Contrast enhancement-based forensics in digital images

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 515-525

  Cao, Gang ^a,b   Zhao, Yao ^a,c   Ni, Rongrong ^a   Li, Xuelong ^d  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence Production Technology and Systems   (China)

^c State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety   (China)

^d XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

composite image; Computer vision; contrast enhancement; digital forensics; image forgery

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE IMAGES; CONTRAST ADJUSTMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL FORENSIC; GLOBAL CONTRASTS; IMAGE FORGERY; JPEG COMPRESSION; REAL APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84896690794     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2014.2300937     Document Type: Article

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