Alhazen Image Forensics System

In today's world of internet, information spreads in a matter of seconds. The connectivity offered by social media has revolutionized our personal, economic, and social life. People have access to information on a single click, which also has its pros and cons. Many people/organizations use this qui

Project Title

Alhazen Image Forensics System

Project Area of Specialization

Software Engineering

Project Summary

In today's world of internet, information spreads in a matter of seconds. The connectivity offered by social media has revolutionized our personal, economic, and social life. People have access to information on a single click, which also has its pros and cons. Many people/organizations use this quick access to internet for their propaganda purpose, they spread their version of events and/or views about an event, idea, or entity and using digital media is a major way of doing that as people tend to believe more on visual proofs.

Our project focuses on providing its users to check for traces of forgery in the subject images. This ensures that users such as academic professionals, researchers of digital media forensics domain, law enforcement agency professionals, journalists, and other media professionals, and public should have a tool available to filter out forged images to increase their work’s efficiency and credibility.

Project Objectives

Following will be the intended objectives of the project:

• Enabling users to view the metadata information for their desired image such as image creation date and time, geotag location of image, device, and model information of the image etc. and all that with no requirements of any technical expertise.
• Enabling user to view the visual elements data or to save that data (in case of batch image processing) such as image color density, color saturation, and texture etc. within few seconds.
• To give user the ability to view the histogram of the subject image with high accuracy.
• To enable user to have an easy-to-use publicly available tool for checking for traces of forgery in subject images.
• Proving users with a system that does not require any specialized training, but rather should be useable for every common person aware of a computer.

Project Implementation Method

The AFIS is developed based on the research carried out by Haodong Li (Student Member of IEEE), Weiqi Luo (Senior Member of IEEE) and Jiwu Huang (Fellow of IEEE) which was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and SecurityVolume 12Issue 12Dec. 2017 pp 3050–3064.

Benefits of the Project

Nowadays, all types of people come across a point when their professional or personal life depend on making decisions, decisions to form and opinions which ultimately lead people in taking a certain course of action.

Now the problem is that the opinion is made based on some evidence which can be an image being circulated on media, an image submitted to journalist as a proof for a news story, an image submitted as an academic work to a teacher by a student, an image being presented in the court of law. In short, that person must make a certain opinion based on that image and then must take a certain course of action, but that person does not have any means to verify the authenticity of that image.

 

There is no publicly available easy-to-use tool to detect the image has been tampered or not. In such circumstances, any course of action taken will always have the shadow of doubt over it.

We have seen and, in some cases, heard of many celebrities defamed and mentally stressed by trolls, public office holders ridiculed and trolled, newspapers retracting their news articles after finding out that their “visual proofs” were not authentic, students submitting ingenuine academic work and what not. All that because of some image not being able to be checked for authenticity because there is simply no publicly available tool in Pakistan to enable users to do so.

Our AIFS will overcome the issues mentioned above by providing a simple way for users to detect traces of forgery in images.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

• 1. 1. Deliverables
• AIFS will be the first of its kind system publicly available for users.
• It will be a desktop-based system which will provide its user and interactive and easy-to-user interface to adapt to, thus the AIFS will be useable with almost every type of user who is aware of how a computer works.
• The user will not have to download any external component as a prerequisite of AIFS as it will be a stand-alone system requiring only the conventional I/O device.
• It will process images in the least time possible, but can take relatively longer duration to process large size images.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Software System

Core Industry

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Core Technology

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Sustainable Development Goals

Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

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