JPEG error analysis and its applications to digital image forensics

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 480-491

  Luo, Weiqi ^a   Huang, Jiwu ^a   Qiu, Guoping ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital forensics; double JPEG compression; error analysis; JPEG history

Indexed keywords

BITMAP IMAGES; COMPOSITE IMAGES; DIGITAL FORENSIC; DIGITAL IMAGE FORENSICS; IMAGE FORENSICS; IMAGE FORMAT; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; JPEG COMPRESSION; JPEG HISTORY; JPEG IMAGE; QUALITY FACTORS; QUANTIZATION TABLES; SMALL SIZE; TRUNCATION ERRORS;

ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; IMAGE PROCESSING;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955676537     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2010.2051426     Document Type: Article

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