On the role of differentiation for resampling detection

Detection of resampling traces for digital image blind authentication has been addressed recently by A. C. Gallagher and later extended by B. Mahdian and S. Saic. On the other side, it is well known from the synchronization area in communications that prefiltering is an appropriate tool to improve the performance of those schemes exploiting the underlying cyclostationarity of communication signals. Thus, the detection of resampling manipulations improves significantly when the derivative of the interpolated signal is used for covariance computation. This work focuses on the role of prefiltering as a way of boosting resampling traces and, in particular, on the use of derivation.