DiRLoc: Disentanglement Representation Learning for Robust Image Forgery Localization

Deep Learning image forgery localization methods have achieved remarkable results but cannot maintain comparable performance when the forgery images are JPEG compressed, a format that is widely used in daily information transmission. The robustness against JPEG compression has become a bottleneck to the practical application of image forgery localization. To address this issue, a robust image forgery localization framework is proposed against the performance degradation caused by JPEG compression. Specifically, a cutting-edge progressive disentanglement strategy is proposed that incorporates coarse-grained image disentanglement to mitigate the detrimental effects of general JPEG compression, while harnessing the ability of fine-grained element disentanglement to separate multi-scale artifacts, thereby minimizing interference from content information. Moreover, the decision strategy is carefully designed to reinforce subtle signals from tampered areas, including artifacts fusion block reasoning multi-scale artifacts and dual attention block that learn more about forgery-related features. Extensive visualizations and experiments demonstrate that our method can achieve competitive performance in general JPEG-resistant image forgery localization, especially in the performance of generalization experiments.