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An overview on video forensics

Simone Milani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, milani@elet.polimi.it , Marco Fontani, University of Siena, Italy AND National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy, Paolo Bestagini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Mauro Barni, University of Siena, Italy AND National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy, Alessandro Piva, University of Florence, Italy AND National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy, Marco Tagliasacchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 
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Simone Milani, Marco Fontani, Paolo Bestagini, Mauro Barni, Alessandro Piva, Marco Tagliasacchi and Stefano Tubaro (2012), "An overview on video forensics", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 1: No. 1, e2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ATSIP.2012.2

Publication Date: 28 Aug 2012
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Video forensicsImage forensicsForgery detectionDouble compressionProcessing history estimation
 

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In this article:
I. INTRODUCTION 
II. A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN IMAGE FORENSICS 
III. FORENSIC TOOLS FOR VIDEO ACQUISITION ANALYSIS 
IV. FORENSIC TOOLS FOR VIDEO COMPRESSION 
V. FORENSIC TOOLS FOR VIDEO DOCTORING DETECTION 
VI. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORKS 

Abstract

The broad availability of tools for the acquisition and processing of multimedia signals has recently led to the concern that images and videos cannot be considered a trustworthy evidence, since they can be altered rather easily. This possibility raises the need to verify whether a multimedia content, which can be downloaded from the internet, acquired by a video surveillance system, or received by a digital TV broadcaster, is original or not. To cope with these issues, signal processing experts have been investigating effective video forensic strategies aimed at reconstructing the processing history of the video data under investigation and validating their origins. The key assumption of these techniques is that most alterations are not reversible and leave in the reconstructed signal some “footprints”, which can be analyzed in order to identify the previous processing steps. This paper presents an overview of the video forensic techniques that have been proposed in the literature, focusing on the acquisition, compression, and editing operations, trying to highlight strengths and weaknesses of each solution. It also provides a review of simple processing chains that combine different operations. Anti-forensic techniques are also considered to outline the current limitations and highlight the open research issues.

DOI:10.1017/ATSIP.2012.2