alteration of image quality in modified blocks,the proposed method can locate the tampered areas.Referring to four types of effective no-reference image quality metrics,we obtain 13 features to present an image.The experimental results show that the proposed method is very promising on detecting image tampering and locating the locally tampered areas especially in realistic scenarios.
文摘This paper proposes a multi-scale self-recovery(MSSR)approach to protect images against content forgery.The main idea is to provide more resistance against image tampering while enabling the recovery process in a multi-scale quality manner.In the proposed approach,the reference data composed of several parts and each part is protected by a channel coding rate according to its importance.The first part,which is used to reconstruct a rough approximation of the original image,is highly protected in order to resist against higher tampering rates.Other parts are protected with lower rates according to their importance leading to lower tolerable tampering rate(TTR),but the higher quality of the recovered images.The proposed MSSR approach is an efficient solution for the main disadvantage of the current methods,which either recover a tampered image in low tampering rates or fails when tampering rate is above the TTR value.The simulation results on 10000 test images represent the efficiency of the multi-scale self-recovery feature of the proposed approach in comparison with the existing methods.
基金the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Y2007G37)
文摘Based on the definition of tamper evidence, the authors define a new notion of tamper evidence forward secure signature scheme （TE-FSig）, and propose a general method to build a TE-FSig scheme. Based on this method, they also give out a concrete instance. A TE-FSig scheme is constructed by the standard signature scheme, forward secures signature scheme and the aggregate signature scheme. It has an additional property of tamper evidence besides the property of forward secure, which can detect the time period when the key is exposed. In the standard model, the scheme constructed in the paper is proved to satisfy the prop- erties of forward secure, strong forward tamper-evidence secure, and strongly unforgeable under the chosen-message attack.
文摘With the popularization of high-performance electronic imaging equipment and the wide application of digital image editing software,the threshold of digital image editing becomes lower and lower.Thismakes it easy to trick the human visual system with professionally altered images.These tampered images have brought serious threats to many fields,including personal privacy,news communication,judicial evidence collection,information security and so on.Therefore,the security and reliability of digital information has been increasingly concerned by the international community.In this paper,digital image tamper detection methods are classified according to the clues that they rely on,detection methods based on image content and detection methods based on double JPEG compression traces.This paper analyzes and discusses the important algorithms in several classification methods,and summarizes the problems existing in various methods.Finally,this paper predicts the future development trend of tamper detection.
基金the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this work under grant number(R.G.P.2/55/40/2019),Received by Fahd N.Al-Wesabi.www.kku.edu.sa。
文摘In this paper,a hybrid intelligent text zero-watermarking approach has been proposed by integrating text zero-watermarking and hidden Markov model as natural language processing techniques for the content authentication and tampering detection of Arabic text contents.The proposed approach known as Second order of Alphanumeric Mechanism of Markov model and Zero-Watermarking Approach(SAMMZWA).Second level order of alphanumeric mechanism based on hidden Markov model is integrated with text zero-watermarking techniques to improve the overall performance and tampering detection accuracy of the proposed approach.The SAMMZWA approach embeds and detects the watermark logically without altering the original text document.The extracted features are used as a watermark information and integrated with digital zero-watermarking techniques.To detect eventual tampering,SAMMZWA has been implemented and validated with attacked Arabic text.Experiments were performed on four datasets of varying lengths under multiple random locations of insertion,reorder and deletion attacks.The experimental results show that our method is more sensitive for all kinds of tampering attacks with high level accuracy of tampering detection than compared methods.
基金The author extends his appreciation to the Deanship of Scientic Research at King Khalid University for funding this work under Grant Number(R.G.P.2/55/40/2019),Received by Fahd N.Al-Wesabi.www.kku.edu.sa。
文摘The digital text media is the most common media transferred via the internet for various purposes and is very sensitive to transfer online with the possibility to be tampered illegally by the tampering attacks.Therefore,improving the security and authenticity of the text when it is transferred via the internet has become one of the most difcult challenges that researchers face today.Arabic text is more sensitive than other languages due to Harakat’s existence in Arabic diacritics such as Kasra,and Damma in which making basic changes such as modifying diacritic arrangements can lead to change the text meaning.In this paper,an intelligent hybrid solution is proposed with highly sensitive detection for any tampering on Arabic text exchanged via the internet.Natural language processing,entropy,and watermarking techniques have been integrated into this method to improve the security and reliability of Arabic text without limitations in text nature or size,and type or volumes of tampering attack.The proposed scheme is implemented,simulated,and validated using four standard Arabic datasets of varying lengths under multiple random locations of insertion,reorder,and deletion attacks.The experimental and simulation results prove the accuracy of tampering detection of the proposed scheme against all kinds of tampering attacks.Comparison results show that the proposed approach outperforms all of the other baseline approaches in terms of tampering detection accuracy.
文摘With the development of wireless communication technology,cyber physical systems are applied in various fields such as industrial production and infrastructure,where lots of information exchange brings cyber security threats to the systems.From the perspective of system identification with binary-valued observations,we study the optimal attack problem when the system is subject to both denial of service attacks and data tampering attacks.The packet loss rate and the data tampering rate caused by the attack is given,and the estimation error is derived.Then the optimal attack strategy to maximize the identification error with the least energy is described as a min–max optimization problem with constraints.The explicit expression of the optimal attack strategy is obtained.Simulation examples are presented to verify the effectiveness of the main conclusions.
基金Supported by the Special Fund of Doctor Subject of Ministry of Education (No.20060497005)
文摘Two watermarks are embedded into the original image. One is the authentication watermark generated by secret key, which is embedded into the sub-LSB （Least Significant Bit） of the original image for tamper localization; the other is the recovery watermark for tamper recovering. The original image is divided into 8 x 8 blocks and each block is transformed by Discrete Cosine Transform （DCT）. For each block, some lower frequency DCT coefficients are chosen to be quantized and binary encoded so as to gain the recovery watermark of each block, and the recovery watermark is embedded into the LSB of another block by chaos encryption and authentication chain technology. After the two watermarks being detected, the location of any minute changes in image can be detected, and the tampered image data can be recovered effectively. In the paper, the number of coefficients and their bit lengths are carefully chosen in order to satisfy with the payload of each block and gain the capability of self-recovering. The proposed algorithm can well resist against possible forged attacks. Experimental results show that the watermark generated by the proposed algorithm is sensitive to tiny changes in images, and it has higher accuracy of tamper localization and good capability of the tamper recovery.
文摘Blind forensics of JPEG image tampering as a kind of digital image blind forensics technology is gradually becoming a new research hotspot in the field of image security. Firstly, the main achievements of domestic and foreign scholars in the blind forensic technology of JPEG image tampering were briefly described. Then, according to the different methods of tampering and detection, the current detection was divided into two types: double JPEG compression detection and block effect inconsistency detection. This paper summarized the existing methods of JPEG image blind forensics detection, and analyzed the two methods. Finally, the existing problems and future research trends were analyzed and prospected to provide further theoretical support for the research of JPEG image blind forensics technology.
基金funded by MOHE(FRGS:R.K130000.7856.5F026),Received by Nilam Nur Amir Sjarif.
文摘The text of the Quran is principally dependent on the Arabic language.Therefore,improving the security and reliability of the Quran’s text when it is exchanged via internet networks has become one of the most difcult challenges that researchers face today.Consequently,the diacritical marks in the Holy Quran which represent Arabic vowels(i,j.s)known as the kashida(or“extended letters”)must be protected from changes.The cover text of the Quran and its watermarked text are different due to the low values of the Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR),and Normalized Cross-Correlation(NCC);thus,the location for tamper detection accuracy is low.The gap addressed in this paper to improve the security of Arabic text in the Holy Quran by using vowels with kashida.To enhance the watermarking scheme of the text of the Quran based on hybrid techniques(XOR and queuing techniques)of the purposed scheme.The methodology propose scheme consists of four phases:The rst phase is pre-processing.This is followed by the second phase where an embedding process takes place to hide the data after the vowel letters wherein if the secret bit is“1”,it inserts the kashida but does not insert the kashida if the bit is“0”.The third phase is an extraction process and the last phase is to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme by using PSNR(for the imperceptibility),and NCC(for the security of the watermarking).Experiments were performed on three datasets of varying lengths under multiple random locations of insertion,reorder and deletion attacks.The experimental results were revealed the improvement of the NCC by 1.76%,PSNR by 9.6%compared to available current schemes.
基金The author extends his appreciation to the Deanship of Scientic Research at King Khalid University for funding this work under grant number(R.G.P.2/55/40/2019),Received by Fahd N.Al-Wesabi.www.kku.edu.sa.
文摘Due to the rapid increase in the exchange of text information via internet networks,the security and the reliability of digital content have become a major research issue.The main challenges faced by researchers are authentication,integrity verication,and tampering detection of the digital contents.In this paper,text zero-watermarking and text feature-based approach is proposed to improve the tampering detection accuracy of English text contents.The proposed approach embeds and detects the watermark logically without altering the original English text document.Based on hidden Markov model(HMM),the fourth level order of the word mechanism is used to analyze the contents of the given English text to nd the interrelationship between the contexts.The extracted features are used as watermark information and integrated with digital zero-watermarking techniques.To detect eventual tampering,the proposed approach has been implemented and validated with attacked English text.Experiments were performed using four standard datasets of varying lengths under multiple random locations of insertion,reorder,and deletion attacks.The experimental and simulation results prove the tampering detection accuracy of our method against all kinds of tampering attacks.Comparison results show that our proposed approach outperforms all the other baseline approaches in terms of tampering detection accuracy.
基金The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this work under Grant Number(GRP/14/42),Received by Fahd N.Al-Wesabi.www.kku.edu.sa.This research was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University through the Fast-track Research Funding Program.
文摘Themost common digital media exchanged via the Internet is in text form.The Arabic language is considered one of themost sensitive languages of content modification due to the presence of diacritics that can cause a change in the meaning.In this paper,an intelligent scheme is proposed for improving the reliability and security of the text exchanged via the Internet.The core mechanism of the proposed scheme depends on integrating the hidden Markov model and zero text watermarking techniques.The watermark key will be generated by utilizing the extracted features of the text analysis process using the third order and word level of the Markov model.The Embedding and detection processes of the proposed scheme will be performed logically without the effect of the original text.The proposed scheme is implemented using PHP with VS code IDE.The simulation results,using varying sizes of standard datasets,show that the proposed scheme can obtain high reliability and provide better accuracy of the common illegal tampering attacks.Comparison results with other baseline techniques show the added value of the proposed scheme.
基金The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this work under Grant Number(RGP.1/53/42),Received by Mohammed Alamgeer.www.kku.edu.sa。
文摘Due to the rapid increase in the exchange of text information via internet networks,the security and authenticity of digital content have become a major research issue.The main challenges faced by researchers are how to hide the information within the text to use it later for authentication and attacks tampering detection without effects on the meaning and size of the given digital text.In this paper,an efficient text-based watermarking method has been proposed for detecting the illegal tampering attacks on theArabic text transmitted online via an Internet network.Towards this purpose,the accuracy of tampering detection and watermark robustness has been improved of the proposed method as compared with the existing approaches.In the proposed method,both embedding and extracting of the watermark are logically implemented,which causes no change in the digital text.This is achieved by using the third level and alphanumeric strategy of the Markov model as a text analysis technique for analyzing the Arabic contents to obtain its features which are considered as the digital watermark.This digital watermark will be used later to detecting any tampering of illegal attack on the received Arabic text.An extensive set of experiments using four data sets of varying lengths proves the effectiveness of our approach in terms of detection accuracy,robustness,and effectiveness under multiple random locations of the common tampering attacks.
文摘In this paper,we investigate the defense problem against the joint attacks of denial-of-service attacks and data tampering attacks in the framework of system identification with binary-valued observations.By estimating the key parameters of the joint attack and compensating them in the identification algorithm,a compensation-oriented defense scheme is proposed.Then the identification algorithm of system parameter is designed and is further proved to be consistent.The asymptotic normality of the algorithm is obtained,and on this basis,we propose the optimal defense scheme.Furthermore,the implementation of the optimal defense scheme is discussed.Finally,a simulation example is presented to verify the effectiveness of the main results.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61071152 and 61271316)the National Basic Research Program (973) of China(Nos.2010CB731406 and 2013CB329605)the National "Twelfth Five-Year" Plan for Science&Technology Support(No.2012BAH38B04)
文摘Active tamper detection using watermarking technique can localize the tampered area and recover the lost information. In this paper, we propose an approach that the watermark is robust to legitimate lossy compression, fragile to malicious tampering and capable of recovery. We embed the watermark bits in the direct current value of energy concentration transform domain coefficients. Let the original watermark bits be content dependent and apply error correction coding to them before embedded to the image. While indicating the tam- pered area, the extracted bits from a suspicious image can be further decoded and then used to roughly recover the corresponding area. We also theoretically study the image quality and bit error rate. ExperimentM results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
文摘Most secure database is the one you know the most. Tamper detection compares the past and present status of the system and produces digital evidence for forensic analysis. Our focus is on different methods or identification of different locations in an oracle database for collecting the digital evidence for database tamper detection. Starting with the basics of oracle architecture, continuing with the basic steps of forensic analysis the paper elaborates the extraction of suspicious locations in oracle. As a forensic examiner, collecting digital evidence in a database is a key factor. Planned and a modelled way of examination will lead to a valid detection. Based on the literature survey conducted on different aspects of collecting digital evidence for database tamper detection, the paper proposes a block diagram which may guide a database forensic examiner to obtain the evidences.
