Radial distortion correction, applied by in-camera or out-camera software/firmware alters the supporting grid of the image so as to hamper PRNU-based camera attribution. Existing solutions to deal with this problem try to invert/estimate the correction using radial transformations parameterized with few variables in order to restrain the computational load; however, with ever more prevalent complex distortion corrections their performance is unsatisfactory. In this paper we propose an adaptive algorithm that by dividing the image into concentric annuli is able to deal with sophisticated corrections like those applied out-camera by third party software like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Gimp and PT-Lens. We also introduce a statistic called cumulative peak of correlation energy (CPCE) that allows for an efficient early stopping strategy. Experiments on a large dataset of in-camera and out-camera radially corrected images and on a in-the-wild dataset of images from smartphones show that our solution improves the state of the art in terms of both accuracy and computational cost.

An Adaptive Method for Camera Attribution Under Complex Radial Distortion Corrections / Montibeller, Andrea; Pérez-González, Fernando. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY. - ISSN 1556-6013. - 19:(2024), pp. 385-400. [10.1109/TIFS.2023.3318933]

An Adaptive Method for Camera Attribution Under Complex Radial Distortion Corrections

Montibeller, Andrea
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2024-01-01

Abstract

Radial distortion correction, applied by in-camera or out-camera software/firmware alters the supporting grid of the image so as to hamper PRNU-based camera attribution. Existing solutions to deal with this problem try to invert/estimate the correction using radial transformations parameterized with few variables in order to restrain the computational load; however, with ever more prevalent complex distortion corrections their performance is unsatisfactory. In this paper we propose an adaptive algorithm that by dividing the image into concentric annuli is able to deal with sophisticated corrections like those applied out-camera by third party software like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Gimp and PT-Lens. We also introduce a statistic called cumulative peak of correlation energy (CPCE) that allows for an efficient early stopping strategy. Experiments on a large dataset of in-camera and out-camera radially corrected images and on a in-the-wild dataset of images from smartphones show that our solution improves the state of the art in terms of both accuracy and computational cost.
2024
Montibeller, Andrea; Pérez-González, Fernando
An Adaptive Method for Camera Attribution Under Complex Radial Distortion Corrections / Montibeller, Andrea; Pérez-González, Fernando. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY. - ISSN 1556-6013. - 19:(2024), pp. 385-400. [10.1109/TIFS.2023.3318933]
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