Comparison between WLD and LBP descriptors for non-intrusive image forgery detection

Due to the availability of easy-to-use and powerful image editing tools, the authentication of digital images cannot be taken for granted and it gives rise to non-intrusive forgery detection problem because all imaging devices do not embed watermark. We investigated the detection of copy-move and splicing, the two harmful types of image forgery, using textural properties of images. Tampering distorts the texture micro-patterns in an image and texture descriptors can be employed to detect tampering. We did comparative study to examine the effect of two state-of-the-art best texture descriptors: Multiscale Local Binary Pattern (Multi-LBP) and Multiscale Weber Law Descriptor (Multi-WLD). Multiscale texture descriptors extracted from the chrominance components of an image are passed to Support Vector Machine (SVM) to identify it as authentic or forged. The performance comparison reveals that Multi-WLD performs better than Multi-LBP in detecting copy-move and splicing forgeries. Multi-WLD also outperforms state-of-the-art passive forgery detection techniques.