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🖼️ Image Forgery Detection

🔍 Overview

This project aims to detect forged images using a deep learning-based Discriminator model. It classifies images as authentic or forged by analyzing features extracted from the image. The model is trained on real and manipulated images and deployed using Flask for easy interaction.

🚀 Features

✅ Deep Learning Model – Uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to analyze image authenticity.
✅ Forgery Probability – Provides a probability score indicating the likelihood of an image being forged.
✅ Batch Processing – Supports analysis of multiple images in a directory.
✅ Flask API Integration – Easily interact with the model via a simple web interface.
✅ Confidence-Based Prediction – Classifies images as "Highly Likely Forged," "Likely Forged," "Likely Authentic," or "Highly Likely Authentic."

📁 Project Structure

├── model/
│   ├── discriminator.pth          # Pretrained model weights
│   ├── train.py                   # Model training script
├── app/
│   ├── app.py                      # Flask-based API
│   ├── static/
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├── datasets/
│   ├── real_images/                  # Folder containing real images
│   ├── forged_images/                # Folder containing forged images
├── requirements.txt                   # Required dependencies
├── README.md                          # Project documentation

🛠️ Installation

🔹 Prerequisites

Ensure you have Python 3.8+ installed, along with the necessary dependencies.

🔹 Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

🔹 Download Pretrained Model

Place the discriminator.pth file in the model/ directory.

🖼️ Usage

🔹 Single Image Detection

from utils.inference import detect_image_forgery

result = detect_image_forgery("model/discriminator.pth", "test_image.jpg")
print(result)

🔹 Batch Processing for a Directory

from utils.inference import analyze_directory

results, summary = analyze_directory("model/discriminator.pth", "test_images/")
print(summary)

🔹 Run Flask App for Web Interface

python app/app.py

Then open http://127.0.0.1:5000 in your browser to upload images and check for forgery.

🏗️ Model Training (Optional)

To train the model on a custom dataset:

python model/train.py --dataset /path/to/dataset --epochs 10

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you'd like to improve the model or add new features, feel free to submit a pull request.

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