Confidence Weighting for Sensor Fingerprinting

Presenter/Author: Scott McCloskey Honeywell Labs, Minneapolis, MN, USA scott.mccloskey@honeywell.com

Outline of Talk

1. 2. 3. 4.

Motivation for Sensor Fingerprinting Review of Chens Method Independent Testing & Analysis Confidence Weighting to Handle Persistent Edges 5. Experimental Results 6. Future Work

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Common Source Camera Identification

Problem: Given two videos (or sets of images), can we determine whether or not they were taken with the same camera? Scenario: Videos of two IED events are posted to YouTube. If they were taken with the same camera, we establish a link between the events. Applications: forensic data analysis, social network analysis Signature Data
Image/video header data

Advantages/Disadvantages
Quick and easy Easily spoofed

Model Level Identification

Lens distortions CFA interpolation Cameras w/ interchangeable/zoom lenses Monochrome images/video

Device-Level Identification
Dead pixels, dark noise Typically corrected in-camera

Photo-response non-uniformity Device specific (PRNU) of cameras sensor Signature space is large Difficult to correct in-camera
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Photo-Response Non-Uniformity (PRNU)

Due to material and manufacturing imperfections, each pixel on a sensor has a slightly different (non-uniform) response to incoming light. This is most noticeable in images of uniformly-illuminated flat fields. Because the magnitude of this noise is related to environmental conditions (temperature) and because most scenes are not flat fields, the nonuniformity is not corrected in camera. PRNU-based sensor fingerprints can distinguish between a large number of devices. If we presume only that we can distinguish three levels of response (normal, high, low), the number of signatures for a 1MP sensor is 31000000, which is practically infinite.
Step 1: Signature Extraction 1. 2. Separate each frame into scene content and noise components. Average noise component is the signature. 1. 2. 3. Step 2: Signature Comparison Compute cross-correlation of input signatures. Measure sharpness of peak Compare to threshold

Algorithm proposed by: M. Chen, J. Fridrich, and M. Goljan in Source Digital Camcorder Identification Using Sensor PhotoResponse Non-Uniformity. Proc. of SPIE, January 2007.

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Signature Extraction
Unlike other applications, where Computer Vision methods to abstract away differences between cameras to recognize scene objects (faces, etc.), we now need to abstract away differences between scenes and recognize camera-specific signatures. Input Given an input video, we remove scene content from each frame by applying a de-noising method and subtracting that result from the original. The maximum likelihood estimate of the PRNU signature is:
Noise Scene Content

where Ik is the raw frame, I^ is the de-noised frame, K is the number of k ^ frames, and P is the signature.
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Signature Comparison
1. Compute cross-correlation of signatures at different scales.

Match

Mismatch

Videos from the same camera will have similar PRNU patterns, and their cross-correlation function will appear similar to a delta function. Mismatched videos will have dissimilar PRNU patterns, and the cross-correlation will be a random pattern. 2. Measure the magnitude of the peak using Peak-to-Secondary Ratio (PSR). This is simply the ratio of the heights of the largest and second largest peaks in the cross-correlation. Compare the PSR to a threshold that determines whether the two videos are said to match.
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Evaluating Chens Algorithm: Test Videos

Testing presented in the original paper was somewhat limited, with little analysis of the results. In order to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the algorithm, we test it against a suite of videos which represent a wide range of potential inputs:
indoor/outdoor scenes zooming/moving/stationary camera flat fields, highly-textured scenes image stabilization data from camcorders and digital still cameras with video mode night mode (feature on camcorders) and daylight mode

When available, video data is acquired without compression. All test videos are 30f.p.s. for 40 seconds (K=1200). Test uncompressed video, as well as XVID-compressed derivatives.
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Evaluating Chens Algorithm: Results

Test Scenes:

Key
True Match True Non-match

False Match
False Non-match

A B C D E F G H I J X

outdoor, moving indoor, flat field indoor, tripod indoor, moving indoor, moving outdoor, stabilization indoor, moving indoor, zooming indoor, moving (night mode) flat field (night mode) indoor, moving

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Problem 1: Digital Image Stabilization

A common feature on most video cameras, image stabilization compensates for camera motion that may disorient or nauseate the viewer. Optical image stabilization uses a floating lens element to smooth out camera motion. Not a problem. Digital image stabilization uses sensors to measure camera motion. Digitized frames are shifted to compensate. The PRNU estimate relates to the sensitivity of sensor pixels. A pixel location in the video is assumed to correspond to the same sensor location in each frame. The shifting of frames violates this assumption. We are attempting to characterize the extent to which stabilization can be handled, in terms of the percentage of frames that are shifted.

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Problem 2: Persistent Edge Content

De-noising has been long studied in image processing, and the problem is well known to be ill-posed. Most de-noising methods misclassify some portion of high-frequency scene content as noise, particularly near edges. When estimating the signature, then, the area around edges will be problematic. If the video features stationary objects, as is the case with tripod-mounted cameras, edges appear in the extracted signature.
Interview Video

Extracted Signature

Edges in the signature can cause mis-classifications, particularly false negatives. False positives may also occur, if these spurious edges appear in similar locations in videos from different cameras.
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Confidence Weighting
Chens method treats each pixel of each frame the same, regardless of its content. This conflicts with the intuition that flat regions of a scene are more useful for PRNU estimation. In light of the relative difficulty inherent in noise separation near edges, we should endeavor to avoid the inevitable errors contributing significantly to the estimated signature. Based on this reasoning, we propose confidence weighting for sensor fingerprinting. Specifically, we wish to prevent erroneous noise estimates near texture/edges from distorting the estimated signature. Within frames, we weight against regions likely to produce erroneous noise estimates.

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Confidence Weighting for Persistent Edge Content

General Idea: Analyze each frame to predict failures of the de-noising method. Use this to generate a confidence map that weights the contribution of different scene regions to the estimated fingerprint. Low-confidence regions are not allowed to introduce spurious features to the fingerprint. Experiments use the confidence weight where p is a pixel, G is a Gaussian filter, and is the gradient operator.

Interview Video

Extracted Signature

Confidence Map
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Experimental Results

Old Method Key

True Match True Non-match False Match
A B C D E F G H I J X

New Method
Test Scenes:
outdoor, moving indoor, flat field indoor, tripod indoor, moving indoor, moving outdoor, stabilization indoor, moving indoor, zooming indoor, moving (night mode) flat field (night mode) indoor, moving

False Non-match
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Other Applications of Confidence Weighting

We have shown that confidence weighting can be used to improve the quality of extracted PRNU signatures by discriminating between regions within frames. The same framework can be expanded to include discrimination between frames, based on their differing utility to signature estimation. We plan to investigate two cues:
signal amplification (gain) per frame. Cameras adjust to varying light by modifying the gain, increasing it when illumination decreases. Frames with higher gain will have relatively higher levels of noise, from which PRNU will be better estimated. keyframe/interframe characterization. Most video compression formats are heterogeneous, with certain keyframes preserved at a higher quality. Noise estimated from such frames are likely to be more useful for PRNU estimation.

In addition to relative discrimination, confidence measures can be used to determine when the extracted signature is sufficient, or whether more/better frames are needed.
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