SegWave: Wavelet-Driven Segmentation of Tampered Regions

arXiv:2608.30714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Verifying image authenticity is increasingly difficult, posing serious risks across journalism, law enforcement, and political domains. Most existing forensic methods rely on high-level visual artifacts and treat frame detection as a simple binary task. To address this, we propose SegWave, a hybrid framework that jointly leverages spatial and frequency-domain cues for image tampering detection. SegWave integrates a transformer-based architecture with the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to capture localized, multi-scale frequency inconsistencies indicative of manipulation. To further improve localization effectiveness, we introduce an Adaptive Sub-band Attention module (ASA) that dynamically highlights the informative high-frequency wavelet components. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that SegWave consistently outperforms state-of-the-art tampering detection methods in challenging evaluation settings.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-09-01