%O BookSection %F ng:chapter06 %A Ng, Tian-Tson %A Chang, Shih-Fu %A Lin, Ching-Yung %A Sun, Qibin %T Passive-blind Image Forensics %B Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights %E Zeng, W. %E Yu, H. %E Ching-Yung Lin, and %I Elsvier %X In this chapter, we will review the research area of passive-blind image forensics, i.e., an form of image analysis for finding out the condition of an image without relying on pre-registration or pre-embedded information. We consider the two main functions of passive-blind image forensics as being image forgery detection and image source identification. In this vein, we provide a detailed review of the prior work in these two areas of image forensics. Apart from this, we also give a brief history of image forgery creation, a brief review of the state-of-the-art image forgery creation techniques, the resources available to the researchers and the challenges facing the passive-blind image forensics research %U http://www.ee.columbia.edu/dvmm/publications/06/ttng-book-chapter-06.pdf %D 2006