Video Camera Identification from Sensor Pattern Noise with a Constrained ConvNet

Derrick Timmerman, Guru Bennabhaktula, Enrique Alegre, George Azzopardi

2021

Abstract

The identification of source cameras from videos, though it is a highly relevant forensic analysis topic, has been studied much less than its counterpart that uses images. In this work we propose a method to identify the source camera of a video based on camera specific noise patterns that we extract from video frames. For the extraction of noise pattern features, we propose an extended version of a constrained convolutional layer capable of processing color inputs. Our system is designed to classify individual video frames which are in turn combined by a majority vote to identify the source camera. We evaluated this approach on the benchmark VISION data set consisting of 1539 videos from 28 different cameras. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that addresses the challenge of video camera identification on a device level. The experiments show that our approach is very promising, achieving up to 93.1% accuracy while being robust to the WhatsApp and YouTube compression techniques. This work is part of the EU-funded project 4NSEEK focused on forensics against child sexual abuse.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Timmerman D., Bennabhaktula G., Alegre E. and Azzopardi G. (2021). Video Camera Identification from Sensor Pattern Noise with a Constrained ConvNet.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-758-486-2, pages 417-425. DOI: 10.5220/0010246804170425

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram21,
author={Derrick Timmerman and Guru Bennabhaktula and Enrique Alegre and George Azzopardi},
title={Video Camera Identification from Sensor Pattern Noise with a Constrained ConvNet},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,},
year={2021},
pages={417-425},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010246804170425},
isbn={978-989-758-486-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,
TI - Video Camera Identification from Sensor Pattern Noise with a Constrained ConvNet
SN - 978-989-758-486-2
AU - Timmerman D.
AU - Bennabhaktula G.
AU - Alegre E.
AU - Azzopardi G.
PY - 2021
SP - 417
EP - 425
DO - 10.5220/0010246804170425