CVAIMay 4, 2025

Video Forgery Detection for Surveillance Cameras: A Review

arXiv:2505.03832v21 citationsh-index: 81
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It addresses the problem of ensuring video authenticity for security and legal applications, but it is incremental as it only reviews existing methods.

This paper reviews forensic techniques for detecting video forgery in surveillance footage, highlighting the need for more robust methods to counteract evolving tampering tools.

The widespread availability of video recording through smartphones and digital devices has made video-based evidence more accessible than ever. Surveillance footage plays a crucial role in security, law enforcement, and judicial processes. However, with the rise of advanced video editing tools, tampering with digital recordings has become increasingly easy, raising concerns about their authenticity. Ensuring the integrity of surveillance videos is essential, as manipulated footage can lead to misinformation and undermine judicial decisions. This paper provides a comprehensive review of existing forensic techniques used to detect video forgery, focusing on their effectiveness in verifying the authenticity of surveillance recordings. Various methods, including compression-based analysis, frame duplication detection, and machine learning-based approaches, are explored. The findings highlight the growing necessity for more robust forensic techniques to counteract evolving forgery methods. Strengthening video forensic capabilities will ensure that surveillance recordings remain credible and admissible as legal evidence.

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