Revealing the traces of JPEG compression anti-forensics

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 335-349

  Valenzise, Giuseppe ^a   Tagliasacchi, Marco ^b   Tubaro, Stefano ^b  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anti forensics; digital image forensics; JPEG compression

Indexed keywords

ANTI-FORENSICS; COMPRESSED IMAGES; DCT DOMAIN; DIGITAL IMAGE FORENSICS; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS; FORENSIC ANALYST; JPEG COMPRESSION; LARGE IMAGES; LOSSLESS; LOSSY NATURE; NOISE SIGNALS; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PROCESSING CHAIN; QUANTIZATION MATRIX; TRANSFORM CODING;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 84872328080     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2012.2234117     Document Type: Article

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