Title
Robust median filtering detection based on the difference of frequency residuals
Abstract
Recently, the detection of median filtering (MF), which is a popular nonlinear denoising manipulation, has attracted extensive attention from researchers. Several detectors with satisfying performance have been developed, while most of them need to train proper classifiers and their performance may be degraded under JPEG compression. In this paper, a training-free MF detector with single-dimensional feature is proposed based on the difference of frequency residuals, which can solve the detection issue of median filtering images under JPEG post-processing. It is designed relying on the fact that when an image is median filtered over and over again, the frequency residual obtained from continuous two images monotonically decreases. The difference between the frequency residuals obtained from the first MF and the second MF is pretty large in an unfiltered test image, while it is relatively small if the test image is a median filtered one. Thus, the unfiltered and the median filtered images are distinguishable. Furthermore, a novel strategy combining unsharp masking (USM) sharpening is implemented to suppress the effect of image content and find a universal threshold which is utilized to classify two types of images. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms some state-of-the-art methods at the condition of a low false alarm rate, especially when the test images are in low quality and low resolution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11042-018-6831-6
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Digital image forensics, Median filtering, JPEG compression, USM sharpening, False alarm rate
Sharpening,Unsharp masking,Noise reduction,Computer vision,Median filter,Pattern recognition,Computer science,JPEG,Artificial intelligence,Constant false alarm rate,Detector,Standard test image
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
78
7
1573-7721
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenjie Li136859.74
Rongrong Ni271853.52
Xiaolong Li32264114.79
Yao Zhao41926219.11