Patent 7439989 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on October, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems and methods for detecting doctored JPEG images are described. In one aspect, a JPEG image is evaluated to determine if the JPEG image comprises double quantization effects of double quantized Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients. In response to results of these evaluation operations, the systems and methods determine whether the JPEG image has been doctored and identify any doctored portion.