A Study on Source Device Attribution Using Still Images

Abstract

Images are acquired and stored digitally these days. Image forensics is a science which is concerned with revealing the underlying facts about an image. The universal approaches provide a general strategy to perform image forensics irrespective of the type of manipulation. Identification of acquisition device is one of the significant universal approach. This review paper aims at analyzing the different types of device identification approaches. All research papers aiming camera and mobile detection using image analysis were acquired and then finally 60 most suitable papers were included. Out of these, 32 states of art papers were critically analyzed and compared. As every research starts with the literature review such analysis is significant. This is the first attempt for source camera and source mobile detection evaluation as per the authors knowledge. The authors have concluded that the Accuracy rate of Lens Aberration based detection techniques deteriorates when the different source camera from same brand were under consideration. The performance of color filter array Based Detection techniques dropped when the post processing operation were used on images. These techniques were vulnerable to high compression rate for JPEG images.