Study of Shadow and Reflection based Image Forgery Detection

The technical evolution the world is conquering, the trust on the digital imaging technology is grinding down. In daily life, peoples come across the tampered or forged images from the tabloid magazines to the business industry. Furthermore in media outlets, scientific journals, political campaigns, courtrooms, and photo hoaxes that land in our email boxes, forged images are appearing more frequently in a unique way unable to identify the fake image with the needed sophistication. The nominal advancement from the film photography to digital photography is feasible boon but it is not trustworthy. This paper mainly focuses on the image forgery detection based on reflection and shadow based images.