Title
A machine learning forensics technique to detect post-processing in digital videos
Date Issued
01 October 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Technology has brought great benefits to human beings and has served to improve the quality of life and carry out great discoveries. However, its use can also involve many risks. Examples include mobile devices, digital cameras and video surveillance cameras, which offer excellent performance and generate a large number of images and video. These files are generally shared on social platforms and are exposed to any manipulation, compromising their authenticity and integrity. In a legal process, a manipulated video can provide the necessary elements to accuse an innocent person of a crime or to exempt a guilty person from criminal acts. Therefore, it is essential to create robust forensic methods, which will strengthen the justice administration systems and thus make fair decisions. This paper presents a novel forensic technique to detect the post-processing of digital videos with MP4, MOV and 3GP formats. Concretely, detect the social platform and editing program used to execute possible manipulation attacks. The proposed method is focused on supervised machine learning techniques. To achieve our goal, we take advantage that the social platforms and editing programs, execute filtering and compression processes on the videos when they are shared or manipulated. The result of these transformations leaves a characteristic pattern in the videos that allow us to detect the social platform or editing program efficiently. Three phases are involved in the method: 1) Dataset preparation; 2) data features extraction; 3) Supervised model creation. To evaluate the scalability of the technique in real scenarios, we used a robust, heterogeneous and far superior dataset than that used in the literature.
Start page
199
End page
212
Volume
111
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084175438
Source
Future Generation Computer Systems
ISSN of the container
0167739X
Sponsor(s)
This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 700326 . Website: http://ramses2020.eu . This paper has also received funding from THEIA (Techniques for Integrity and authentication of multimedia files of mobile devices) UCM project ( FEI-EU-19-04 ).
This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 700326. Website: http://ramses2020.eu. This paper has also received funding from THEIA (Techniques for Integrity and authentication of multimedia files of mobile devices) UCM project (FEI-EU-19-04).
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