ENF analysis on recaptured audio recordings

Electric Network Frequency (ENF) based forensic analysis is a promising tool for timestamp authentication and forgery detection in such multimedia recordings as audios and videos. ENF signal is embedded in an audio recording due to electromagnetic interference from the power lines. The time of creation of a multimedia recording can be determined by comparing the ENF signal embedded in the recording with a reference ENF database collected from the power grid. In this paper, we conduct a study of the effect of recapturing of audio recordings on the ENF embedding. We demonstrate that recaptured audio recordings pick up two ENF signals: the content ENF signal which is inherited from the original audio recording; and the recapturing ENF signal which is embedded from the recapturing process. Conventional ENF signal extraction techniques on such recordings may fail when the two ENF signals are at the same nominal value. A decorrelation algorithm is proposed to extract the content ENF signal and the recapturing ENF signal. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method in the estimation of both the ENF signals.

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