Forensics Analysis of Resampling via ConvNeXt Block

Abstract

Images play an important role in transmitting visual information in our life. It could lead to severe consequences if images are manipulated or tampered maliciously. Digital forensics is an important research area to secure multimedia information. Many forensics technologies are applied to protect our community from the abuse of digital information. In many cases, after tampering, attackers could apply operations such as resampling, JPEG compression, blurring, etc. to cover the traces of tampering. Therefore, it is necessary to detect these manipulations in image forensics before exposing forgeries. In this paper, we propose to employ the prediction error filters, ConvNeXt blocks and convolution modules to classify images with different compression quality factors and resampling rates. By tracing the inconsistencies of resampling rates and compression quality factors, it could provide supplementary information for forensics researchers to expose possible forgeries. The proposed method could achieve great classification performance regardless of the interpolation algorithms. Also, it is highly robust against JPEG compression. In addition, the proposed method can be applied for estimating quality factors of JPEG compression.