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Individual Source Camera Identification with Convolutional Neural Networks

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In this paper we consider the issue of digital camera identification which matches the area of digital forensics. This problem is well-known in the literature and many algorithms based on camera’s fingerprint have been proposed. However, one may find that there is a little number of methods providing a fast and accurate digital camera identification. This problem is especially observed in terms of today’s digital cameras, producing images of big sizes. In this paper we discuss several existing approaches based on convolutional neural networks (CNN). We try to find out whether it is possible to speed up the process of learning the networks by the images. One of the findings include replacing the ReLU with SELU activation function. We experimentally show that using SELU speeds up significantly the process of learning. We also compare the identification accuracy of all considered methods. The experiments are held on extensive image dataset, consisting of many images coming from modern cameras.

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The project financed under the program of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education under the name “Regional Initiative of Excellence” in the years 2019–2022 project number 020/RID/2018/19, the amount of financing 12,000,000.00 PLN.

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Bernacki, J., Costa, K.A.P., Scherer, R. (2022). Individual Source Camera Identification with Convolutional Neural Networks. In: Szczerbicki, E., Wojtkiewicz, K., Nguyen, S.V., Pietranik, M., Krótkiewicz, M. (eds) Recent Challenges in Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1716. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8234-7_4

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