US Patent Issued to Drexel University on Jan. 20 for "Learned forensic source system for identification of image capture device models and forensic similarity of digital images" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,798, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Drexel University (Philadelphia).

"Learned forensic source system for identification of image capture device models and forensic similarity of digital images" was invented by Owen Mayer (Philadelphia) and Matthew C. Stamm (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information about an image's source camera model is important knowledge in many forensic investigations. In this paper the system(s) pro-pose a system that compares two image patches to determine if they were captured by the same camera model. To do this, the system(s) first train a CNN based feature extractor to output generic, hig...