Image Manipulation Detection With Implicit Neural Representation and Limited Supervision

Zhenfei Zhang*, Mingyang Li, Xin Li, Ming-Ching Chang, Jun-Wei Hsieh ;

"Image Manipulation Detection (IMD) is becoming increasingly important as tampering technologies advance. However, most state-of-the-art (SoTA) methods require high-quality training datasets featuring image- and pixel-level annotations. The effectiveness of these methods suffers when applied to manipulated or noisy samples that differ from the training data. To address these challenges, we present a unified framework that combines unsupervised and weakly supervised approaches for IMD. Our approach introduces a novel pre-processing stage based on a controllable fitting function from Implicit Neural Representation (INR). Additionally, we introduce a new selective pixel-level contrastive learning approach, which concentrates exclusively on high-confidence regions, thereby mitigating uncertainty associated with the absence of pixel-level labels. In weakly supervised mode, we utilize ground-truth image-level labels to guide predictions from an adaptive pooling method, facilitating comprehensive exploration of manipulation regions for image-level detection. The unsupervised model is trained using a self-distillation training method with selected high-confidence pseudo-labels obtained from the deepest layers via different sources. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms existing unsupervised and weakly supervised methods. Moreover, it competes effectively against fully supervised methods on novel manipulation detection tasks."