ManTraNet: Manipulation Tracing Network For Detection And Localization of Image ForgeriesWith Anomalous Features

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This is the official repo for the ManTraNet (CVPR2019). For method details, please refer to

  @inproceedings{Wu2019ManTraNet,
      title={ManTra-Net: Manipulation Tracing Network For Detection And Localization of Image ForgeriesWith Anomalous Features},
      author={Yue Wu, Wael AbdAlmageed, and Premkumar Natarajan},
      journal={The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
      year={2019}
  }

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Overview

ManTraNet is an end-to-end image forgery detection and localization solution, which means it takes a testing image as input, and predicts pixel-level forgery likelihood map as output. Comparing to existing methods, the proposed ManTraNet has the following advantages:

1. Simplicity: ManTraNet needs no extra pre- and/or post-processing
2. Fast: ManTraNet puts all computations in a single network, and accepts an image of arbitrary size.
3. Robustness: ManTraNet does not rely on working assumptions other than the local manipulation assumption, i.e. some region in a testing image is modified differently from the rest.

Technically speaking, ManTraNet is composed of two sub-networks as shown below:

1. Image Manipulation Trace Feature Extractor: the feature extraction network for the image manipulation classification task, which is sensitive to different manipulation types, and encodes the image manipulation in a patch into a fixed dimension feature vector.
2. Local Anomaly Detection Network: the anomaly detection network to compare a local feature against the dominant feature averaged from a local region, whose activation depends on how far a local feature deviates from the reference feature instead of the absolute value of a local feature.

Extension

ManTraNet is pretrained with all synthetic data. To prevent overfitting, we

1. Pretrain the Image Manipulation Classification (385 classes) task to obtain the Image Manipulation Trace Feature Extractor
2. Train ManTraNet with four types of synthetic data, i.e. copy-move, splicing, removal, and enhancement

To extend the provided ManTraNet, one may introduce the new manipulation either to the IMC pretrain task, or to the end-to-end ManTraNet task, or both. It is also worth noting that the IMC task can be a self-supervised task.

Dependency

ManTraNet is written in Keras with the TensorFlow backend.

• Keras: 2.2.0
• TensorFlow: 1.8.0

Other versions might also work, but are not tested.

Demo

One may simply download the repo and play with the provided ipython notebook.

Alternatively, one may play with the inference code using this google colab link.

Contact

For any paper related questions, please contact rex.yue.wu(AT)gmail.com

Licence

The Software is made available for academic or non-commercial purposes only. The license is for a copy of the program for an unlimited term. Individuals requesting a license for commercial use must pay for a commercial license.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

First I want to thank you all for using this repo. I've received several emails every month regarding to different issues. Two important questions are listed below:

1. Can you release the training code, training dataset, and/or testing code?

No, I can't. For training code or commerial usage, you should contact the USC ISI. For training dataset, I think it should be straightforward to create your own version. For testing code, the inference part has already been included in the repo; the evaluation part has not been included yet, but I can work on it in future.

2. Why the released pretrained model is of a different architecture from the one described in the paper?

I highly appreciated zhang.y****'s email which pointed out that the released pretrained model's first block has 32 filters instead of 16 (i.e. the IMC-VGG-W&D setting described in paper Table 5). I confirmed this is a mistake, possibly because I failed to name models with different architectures differently or simply picked a wrong model. However, I have already left the USC ISI for years, and thus don't have the resources to correct this mistake. I deeply apologize for any inconvience, but I hope you guys could understand. This mistake might also explain why some of you (who tried to reproduce the evaluation results) observed slightly different performance scores than those reported in paper, but it will not affect any main contributions/conclusions made in the paper.