DIGITAL FORENSICS

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 3° Year - Curriculum A
Teaching Staff: Sebastiano BATTIATO
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: INF/01 - Informatics
Taught classes: 36 hours
Exercise: 36 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course will be devoted to introduce the main bais of digital forensics.

Starting from standard definition and best practices in the field the following topics will be presented:

- Disk Forensics

- Multimedia Forensics

- Audio Forensics

- WEb data acquisition

- Tools for data analysis


Course Structure

Oral Lectures with severa practical sessions. Also some seminars will be scheduled on specific topics


Detailed Course Content

Computer Forensics basis

Multimedia Forensics

Legal and related topics


Textbook Information

Digital Image Processing - R.C. Gonzales, R.E. Woods – Pearson, Prenctice Hall 2008;

Computer Forensics - Principles and Practices - Volonino, anzaldua and Godwin - Peraon-Prenctice Hall, 2007

S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, E. Messina, G. Puglisi - Robust Image Alignment for Image Authentication and Tampering DetectionIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, Vol. 7 – Issue 4, pp. 1105-1117, 2012; (pdf)

S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Puglisi, D. Ravì – Aligning Codebooks for Near Duplicate Image DetectionMultimedia Tools and Applications - Vol.72, Issue 2, pp.1483-1506 , 2014; (pdf)

F. Galvan, G. Puglisi, A.R. Bruna, S. Battiato - First Quantization Matrix Estimation from Double Compressed JPEG Images – IEEE Transactions on IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, Vol. 9, Issue 8, pp. 1299-1310, 2014. (pdf)