A Game Theoretic Framework for Colluder-Detector Behavior Forensics

Digital fingerprinting is an emerging technology in media security to identify the source of illicit copies and trace traitors. Collusion is a powerful attack, in which a group of attacker collectively mount attacks against digital fingerprinting. In multimedia fingerprinting, there exists complex dynamics between the colluders and the fingerprint detector, who have conflicting objectives and influence each other´s performance and decisions. This paper proposes a game-theoretic framework to formulate and analyze the colluder-detector dynamics, in an effort to understand its impact on the traitor tracing performance of multimedia fingerprints. We investigate how colluders adjusts the collusion attacks to minimize their risk under the fairness constraint; and study how the fingerprint detector adapts his/her detection strategy accordingly to improve the collusion resistance, which is shown to be the min-max solution.