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Building a digital camera fingerprint from cropped or corrupted images

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NSA

A method of identifying a digital camera is disclosed. First and second digital images generated by the camera have dimensions that are not equal. The method includes calculating noise residuals and normalized cross-correlations (NCCs) between the noise residuals corresponding to candidate translations. The method further includes calculating a noise floor and identifying first and second peak values corresponding to translations. The method further includes calculating a peak ratio, determining that the peak ratio exceeds an alignment threshold and calculating a digital camera fingerprint for the digital camera based on the noise residuals and the first translation. The method further includes receiving a digital image, calculating a noise residual of the digital image, and determining that the image was generated by the digital camera based on the noise residual and the fingerprint and generating a record associating the image with the camera.

Inventors: 
Charlton, Sarah T.; Martin, Carla D.
Patent Number: 
Technical domain: 
Communications
FIle Date: 
2016-04-18
Grant Date: 
2016-12-20
Grant time: 
246 days
Grant time percentile rank: 
4
Claim count percentile rank: 
6
Citations percentile rank: 
1
'Cited by' percentile rank: 
1
Assignee: 
US DIRECTOR NAT SECURITY AGENC