Visualization of JPEG metadata. (English)
Badioze Zaman, Halimah (ed.) et al., Visual informatics: Bridging research and practice. First international visual informatics conference, IVIC 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 11‒13, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-05035-0/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5857, 543-550 (2009).
Summary: There are a lot of information embedded in JPEG image than just graphics. Visualization of its metadata would benefit digital forensic investigator to view embedded data including corrupted image where no graphics can be displayed in order to assist in evidence collection for cases such as child pornography or steganography. There are already available tools such as metadata readers, editors and extraction tools but mostly focusing on visualizing attribute information of JPEG Exif. However, none have been done to visualize metadata by consolidating markers summary, header structure, Huffman table and quantization table in a single program. In this paper, metadata visualization is done by developing a program that able to summarize all existing markers, header structure, Huffman table and quantization table in JPEG. The result shows that visualization of metadata helps viewing the hidden information within JPEG more easily.