A Novel Image Forensics Approach Based on Machine Learning with use Case in Sensor Image Data Validation

A Novel Image Forensics Approach Based on Machine Learning with use Case in Sensor Image Data Validation

연구 분야: Cryptography

학회: SN Computer Science

The introduction of anti-image forensic operations puts a limit on the detection accuracy of different existing forensic detectors. It demands a robust forensic technique that can either expose forgery even if the anti-image forensic operation is applied or can detect the images that have gone through the anti-image forensic operation. This paper presents a machine learning approach for differentiating uncompressed images from different kinds of anti-forensically altered images. We propose a 576-dimensional feature for training and classification, which depends on the variation of the First Significant Digit (FSD) distribution of rounded-discrete cosine transform coefficients (R-DCT) from one subband to the next in zig-zag scanning order. The multi-class classification is done using a neural network based classifier. The quantitative experiments and analysis confirm that the proposed method achieves a good classification accuracy of 99.65%. The dimensionality of the proposed feature is further reduced with a slight fall in the accuracy of detection. The proposed approach can also be useful in the quality assessment of medical images and the validation of sensor data.