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In this paper, we approach the copy-move scenario from the perspective of an attacker whose goal is to remove such features. The attacks conceived so far against SIFT-based forensic techniques implicitly assume that all SIFT keypoints have similar properties. On the contrary, we base our attacking strategy on the observation that it is possible to classify them in different typologies. Also, one may devise attacks tailored to each specific SIFT class, thus improving the performance in terms of removal rate and visual quality. To validate our ideas, we propose to use a SIFT classification scheme based on the gray scale histogram of the neighborhood of SIFT keypoints. Once the classification is performed, we then attack the different classes by means of class-specific methods. Our experiments lead to three interesting results: (1) there is a significant advantage in using SIFT classification, (2) the classification-based attack is robust against different SIFT implementations, and (3) we are able to impair a state-of-the-art SIFT-based copy-move detector in realistic cases.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1186\/1687-5281-2013-18","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,15]],"date-time":"2013-04-15T17:00:21Z","timestamp":1366045221000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Counter-forensics of SIFT-based copy-move detection by means of keypoint classification"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"2013","author":[{"given":"Irene","family":"Amerini","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mauro","family":"Barni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Roberto","family":"Caldelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrea","family":"Costanzo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,4,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"85_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"327","DOI":"10.1007\/978-1-4614-0757-7_12","volume-title":"Digital Image Forensics","author":"R B\u00f6hme","year":"2013","unstructured":"B\u00f6hme R, Kirchner M: Counter-forensics attacking image forensics. 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