Information Forensics and Security: A quarter-century-long journey
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Information forensics and security (IFS) is an active R&D area whose goal is to ensure that people use devices, data, and intellectual properties for authorized purposes and to facilitate the gathering of solid evidence to hold perpetrators accountable. For over a quarter century, since the 1990s, the IFS research area has grown tremendously to address the societal needs of the digital information era. The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has emerged as an important hub and leader in this area, and this article celebrates some landmark technical contributions. In particular, we highlight the major technological advances by the research community in some selected focus areas in the field during the past 25 years and present future trends.
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Perceptual hashing generates similar binary hashes for perceptually similar contents and different hashes for different contents.
“Perceptual hashing, also known as robust hashing, is a content fingerprinting technique that generates similar binary hashes for perceptually similar contents and different hashes for different contents [1].”
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- Authors
- Barni, M., Campisi, P., Delp, E. J., Doërr, G., Fridrich, J., Memon, N., Pérez-González, F., Rocha, A., Verdoliva, L., & Wu, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Siena (IT)
- Roma Tre University (IT)
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- Synamedia, Rennes, France
- Binghamton University (US)
- New York University (US)
- University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) (BR)
- University of Naples Federico II (IT)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
- Published
- 2023-07
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 67-79
- ISSN
- 1053-5888 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-0792
- OpenAlex
- W4384937769
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 4
- FWCI
- 2.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Iris (Roma Tre University) (submittedVersion)
- Use Siena air (University of Siena) (submittedVersion)
- Investigo Institutional repository of UVigo (Universidade de Vigo) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033)
- European Regional Development (ED431C 2021/47)
- National Science Foundation (2028119)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Digital and Cyber Forensics
- Keywords
- information forensics, digital forensics, digital security, digital evidence, intellectual property protection, digital watermarking, digital signatures, image forensics, digital video forensics, digital fingerprinting, digital steganography
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