Abstract
Recent advances in machine learning and computer vision have made it simple to manipulate a variety of media, including satellite images. Most of the commercially available satellite images go through the process of orthorectification to remove potential distortions due to terrain variations. This orthorectification process typically involves the use of rational polynomial coefficients (RPC) that geometrically remap the pixels in the original image to the rectified image. This paper proposes the first method to verify the authenticity of RPC metadata in an orthorectified satellite image. The steps include calculating the Residual Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) pattern from the image using a linear predictor based residual spectral analysis and comparing with Expected Residual DFT pattern that is obtained using the RPC metadata associated with the image. If the metadata associated with orthorectified image is correct, then the Residual-DFT pattern (which represents image data) and the Expected-Residual-DFT pattern (which represents metadata) should be similar. We use SSIM (Structural Similarity Index Metric) to quantify the similarity and thereby verify if the data has been tampered or not. Detailed experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves over 97% accuracy in the majority of binary tampering detection tests.
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