Journal of Computer Applications ›› 2026, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (6): 1893-1903.DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2025050655

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Image tampering localization and detection network under brightness-contrast disturbances

Xiaoqin YU1, Wuyang SHAN1(), Junying QIU2, Yu LIN3, Ronghao YANG4, Mao TIAN5   

  1. 1.College of Computer Science and Network Security (Model Software College),Chengdu University of Technology,Chengdu Sichuan 610059,China
    2.College of Fashion and Design Art,Sichuan Normal University,Chengdu Sichuan 610066,China
    3.Business School,Chengdu University of Technology,Chengdu Sichuan 610059,China
    4.College of Earth and Planetary Sciences,Chengdu University of Technology,Chengdu Sichuan 610059,China
    5.School of Computer Science and Technology,Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Chongqing 400065,China
  • Received:2025-06-12 Revised:2025-09-08 Accepted:2025-09-19 Online:2025-09-25 Published:2026-06-10
  • Contact: Wuyang SHAN
  • About author:YU Xiaoqin, born in 2003, M. S. candidate. Her research interests include image forensics, deep learning.
    QIU Junying, born in 1990, M. S., lecturer. Her research interests include intelligent processing, analysis and security of digital art media.
    LIN Yu, born in 1973, Ph. D., professor. His research interests include financial risk management, artificial intelligence, intelligent risk early warning.
    YANG Ronghao, born in 1978, Ph. D., professor. His research interests include computer vision, intelligent processing of remote sensing data.
    TIAN Mao, born in 1988, Ph. D., lecturer. His research interests include stereo matching, point cloud and image fusion, deep learning.
    First author contact:SHAN Wuyang, born in 1988, Ph. D., associate professor. His research interests include multimedia forensics, computer vision, data hiding.
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(42001417);Humanities and Social Sciences Planning Fund of Ministry of Education(2024XJAZH005)

亮度对比度扰动下的图像篡改定位检测网络

喻小芹1, 单武扬1(), 邱骏颖2, 林宇3, 杨容浩4, 田茂5   

  1. 1.成都理工大学 计算机与网络安全学院(示范性软件学院),成都 610059
    2.四川师范大学 服装与设计艺术学院,成都 610066
    3.成都理工大学 商学院,成都 610059
    4.成都理工大学 地球与行星科学学院,成都 610059
    5.重庆邮电大学 计算机科学与技术学院,重庆 400065
  • 通讯作者: 单武扬
  • 作者简介:喻小芹(2003—),女,四川仪陇人,硕士研究生,CCF会员,主要研究方向:图像取证、深度学习
    邱骏颖(1990—),女,四川成都人,讲师,硕士,主要研究方向:数字艺术媒体的智能处理、分析和安全
    林宇(1973—),男,四川仪陇人,教授,博士,主要研究方向:金融风险管理、人工智能、智能风险预警
    杨容浩(1978—),男,湖北天门人,教授,博士,主要研究方向:计算机视觉、遥感数据的智能处理
    田茂(1988—),男,四川德阳人,讲师,博士,CCF会员,主要研究方向:立体匹配、点云和影像融合、深度学习。
    第一联系人:单武扬(1988—),男,湖南岳阳人,副教授,博士,主要研究方向:多媒体取证、计算机视觉、数据隐藏
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金资助项目(42001417);教育部人文社会科学规划基金资助项目(2024XJAZH005)

Abstract:

Digital image tampering detection is critically important in the fields such as digital forensics and media content verification. However, in real-world applications, the tampered images are often post-processed in brightness and contrast, which will weaken tampering traces and degrade performance of the existing algorithms. To address this challenge, a restoration-assisted image tampering detection network ReConWave-Net was proposed. The network was consisted of two key modules: a classification-guided image restoration module was used to perform targeted restoration of images based on the categories of image disturbances, thereby reducing the impact of brightness and contrast disturbances; and a tampering localization module was used to strengthen the feature expression and localization ability of the tampered regions through multi-scale wavelet features and contrastive learning mechanism. The proposed network was evaluated on multiple datasets under various brightness and contrast disturbances. In terms of restoration quality, compared with the unrestored post-processed images, the proposed method increased the average Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) in tampered regions from 10.86 dB to 31.57 dB, and improved the average Structural SIMilarity index (SSIM) from 0.40 to 0.92; in terms of detection performance, under typical disturbances, the network had the F1 score of 0.730 and an Intersection over Union (IoU) of 0.653. It can be seen that combining targeted restoration with detection can enhance the robustness of tampering localization of post-processed images significantly.

Key words: image forensics, image restoration, tampering detection, contrastive learning, wavelet feature enhancement

摘要:

数字图像篡改检测在数字取证和媒体内容验证等领域具有重要意义。然而,实际应用中篡改图像经常经历亮度和对比度等后处理操作,这会削弱篡改痕迹并降低现有算法的检测性能。针对这一问题,提出一种恢复辅助的图像篡改定位检测网络ReConWave-Net。该网络包含2个关键模块:分类引导的图像恢复模块用于根据图像扰动类别针对性地恢复图像,以减弱亮度和对比度扰动的影响;篡改定位模块则通过多尺度小波特征和对比学习机制,增强篡改区域的特征表达和定位能力。在多个数据集上及若干亮度和对比度扰动下评估所提网络的结果表明,在篡改区域恢复质量方面,相较于未恢复的后处理图像,所提网络将平均峰值信噪比(PSNR)由10.86 dB提高至31.57 dB,将平均结构相似性指标(SSIM)由0.40提高至0.92;在检测性能方面,典型扰动下的F1分数为0.730,而交并比(IoU)为0.653。可见,将针对性恢复与检测相结合可显著提升对后处理图像的篡改定位鲁棒性。

关键词: 图像取证, 图像恢复, 篡改检测, 对比学习, 小波特征增强

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