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Preprocessing reference sensor pattern noise via spectrum equalization

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posted on 2024-06-05, 03:27 authored by X Lin, Chang-Tsun LiChang-Tsun Li
Although sensor pattern noise (SPN) has been proved to be an effective means to uniquely identify digital cameras, some non-unique artifacts, shared among cameras undergo the same or similar in-camera processing procedures, often give rise to false identifications. Therefore, it is desirable and necessary to suppress these unwanted artifacts so as to improve the accuracy and reliability. In this paper, we propose a novel preprocessing approach for attenuating the influence of the non-unique artifacts on the reference SPN to reduce the false identification rate. Specifically, we equalize the magnitude spectrum of the reference SPN through detecting and suppressing the peaks according to the local characteristics, aiming at removing the interfering periodic artifacts. Combined with six SPN extractions or enhancement methods, our proposed spectrum equalization algorithm is evaluated on the Dresden image database as well as our own database, and compared with the state-of-the-art preprocessing schemes. The experimental results indicate that the proposed procedure outperforms, or at least performs comparable with, the existing methods in terms of the overall receiver operating characteristic curves and kappa statistic computed from a confusion matrix, and tends to be more resistant to JPEG compression for medium and small image blocks.

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Journal

IEEE transactions on information forensics and security

Volume

11

Pagination

126-140

Location

Piscataway, N.J.

ISSN

1556-6013

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2015, IEEE

Issue

1

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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