Natural Image Statistics in Digital Image Forensics

Over the past decade, with the increasing popularity of Internet and digital technology, images in digital format have become ubiquitous. At the same time, with the break-neck speeds of the development of technology that allows for digital images to be manipulated and distorted, detecting tampering or validating authenticity of digital images are of great importance for forensic practitioners. This book provides the first general framework, based on universal statistical properties of natural images, of detecting tampering and authenticating di ...