Managing a large database of camera fingerprints

Miroslav Goljan; Jessica Fridrich; Tomáš Filler

doi:10.1117/12.838378

27 January 2010 Managing a large database of camera fingerprints

Miroslav Goljan, Jessica Fridrich, Tomáš Filler

Proceedings Volume 7541, Media Forensics and Security II; 754108 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.838378
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2010, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Sensor fingerprint is a unique noise-like pattern caused by slightly varying pixel dimensions and inhomogeneity of the silicon wafer from which the sensor is made. The fingerprint can be used to prove that an image came from a specific digital camera. The presence of a camera fingerprint in an image is usually established using a detector that evaluates cross-correlation between the fingerprint and image noise. The complexity of the detector is thus proportional to the number of pixels in the image. Although computing the detector statistic for a few megapixel image takes several seconds on a single-processor PC, the processing time becomes impractically large if a sizeable database of camera fingerprints needs to be searched through. In this paper, we present a fast searching algorithm that utilizes special "fingerprint digests" and sparse data structures to address several tasks that forensic analysts will find useful when deploying camera identification from fingerprints in practice. In particular, we develop fast algorithms for finding if a given fingerprint already resides in the database and for determining whether a given image was taken by a camera whose fingerprint is in the database.

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Miroslav Goljan, Jessica Fridrich, and Tomáš Filler "Managing a large database of camera fingerprints", Proc. SPIE 7541, Media Forensics and Security II, 754108 (27 January 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.838378

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