Rethinking Image Forgery Detection via Soft Contrastive Learning and Unsupervised Clustering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09307v2
• Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 06:34:31 GMT
• Title: Rethinking Image Forgery Detection via Soft Contrastive Learning and Unsupervised Clustering
• Authors: Haiwei Wu, Yiming Chen, Jiantao Zhou, Yuanman Li,
• Abstract summary: Image forgery detection aims to detect and locate forged regions in an image.<n>Most existing forgery detection algorithms formulate classification problems to classify pixels into forged or pristine.<n>We propose FOrensic ContrAstive cLustering (FOCAL) method, a novel, simple yet very effective paradigm based on soft contrastive learning and unsupervised clustering.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Image forgery detection aims to detect and locate forged regions in an image. Most existing forgery detection algorithms formulate classification problems to classify pixels into forged or pristine. However, the definition of forged and pristine pixels is only relative within one single image, e.g., a forged region in image A is actually a pristine one in its source image B (splicing forgery). Such a relative definition has been severely overlooked by existing methods, which unnecessarily mix forged (pristine) regions across different images into the same category. To resolve this dilemma, we propose the FOrensic ContrAstive cLustering (FOCAL) method, a novel, simple yet very effective paradigm based on soft contrastive learning and unsupervised clustering for the image forgery detection. Specifically, FOCAL 1) designs a soft contrastive learning (SCL) to supervise the high-level forensic feature extraction in an image-by-image manner, explicitly reflecting the above relative definition; 2) employs an on-the-fly unsupervised clustering algorithm (instead of a trained one) to cluster the learned features into forged/pristine categories, further suppressing the cross-image influence from training data; and 3) allows to further boost the detection performance via simple feature-level concatenation without the need of retraining. Extensive experimental results over six public testing datasets demonstrate that our proposed FOCAL significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art competitors by big margins: +24.8% on Coverage, +18.9% on Columbia, +17.3% on FF++, +15.3% on MISD, +15.0% on CASIA and +10.5% on NIST in terms of IoU (see also Fig. 1). The paradigm of FOCAL could bring fresh insights and serve as a novel benchmark for the image forgery detection task. The code is available at https://github.com/HighwayWu/FOCAL.

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