Exposing Digital Forgeries in Complex Lighting Environments

  • Authors:
  • M. K. Johnson;H. Farid

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comput. Sci., Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security - Part 1
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The availability of sophisticated digital imaging technology has given rise to digital forgeries that are increasing in sophistication and frequency. We describe a technique for exposing such fakes by detecting inconsistencies in lighting. We show how to approximate complex lighting environments with a low-dimensional model and, further, how to estimate the model's parameters from a single image. Inconsistencies in the lighting model are th.en used as evidence of tampering.