INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Detecting Forgery Face Images Based on Local Feature Descriptors (SIFT)

Marym Taha Alsaed

Technical College of Administration, Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Iraq

Prof. Dr. Ali Mohammad Sahan

Department of Information Technology, Technical -College of Administration, Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Iraq

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