Title
Estimating Previous Quantization Factors On Multiple Jpeg Compressed Images
Abstract
The JPEG compression algorithm has proven to be efficient in saving storage and preserving image quality thus becoming extremely popular. On the other hand, the overall process leaves traces into encoded signals which are typically exploited for forensic purposes: for instance, the compression parameters of the acquisition device (or editing software) could be inferred. To this aim, in this paper a novel technique to estimate "previous" JPEG quantization factors on images compressed multiple times, in the aligned case by analyzing statistical traces hidden on Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) histograms is exploited. Experimental results on double, triple and quadruple compressed images, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique while unveiling further interesting insights.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1186/s13635-021-00120-7
EURASIP JOURNAL ON INFORMATION SECURITY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
JPEG compression, Multiple quantization, Multiple compression, Quantization estimation, Image forensics
Journal
2021
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2510-523X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sebastiano Battiato1206.74
Oliver Giudice201.01
Francesco Guarnera301.01
Giovanni Puglisi400.68