Robust and discriminative image authentication based on standard model feature

The goal of image authentication is to accept content-preserving operations and reject content-altering manipulations. So,it is increasingly approached by extracting content-based invariant features from original images and verifying their preservation in received images at later times. Since sparsity usually implies invariance, sparse feature representation has drawn significant attention from the research community. But only if discrimination is also found with a sparse feature, can it be successfully applied in image authentication. This paper proposes a sparse feature for image authentication by exploring the biologically-motivated standard model. Experimental results demonstrate both robustness and discrimination of the feature, and its effectiveness in tamper detection and location as well.