Image Forgery Detection Using Googlenet and Random Forest Machine Learning Algorithm

In the present scenario, one of the threats of trust on images for digital and online applications as well as on social media. Individual’s reputation can be turnish using misinformation or manipulation in the digital images. Image forgery detection is an approach for detection and localization of forged components in the image which is manipulated. For effective image forgery detection, an adequate number of features are required which can be accomplished by a deep learning model, which does not require manual feature engineering or handcraft feature approaches. In this paper we have implemented GoogleNet deep learning model to extract the image features and employ Random Forest machine learning algorithm to detect whether the image is forged or not. The proposed approach is implemented on the publicly available benchmark dataset MICC-F220 with k-fold cross validation approach to split the dataset into training and testing dataset and also compared with the state-of-the-art approaches.