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Recent years saw an explosion in the number of the counterfeit or stolen images in scientific papers. In particular in the field of biomedical science publication this is becoming a serious problem for the health and economic issues caused by this fraud [1].
In this paper we investigate the possibility to extend a technique commonly used in image forensics to associate a given image with the camera used to take it. The original technique, proposed by Fridrich et al. in [3] uses the PNU, a unique fingerprint present in each photo and generated by natural the imperfection in the silicium slice that composes the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) sensor.
We analyze the quality of the PNU present in the residual noise by evaluating the quality of this noise using its variance. The experimental results shows that some PNU is still present in the residual noise, but is less than the one present in photo from digital cameras.
This technique of evaluation is promisingly because is possible to use also to speedup the source camera identification process in videos by excluding the frames that not preserving enough PNU in the residual noise.
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Bruno, A., Cattaneo, G. (2019). Experimental Analysis of the Pixel Non Uniformity (PNU) in SEM for Digital Forensics Purposes. In: Esposito, C., Hong, J., Choo, KK. (eds) Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks. I-SPAN 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1080. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30143-9_26
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