A survey of deep learning-based source image forensics

Abstract

Image source forensics is widely considered as one of the most effective ways to verify in a blind way digital image authenticity and integrity. In the last few years, many researchers have applied data-driven approaches to this task, inspired by the excellent performance obtained by those techniques on computer vision problems. In this survey, we present the most important data-driven algorithms that deal with the problem of image source forensics. To make order in this vast field, we have divided the area in five sub-topics: source camera identification, recaptured image forensic, computer graphics (CG) image forensic, GAN-generated image detection, and source social network identification. Moreover, we have included the works on anti-forensics and counter anti-forensics. For each of these tasks, we have highlighted advantages and limitations of the methods currently proposed in this promising and rich research field.