Learning to Hash for Personalized Image Authentication
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This paper takes a fresh look at the image authentication problem and proposes an alternative framework for personalized authentication based on the hash learning technology. Conventional image authentication methods tend to provide a general authentication framework for all images with the fixed quantization strategy and fixed control parameters determined based on given limited images and attacks. However, they may suffer from more or less misjudgments in practice, not to mention performance degradation when encountering out-of-sample images. Instead of proposing a new feature extraction algorithm, a novel personalized authentication framework which incorporates the distance metric learning technology and supervised quantization strategy to the process of image authentication is proposed in this paper. The tamper detection task is reformulated as a new supervised manipulation classification problem. For each input image, various content-preserving and content-changing samples are generated automatically firstly. Then, feature representations of all samples can be obtained by existing feature extraction methods. After that, a weighted large margin for manipulation classification (WLMMC) scheme is proposed to learn an effective feature mapping space to improve the classification performance between content-changing samples and content-preserving samples. During the quantization stage, a novel supervised personalized quantization strategy (SPQ), which is motivated by the observation that different attacks have different degrees of influence on feature components, is proposed to learn more compact yet discriminative binary codes for each input image. Effectiveness of the proposed framework is qualitatively and quantitatively demonstrated on a variety of images. Extensive experiments show that the proposed framework can significantly improve the authentication performance over the state-of-the-art techniques while achieve more compact hash codes flexibly as required.
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- Authors
- Su, Z., Yao, L., Mei, J., Zhou, L., & Li, W.
- Affiliations
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Nanjing University of Finance and Economics (CN)
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- Published
- 2021-04
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1648-1660
- ISSN
- 1051-8215 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-2205
- OpenAlex
- W3035651807
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 1.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFB1004904)
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (30918012203)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61300160)
- 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 › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
- Keywords
- image authentication, hash code learning, tamper detection, metric learning, binary codes
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