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JPEG ghost

Definition

A localisation method that re-saves the image at multiple quality levels, then maps per-pixel residuals to find regions whose minimum error quality differs from the surrounding image, identifying pasted content with a different compression history.

Related terms

Blocking artefacts
Visible rectangular discontinuities at 8x8 block boundaries, caused by independent quantisation of adjacent blocks. At splice boundaries, misaligned block grids produce a...
DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform)
The mathematical transformation applied to each 8x8 pixel block during JPEG compression, converting spatial pixel values into a set of frequency coefficients...
Double-JPEG compression
The result of decoding a JPEG, applying any edit, and saving as JPEG again. The coefficient histograms of doubly-compressed images have a...
Quality factor
The 1-100 scale that most JPEG encoders expose to the user, controlling how aggressively the quantisation table rounds coefficients. The factor is...
Quantisation table
A matrix of divisors applied to DCT coefficients during JPEG compression. Higher divisors produce lower quality. The specific table used is often...

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