Anti-forensics and countermeasures of electrical network frequency analysis

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2073-2088

  Chuang, Wei Hong ^a,b   Garg, Ravi ^a   Wu, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AMAZON   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital recording authentication; Electrical network frequency; Game theory; Information forensics; Time stamp

Indexed keywords

ADVERSARIAL ENVIRONMENTS; DETECTION METHODS; DIGITAL RECORDING; ELECTRICAL NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE; FORENSIC ANALYST; INFORMATION FORENSICS; TIME STAMPS;

GAME THEORY; VIDEO RECORDING;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888338964     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2013.2285515     Document Type: Article

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