Abstract
Copy-move forgery is a special type of forgery that involves duplicating one region of an image by covering it with a copy of another region from the same image. This study develops a simple and powerful descriptor called Electromagnetismlike mechanism descriptor (EMag), for locating tampered areas in copy-move forgery on the basis of Fourier transform within a reasonable amount of time. EMag is based on the collective attraction-repulsion mechanism, which considers each images pixel as an electrical charge. The main component of EMag is the degree of the attraction-repulsion force between the current pixel and its neighbours. In the proposed algorithm, the image is divided into similar non-overlapping blocks, and then the final force for each block is evaluated and used to construct the tampered image features vector. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm in terms of detection time and detection accuracy. The detection rate of the proposed algorithm is improved by reduction of false positive rate (FPR) and increment of true positive rate (TPR).