Understanding Benford's law and its vulnerability in image forensics

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1568-1571

  Wang, Jingwei ^a   Cha, Byung Ho ^a   Cho, Seong Ho ^a   Kuo, C C Jay ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Benford's law; Generalized Benford's law; Histogram manipulation; Image authentication; Image forensics

Indexed keywords

BENFORD'S LAW; GENERALIZED BENFORD'S LAW; HISTOGRAM MANIPULATION; IMAGE AUTHENTICATION; IMAGE FORENSICS;

AUTHENTICATION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 70449592145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2009.5202811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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