An image recapture detection algorithm based on learning dictionaries of edge profiles
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Author(s)
Thongkamwitoon, T
Muammar, H
Dragotti, P-L
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
With today's digital camera technology, high-quality images can be recaptured from an liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor screen with relative ease. An attacker may choose to recapture a forged image in order to conceal imperfections and to increase its authenticity. In this paper, we address the problem of detecting images recaptured from LCD monitors. We provide a comprehensive overview of the traces found in recaptured images, and we argue that aliasing and blurriness are the least scene dependent features. We then show how aliasing can be eliminated by setting the capture parameters to predetermined values. Driven by this finding, we propose a recapture detection algorithm based on learned edge blurriness. Two sets of dictionaries are trained using the K-singular value decomposition approach from the line spread profiles of selected edges from single captured and recaptured images. An support vector machine classifier is then built using dictionary approximation errors and the mean edge spread width from the training images. The algorithm, which requires no user intervention, was tested on a database that included more than 2500 high-quality recaptured images. Our results show that our method achieves a performance rate that exceeds 99% for recaptured images and 94% for single captured images.
Date Issued
2015-05-01
Date Acceptance
2015-01-03
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2015, 10 (5), pp.953-968
ISSN
1556-6013
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
953
End Page
968
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Volume
10
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7010054
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Computer Science
Engineering
Image forensics
recapture detection
image acquisition
aliasing
blurriness
dictionary learning
K-SVD
RESPONSE FUNCTION SIGNATURE
DIGITAL FORENSICS
Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2015-01-14