In this paper, we propose an image splicing detecting method using the characteristic function moments for the inter-scale co-occurrence matrix in the wavelet domain. We construct the co-occurrence matrices by using a pair of wavelet difference values across inter-scale wavelet subbands. In this process, we do not adopt the thresholding operation to prevent information loss. We extract the high-order characteristic function moments of the two-dimensional joint density function generated by the inter-scale co-concurrent matrices in order to detect image splicing forgery. Our method can be applied regardless of the color or gray image dataset using only luminance component of an image. By performing experimental simulations, we demonstrate that the proposed method achieves good performance in splicing detection. Our results show that the detection accuracy was greater than 95 % on average with well-known four splicing detection image datasets.
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