Title
Hybrid reference-based Video Source Identification.
Abstract
Millions of users share images and videos generated by mobile devices with different profiles on social media platforms. When publishing illegal content, they prefer to use anonymous profiles. Multimedia Forensics allows us to determine whether videos or images have been captured with the same device, and thus, possibly, by the same person. Currently, the most promising technology to achieve this task exploits unique traces left by the camera sensor into the visual content. However, image and video source identification are still treated separately from one another. This approach is limited and anachronistic, if we consider that most of the visual media are today acquired using smartphones that capture both images and videos. In this paper we overcome this limitation by exploring a new approach that synergistically exploits images and videos to study the device from which they both come. Indeed, we prove it is possible to identify the source of a digital video by exploiting a reference sensor pattern noise generated from still images taken by the same device. The proposed method provides performance comparable with or even better than the state-of-the-art, where a reference pattern is estimated from video frames. Finally, we show that this strategy is effective even in the case of in-camera digitally stabilized videos, where a non-stabilized reference is not available, thus solving the limitations of the current state-of-the-art. We also show how this approach allows us to link social media profiles containing images and videos captured by the same sensor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19030649
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
image forensics,video forensics,social media,sensor pattern noise,smartphone,video database
Computer vision,Digital video,Multimedia forensics,Social media,Image sensor,Electronic engineering,Exploit,Mobile device,Image forensics,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Visual media
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
3.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.64
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iuliani, M.1315.24
Marco Fontani219814.07
Dasara Shullani3274.14
Alessandro Piva42231157.21