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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2023
Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Robert Allen Makin, III, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Steven Michael Durbin, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
Some aspects of the present invention may include systems and methods of a detecting whether a first image contains a region that has been manipulated, methods comprising obtaining a second image, wherein the second image comprises at least a part of the first image, said at least a part of the first image containing the region suspected of being manipulated; determining a numerical value of an order parameter (S or S) of the second image; determining a numerical value of an order parameter (S or S) of a third image, the third image comprising the second image with the region suspected of being manipulated removed; and comparing the numerical value of the second image (S or S) with the numerical value (S or S) of the third image to determine if the first image has been altered, by reference to a predefined criteria indicative of a manipulated image.