Every camera sensor leaves unique traces on the acquired images that can be thought of as a camera fingerprint. This work presents an efficient algorithm for clustering images based on their camera fingerprints. The algorithm performs a fast preliminary clustering based on a compressed representation of the camera fingerprints, then it refines the initial clusters using full-size fingerprints. The efficiency of the method is further improved by scanning the images according to a ranking index that depends on fingerprint estimation quality. The results confirm that the proposed method achieves a performance comparable to the state of the art approaches, with a significantly lower computational complexity, especially on large datasets. The method can also handle cases in which the number of clusters is much larger than the average size of the clusters.

Fast image clustering based on compressed camera fingerprints / Khan, S.; Bianchi, T.. - In: SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION. - ISSN 0923-5965. - 91:(2021), p. 116070. [10.1016/j.image.2020.116070]

Fast image clustering based on compressed camera fingerprints

Khan S.;Bianchi T.
2021

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Every camera sensor leaves unique traces on the acquired images that can be thought of as a camera fingerprint. This work presents an efficient algorithm for clustering images based on their camera fingerprints. The algorithm performs a fast preliminary clustering based on a compressed representation of the camera fingerprints, then it refines the initial clusters using full-size fingerprints. The efficiency of the method is further improved by scanning the images according to a ranking index that depends on fingerprint estimation quality. The results confirm that the proposed method achieves a performance comparable to the state of the art approaches, with a significantly lower computational complexity, especially on large datasets. The method can also handle cases in which the number of clusters is much larger than the average size of the clusters.
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