Dual-Branch Convolutional Framework for Spatial and Frequency-Based Image Forgery Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05281v2
• Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:28:13 GMT
• Title: Dual-Branch Convolutional Framework for Spatial and Frequency-Based Image Forgery Detection
• Authors: Naman Tyagi, Riya Jain,
• Abstract summary: This report introduces a forgery detection framework that combines spatial and frequency-based features for detecting forgeries.<n>Features from both branches are fused and compared within a Siamese network, yielding 64 dimensional embeddings for classification.<n>When benchmarked on CASIA 2.0 dataset, our method achieves an accuracy of 77.9%, outperforming traditional statistical methods.
• Score: 0.017188280334580194
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: With a very rapid increase in deepfakes and digital image forgeries, ensuring the authenticity of images is becoming increasingly challenging. This report introduces a forgery detection framework that combines spatial and frequency-based features for detecting forgeries. We propose a dual branch convolution neural network that operates on features extracted from spatial and frequency domains. Features from both branches are fused and compared within a Siamese network, yielding 64 dimensional embeddings for classification. When benchmarked on CASIA 2.0 dataset, our method achieves an accuracy of 77.9%, outperforming traditional statistical methods. Despite its relatively weaker performance compared to larger, more complex forgery detection pipelines, our approach balances computational complexity and detection reliability, making it ready for practical deployment. It provides a strong methodology for forensic scrutiny of digital images. In a broader sense, it advances the state of the art in visual forensics, addressing an urgent requirement in media verification, law enforcement and digital content reliability.

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