Conference Proceeding

Run length based steganalysis for LSB matching steganography

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Osaka Univ., Suita
DOI:10.1109/ICME.2008.4607444 ISBN: 978-1-4244-2570-9 pp.353 - 356 In proceeding of: Multimedia and Expo, 2008 IEEE International Conference on
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ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a steganalysis algorithm to detect spatial domain least significant bit (LSB) matching steganography, which is much harder than the detection of LSB replacement. We use the fusion of histogram of run length and histogram characteristic function to detect the LSB matching. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate that this method has superior results compared with other recently proposed algorithms, and shows that the proposed method is efficient to detect the LSB matching steganography on compressed or uncompressed images.

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    Article: A Learning-Based Steganalytic Method against LSB Matching Steganography
    Zhihua Xia, Lincong Yang, Xingming Sun, Wei Liang, Decai Sun, Zhiqiang Ruan
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    ABSTRACT: This paper considers the detection of spatial domain least significant bit (LSB) matching steganography in gray images. Natural images hold some inherent properties, such as histogram, dependence between neighboring pixels, and dependence among pixels that are not adjacent to each other. These properties are likely to be disturbed by LSB matching. Firstly, histogram will become smoother after LSB matching. Secondly, the two kinds of dependence will be weakened by the message embedding. Accordingly, three features, which are respec-tively based on image histogram, neighborhood degree histogram and run-length histogram, are extracted at first. Then, support vector machine is utilized to learn and dis-criminate the difference of features between cover and stego images. Experimental results prove that the proposed method possesses reliable detection ability and outperforms the two previous state-of-the-art methods. Further more, the conclusions are drawn by analyzing the individual performance of three features and their fused feature.
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compressed
 
Experimental results
 
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histogram
 
histogram characteristic function
 
LSB
 
LSB replacement
 
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spatial domain
 
steganalysis algorithm
 
steganography
 
uncompressed images