Recognizing information about the origin of a digital image has been individuated as a crucial task to be tackled by the image forensic scientific community. Understanding something on the previous history of an image could be strategic to address any successive assessment to be made on it: knowing the kind of device used for acquisition or, better, the model of the camera could focus investigations in a specific direction. Sometimes just revealing that a determined post-processing, such as an interpolation or a filtering, has been performed on an image could be of fundamental importance to go back to its provenance. This paper locates in such a context and proposes an innovative method to inquire if an image derives from a social network and, in particular, try to distinguish from, which one has been downloaded. The technique is based on the assumption that each social network applies a peculiar and mostly unknown manipulation that, however, leaves some distinctive traces on the image; such traces can be extracted to feature every platform. By resorting at trained classifiers, the presented methodology is satisfactorily able to discern different social network origins. Experimental results carried out on diverse image datasets and in various operative conditions witness that such a distinction is possible. In addition, the proposed method is also able to go back to the original JPEG quality factor the image had before being uploaded on a social network. © 2005-2012 IEEE.
Image Origin Classification Based on Social Network Provenance / Caldelli, Roberto; Becarelli, Rudy; Amerini, Irene. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY. - ISSN 1556-6013. - 12:6(2017), pp. 1299-1308. [10.1109/TIFS.2017.2656842]
Image Origin Classification Based on Social Network Provenance
Amerini, Irene
2017
Abstract
Recognizing information about the origin of a digital image has been individuated as a crucial task to be tackled by the image forensic scientific community. Understanding something on the previous history of an image could be strategic to address any successive assessment to be made on it: knowing the kind of device used for acquisition or, better, the model of the camera could focus investigations in a specific direction. Sometimes just revealing that a determined post-processing, such as an interpolation or a filtering, has been performed on an image could be of fundamental importance to go back to its provenance. This paper locates in such a context and proposes an innovative method to inquire if an image derives from a social network and, in particular, try to distinguish from, which one has been downloaded. The technique is based on the assumption that each social network applies a peculiar and mostly unknown manipulation that, however, leaves some distinctive traces on the image; such traces can be extracted to feature every platform. By resorting at trained classifiers, the presented methodology is satisfactorily able to discern different social network origins. Experimental results carried out on diverse image datasets and in various operative conditions witness that such a distinction is possible. In addition, the proposed method is also able to go back to the original JPEG quality factor the image had before being uploaded on a social network. © 2005-2012 IEEE.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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