The trustworthiness of photographs has an essential role in many areas, including: forensic investigation, criminal investigation, surveillance systems, intelligence services, medical imaging, and journalism. The art of making image fakery has a long history. But, in today’s digital age, it is possible to very easily change the information represented by an image without leaving any obvious traces of tampering. Despite this, no system yet exists which accomplishes effectively and accurately the image tampering detection task.

The digital information revolution and issues concerned with multimedia security have also generated several approaches to digital forensics and tampering detection. Generally, these approaches could be divided into active and passive–blind approaches. The area of active methods simply can be divided into the data hiding approach (e.g., watermarks) and the digital signature approach. We focus on blind methods, as they are regarded as a new direction and in contrast to active methods, they work in absence of any protecting techniques and without using any prior information about the image. To detect the traces of tampering, blind methods use the image function and the fact that forgeries can bring into the image specific detectable changes (e.g., statistical changes).

When digital watermarks or signatures are not available, the blind approach is the only way how to make the decision about the trustworthiness of the investigated image. Image forensics is a burgeoning research field and promise a significant improvement in forgery detection in the never–ending competition between image forgery creators and image forgery detectors.