Camera-Model Identification Using Markovian Transition Probability Matrix

  • Authors:
  • Guanshuo Xu;Shang Gao;Yun Qing Shi;Ruimin Hu;Wei Su

  • Affiliations:
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA 07102;New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA 07102 and Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 430072;New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA 07102;Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 430072;US Army CERDEC, Fort Monmouth 07703

  • Venue:
  • IWDW '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Detecting the (brands and) models of digital cameras from given digital images has become a popular research topic in the field of digital forensics. As most of images are JPEG compressed before they are output from cameras, we propose to use an effective image statistical model to characterize the difference JPEG 2-D arrays of Y and Cb components from the JPEG images taken by various camera models. Specifically, the transition probability matrices derived from four different directional Markov processes applied to the image difference JPEG 2-D arrays are used to identify statistical difference caused by image formation pipelines inside different camera models. All elements of the transition probability matrices, after a thresholding technique, are directly used as features for classification purpose. Multi-class support vector machines (SVM) are used as the classification tool. The effectiveness of our proposed statistical model is demonstrated by large-scale experimental results.