Title :
Reliable histogram features for detecting LSB matching
Author :
Cai, Kaiwei ; Li, Xiaolong ; Zeng, Tieyong ; Yang, Bin ; Lu, Xiaoqing
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Peking Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
This paper proposes a novel steganalyzer for detecting one of the most popular steganography, LSB matching (also known as “±1 embedding”). The histogram of difference image (the differences of adjacent pixels), which is usually a generalized Gaussian distribution centered at 0, is exploited for deriving statistical features. We have proved theoretically that the peak-value of the histogram would decrease after LSB matching embedding, while the renormalized histogram (the ratio of the histogram to the peak-value) would increase. Then we take the peak-value and the renormalized histogram as features for classification. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed steganalytic method outperforms some previous ones.
Keywords :
Gaussian distribution; image matching; object detection; steganography; Gaussian distribution; LSB matching detection; histogram features; steganalyzer; steganography; Feature extraction; Gray-scale; Histograms; Multimedia communication; Pixel; Security; Shape; Information hiding; LSB matching; steganalysis;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing (ICIP), 2010 17th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7992-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1522-4880
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2010.5651567