Source Camera Identification and Detection in Digital Videos through Blind Forensics
This addresses source camera identification for digital forensics, offering an incremental improvement over existing techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of identifying the source camera of a digital video by proposing a blind forensic technique using machine learning for feature extraction and classification, achieving improved efficiency over traditional fingerprint-based methods.
Source camera identification in digital videos is the problem of associating an unknown digital video with its source device, within a closed set of possible devices. The existing techniques in source detection of digital videos try to find a fingerprint of the actual source in the video in form of PRNU (Photo Response Non--Uniformity), and match it against the SPN (Sensor Pattern Noise) of each possible device. The highest correlation indicates the correct source. We investigate the problem of identifying a video source through a feature based approach using machine learning. In this paper, we present a blind forensic technique of video source authentication and identification, based on feature extraction, feature selection and subsequent source classification. The main aim is to determine whether a claimed source for a video is actually its original source. If not, we identify its original source. Our experimental results prove the efficiency of the proposed method compared to traditional fingerprint based technique.