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Double compression detection for H.264 videos with adaptive GOP structure

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As a blind forensic method, double compression detection is valid to multiple manipulations. However, the existing methods only consider to detect the videos with fixed Group of Pictures (GOP). In this paper, we put forward a novel double compression detection method for videos with both fixed and adaptive GOP structure in H.264 videos. Considering that video may contain adaptive GOPs caused by fast moving contents or scene changes, in our double compression detection scheme, temporal segmentation is first used to divide video into static and rapid periods which contain normal fixed and adaptive GOPs respectively. Then, new artifacts based on the sequence of frame’s byte count (FBC) are analyzed. A feature sequence composed of recognizable distances is generated by combining the artifacts in the static and rapid periods of video. Finally, to reveal the intrinsic property of the feature sequence, a scoring strategy is designed to determine whether or not double compression. The experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme is effective to detect double compression of H.264 videos, and it outperforms other existing state-of-the-art methods.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development of China (2018YFC0807306), National NSF of China (61672090, 61532005), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2018JBZ001).

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  1. Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China

    Haichao Yao, Rongrong Ni & Yao Zhao

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Advanced Information Science and Network Technology, Beijing, 100044, China

    Haichao Yao, Rongrong Ni & Yao Zhao

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Yao, H., Ni, R. & Zhao, Y. Double compression detection for H.264 videos with adaptive GOP structure. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 5789–5806 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08306-5

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