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This paper deals with practical implementation of semi-fragile watermarking for CCTV footage authentication. Despite the variety of available literature, certain important aspects remain unaddressed. The existing schemes are mostly evaluated against purely academic attacks, and the most practical attacks on information trust remain unaddressed. In this paper, we focus on the collage and the visually insignificant changes attacks, which are of critical importance in the video surveillance scenario. Based on a well-known robust hash function, we design three variants of a digital image authentication scheme. We show that the choice of the watermark embedding technique, although unaddressed in the literature, has critical influence on the tampering detection accuracy. Based on the performed evaluation, we also propose small modifications of the original algorithm, which lead to further improvement of the classification performance.
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Żarnowiec, K., Korus, P., Dziech, A., Głowacz, A. (2013). Practical Implementation of Visual Hash Functions for CCTV Footage Authentication. In: Dziech, A., Czyżewski, A. (eds) Multimedia Communications, Services and Security. MCSS 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 368. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38559-9_27
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