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Detecting Doctored JPEG Images Via DCT Coefficient Analysis

  • Junfeng He
  • Zhouchen Lin
  • Lifeng Wang
  • Xiaoou Tang
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3953)

Abstract

The steady improvement in image/video editing techniques has enabled people to synthesize realistic images/videos conveniently. Some legal issues may occur when a doctored image cannot be distinguished from a real one by visual examination. Realizing that it might be impossible to develop a method that is universal for all kinds of images and JPEG is the most frequently used image format, we propose an approach that can detect doctored JPEG images and further locate the doctored parts, by examining the double quantization effect hidden among the DCT coefficients. Up to date, this approach is the only one that can locate the doctored part automatically. And it has several other advantages: the ability to detect images doctored by different kinds of synthesizing methods (such as alpha matting and inpainting, besides simple image cut/paste), the ability to work without fully decompressing the JPEG images, and the fast speed. Experiments show that our method is effective for JPEG images, especially when the compression quality is high.

Keywords

Discrete Cosine Transform JPEG Compression Discrete Cosine Transform Coefficient Quantization Step Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Junfeng He
    • 1
  • Zhouchen Lin
    • 2
  • Lifeng Wang
    • 2
  • Xiaoou Tang
    • 2
  1. 1.Tsinghua UniversityBeijingChina
  2. 2.Microsoft Research AsiaBeijingChina

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