Forensic estimation and reconstruction of a contrast enhancement mapping

Due to the ease with which convincing digital image forgeries can be created, a need has arisen for digital forensic techniques capable of detecting image manipulation. Once image alterations have been identified, the next logical forensic task is to recover as much information as possible about the unaltered version of image and the operation used to modify it. Previous work has dealt with the forensic detection of contrast enhancement in digital images. In this paper we propose an iterative algorithm to jointly estimate any arbitrary contrast enhancement mapping used to modify an image as well as the pixel value histogram of the image before contrast enhancement. To do this, we use a probabilistic model of an image's pixel value histogram to determine which histogram entries are most likely to correspond to contrast enhancement artifacts. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.

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