A GeoTagging Scheme Using Image Steganography and GPS Information Authentication

Author

Wu, Mei-yi ; Hsu, Chuan-Chi ; Lee, Jia-Hong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Manage., Chang Jung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

2009

fDate

12-14 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1245

Lastpage

1248

Abstract

Geotagging, in which digital photos are labelled with the location where they were taken, becomes more popular today. Users can browse the photos on digital map and make the Web photo sharing and management even more conveniently. However, lacking the function of authentication and the way to deal with the situation that information within the EXIF area being falsified, the content of the photo might be inconsistent to the location it has been displayed on map. In this paper, a framework using image steganography and GPS information authentication is proposed for the problem described. By means of embedding GPS information as well as the authentication information into the image, the consistency of photo content and location can be assured. Furthermore, this scheme can be applied to authenticate that a user has ever visited a certain place.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; Web services; digital photography; geographic information systems; image coding; message authentication; steganography; EXIF area; GPS information authentication; Web photo sharing; Web service; digital map; digital photo; exchangeable image file format; geotagging scheme; image steganography; location information; Authentication; Cameras; Cellular phones; Data encapsulation; Discrete cosine transforms; Global Positioning System; Information management; Information retrieval; Steganography; Web services; GPS information; geotagging; image authentication; image steganograpy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, 2009. IIH-MSP '09. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4717-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3762-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIH-MSP.2009.301

Filename

5337451