A Hybrid 2D-1D CNN for Scanner Device Linking Based on Scanning Noise
Chaima Ben Rabah, Gouenou Coatrieux, Riadh Abdelfattah · 2023
Ensuring the authenticity of scanned documents is of major concern, these ones being often admitted as evidence by organizations. “Is there any way to verify that a document was scanned by a device without having access physically to the source device itself?” is a wide-open question. In this paper, we aim at answering it in the affirmative by means of the first data-driven hybrid machine learning framework that compares image noise features to check if two documents have been digitized with the same scanner or not. Such a problem is known as device linking function. Different comparative experiments conducted on the same and different scanner models on a broad set of administrative documents demonstrate that our method is efficient in linking scanned images even if scanner devices are unknown to the investigator. Our success rate of 96% appears to be the novel state of art reference in such application domain.