Given a digital asset, it is possible to trace the device that has produced the data. In particular, by focusing on visual data, source identification refers to the recovery of the type of used imaging devices between digital cameras, scanners, mobiles, computer graphic technologies, or the specific model or brand of such devices
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Multimedia Forensic Techniques for Acquisition Device Identification and Digital Image Authentication
Roberto Caldell (University of Florence, Italy), Irene Amerini (University of Florence, Italy), Francesco Picchioni (University of Florence, Italy), Alessia De Rosa (University of Florence, Italy), and Francesca Uccheddu (University of Florence, Italy)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-836-9.ch006
Abstract
Multimedia forensics can be defined as the science that tries, by only analysing a particular digital asset, to give an assessment on such a content and to extract information that can be useful to address and support an investigation linked to the scene represented in that specific digital document. The basic idea behind multimedia forensics relies on the observation that both the acquisition process and any post-processing operation leave a distinctive imprint on the data, as a sort of digital fingerprint. The analysis of such a fingerprint may permit to determine image/video origin and to establish digital content authenticity.