Image Inpainting Anti-Forensics Network via Attention-Guided Hierarchical Reconstruction

Privacy security and property rights protection have gradually attracted the attention of people. Users not only hope that the images edited by themselves will not be forensically investigated, but also hope that the images they share will not be tampered with. Aiming at the problem that inpainted images can be located by forensics, this paper proposes a general anti-forensics framework for image inpainting with copyright protection. Specifically, we employ a hierarchical attention model to symmetrically reconstruct the inpainting results based on existing deep inpainting methods. The hierarchical attention model consists of a structural attention stream and a texture attention stream in parallel, which can fuse hierarchical features to generate high-quality reconstruction results. In addition, the user’s identity information can be symmetrically embedded and extracted to protect copyright. The experimental results not only had high-quality structural texture information, but also had homologous features with the original region, which could mislead the detection of forensics analysis. At the same time, the protection of users’ privacy and property rights is also achieved.