Detection of upscale-crop and splicing for digital video authentication.

The eternal preoccupation with multimedia technology is the precursor of us becoming a civilization replete with astonishing miscellanea of digital audio-visual information. Not so long ago, this digital information (images and videos especially) savored the unique status of ‘definitive proof of occurrence of events’. However, given their susceptibility to malicious modifications, this status is rapidly depreciating. In sensitive areas like intelligence and surveillance, reliance on manipulated visual data could be detrimental. The disparity between the ever-growing importance of digital content and the suspicions regarding their vulnerability to alterations has made it necessary to determine whether or not the contents of a given digital image or video can be considered trustworthy.