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DF-Net: The Digital Forensics Network for Image Forgery Detection

28 Mar 202525th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference - Galway, Ireland 2023 8arXiv:2503.22398archive 2025-07-28

David Fischinger, Martin Boyer

The orchestrated manipulation of public opinion, particularly through manipulated images, often spread via online social networks (OSN), has become a serious threat to society. In this paper we introduce the Digital Forensics Net (DF-Net), a deep neural network for pixel-wise image forgery detection. The released model outperforms several state-of-the-art methods on four established benchmark datasets. Most notably, DF-Net's detection is robust against lossy image operations (e.g resizing, compression) as they are automatically performed by social networks.

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Image Forgery Detection

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net AUC 0.905 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net F-score 0.587 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.492 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net AUC 0.902 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.467 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net f-Score 0.564 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net AUC 0.902 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.490 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net f-Score 0.584 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net AUC 0.905 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.495 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection CASIA (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net f-Score 0.588 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Casia V1+ DF-Net AUC .906 #9 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia DF-Net AUC 0.880 #8 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net AUC 0.883 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.681 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net f-Score 0.760 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net AUC 0.881 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.681 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net f-Score 0.759 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net AUC 0.890 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.684 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net f-Score 0.766 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net AUC 0.883 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.685 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection Columbia (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net f-Score 0.762 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net AUC 0.770 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.245 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net f-Score 0.359 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net AUC 0.765 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.245 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net f-Score 0.358 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net AUC 0.759 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.245 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net f-Score 0.354 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net AUC 0.765 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.249 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net f-Score 0.361 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection DSO-1 DF-Net AUC 0.769 #9 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net AUC 0.795 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.229 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Facebook) DF-Net f-Score 0.304 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net AUC 0.799 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.238 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Wechat) DF-Net f-Score 0.314 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net AUC 0.791 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.230 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Weibo) DF-Net f-Score 0.303 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net AUC 0.803 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net Intersection over Union 0.247 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Image Manipulation Detection NIST (OSN-transmitted - Whatsapp) DF-Net f-Score 0.324 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report

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