Date of Award

9-21-2007

Document Type

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Department or Program

Department of Computer Science

First Advisor

Hany Farid

Abstract

We present new forensic tools that are capable of detecting traces of tampering in digital images without the use of watermarks or specialized hardware. These tools operate under the assumption that images contain natural properties from a variety of sources, including the world, the lens, and the sensor. These properties may be disturbed by digital tampering and by measuring them we can expose the forgery. In this context, we present the following forensic tools: (1) illuminant direction, (2) specularity, (3) lighting environment, and (4) chromatic aberration. The common theme of these tools is that they exploit lighting or optical properties of images. Although each tool is not applicable to every image, they add to a growing set of image forensic tools that together will complicate the process of making a convincing forgery.

Comments

Originally posted in the Dartmouth College Computer Science Technical Report Series, number TR2008-629.

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