Remarks on Speeding up the Digital Camera Identification using Convolutional Neural Networks

In this paper, we consider the issue of digital camera identification based on images. This topic matches the area of digital forensics. The problem is well known in the literature and many algorithms based on camera’s fingerprint have been proposed. In this paper, we discuss the digital camera identification based on convolutional neural networks (CNN). CNNs are state-of-the-art method in computer vision and are widely utilized in many applications. Our goal is to find out whether it is possible to speed up the process of learning the networks by the images. We conduct a set of representative experiments which show that replacing the ReLU with SELU activation function and adjusting the network’s hyperparamethers (e.g. learning rate) may have a significant impact on reduction time of learning. We also consider using the dropout layer. The experiments are held on representative image dataset, consisting of many images coming from modern cameras and show effectiveness of our propositions