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This chapter presents a high-level overview of image formation in a digital camera, highlighting aspects of potential interest in forensic applications. The discussion here focuses on image processing, especially processing steps related to concealing artifacts caused by camera hardware or that tend to create artifacts themselves. Image storage format issues are also discussed.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge many helpful discussions with James E. Adams, Jr., in the development and review of this chapter. Ken Parulski also provided a great deal of assistance for the discussion of file formats.
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Deever, A., Kumar, M., Pillman, B. (2013). Digital Camera Image Formation: Processing and Storage. In: Sencar, H., Memon, N. (eds) Digital Image Forensics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0757-7_2
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