“…Commonly, the tampered images that come from the Internet involve economic, political, media, military, technology, medical, and judicial fields [Wei, Wang and Ma (2017)] and thus can give a very bad influence on the country and society. In this case, the image splicing detection techniques are of significant scientific importance, but they are traditionally concentrated on using the methods of pattern noise [Siwei, Xunyu and Xing (2014); Yao, Wang, Zhang et al (2017)], color filter array (CFA) [Ferrara, Bianchi, De Rosa et al (2012); Varlamova and Kuznetsov (2017)] and blocking [Bianchi and Piva (2012), Bianchi, De Rosa and Piva (2011)] to detect, which have some drawbacks because they need some prior information and can only handle a certain type of forgery. Moreover, the current image splicing detection technologies can only solve whether an image has undergone splicing, without the ability to locate the tampered region.…”