Fake Colorized Image Detection with Channel-wise Convolution based Deep-learning Framework

Colorization is one remarkable emerging image manipulating technique, which maybe potentially used for illegal purpose. In this paper, we introduce WISERNet (Wider Separate-then-reunion Network), a recently proposed deep-learning based data-driven color image steganalyzer in the field of fake colorized image detection. We believe that statistical inconsistencies introduced by different automatic colorization methods can be captured by advanced deep-learning based data-driven color-image steganalyzers such as WISERNet. Experimental evidences reported in this paper supports our claims: the detection performance of our proposed detector obviously outperforms FCID-HIST and FCID-FE, two state-of-the-art hand-crafted features specific to fake colorized image detection. Please note that in our approach we have never explicitly utilized information from the specific channels other than the ordinary red, green, and blue color channel, which is completely different from prior works in this field.