File carving bibliography
In chronological order, oldest to most recent.
Basic Techniques
An analysis of disc carving techniques, by Mikus, Nicholas A., Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School. March 2005.
Scalpel: A Frugal, High Performance File Carver, by Golden G. Richard and Vassil Roussev, DFRWS 2005
Massive threading: Using GPUs to increase the performance of digital forensics tools, by Lodovico Marziale, Golden G. Richard III*, Vassil Roussev, DFRWS 2007.
Fragment Recovery Carving
Automated Reassembly of Fragmented Images, by Anandabrata Pal, Kulesh Shanmugasundaram, Nasir Memon, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003.
Automated reassembly of file fragmented images using greedy algorithms, by Anandabrata Pal and Nasir Memon, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, February 2006, pp 385-393.
Carving Contiguous and Fragmented Files with Fast Object Validation, by Simson Garfinkel, Digital Forensics Workshop (DFRWS 2007), Pittsburgh, PA, August 2007.
In-Place File Carving, by Golden G. Richard III, Vassil Roussev, and Lodovico Marziale, IFIP WG 11.9, Advances in Digital Forensics, 2007.
Detecting File Fragmentation Point Using Sequential Hypothesis Testing, by Anandabrata Pal, Husrev Sencar, Nasir Memon, DFRWS, 2008.
Identification and Recovery of JPEG Files with Missing Fragments, by Husrev Sencar and Nasir Memon. DFRWS, 2009.
Sector Discrimination
An Empirical Analysis of Disk Sector Hashes for Data Carving, by Yoginder Singh Dandass, Nathan Joseph Necaise, and Sherry Reede Thomas, 2008.
Evaluations
Measuring and Improving the Quality of File Carving Methods by S.J.J. Kloet , Master's thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, August 2007