Detection of HEVC double compression based on boundary effect of TU and non-zero DCT coefficient distribution

• Published in: Journal of visual communication and image representation Vol. 103; p. 104255
• Main Authors: Wang, Ruochen, Sun, Tanfeng, Xu, Qiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.08.2024
• Subjects: Double compression detection; HEVC coding; Statistical feature; Video forensics; Statistical feature; HEVC coding; Double compression detection; Video forensics
• ISSN: 1047-3203
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2024.104255

Video content tampering is a growing concern. While tampering, perpetrator needs to decompress and re-compress a video. Thus, detecting whether a video has undergone double compression is an important issue in video forensics. In this paper, a novel method is proposed for the detection of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) double compression. Firstly, theoretical and statistical analysis are stated on the quality degradation during double compression, and the impact of Quantization Parameter (QP) on Transforming Unit (TU) and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients distribution. Then 3 sub-features based on Boundary Effect of TU and Non-Zero DCT Coefficients are calculated. Further, 3 sub-features are combined into a 26-dimension feature as the proposed detection feature, which is finally fed to the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) classifier. Experiments are conducted on video sets with different settings, and the result proves that our method achieves better performance under several situations compared with two existing methods. •A novel method for HEVC video double compression detection under different QPs.•Boundary effect of TU is proposed to construct sub-feature.•Non-zero DCT coefficient distribution is analyzed for constructing sub-features.•Experimental results address the effectiveness of various video setting.