Reliable histogram features for detecting LSB matching

Kaiwei Cai, Xiaolong Li, Tieyong ZENG, Bin Yang, Xiaoqing Lu*

*Corresponding author for this work

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2010 - Proceedings
Pages1761-1764
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event2010 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2010 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: 26 Sept 201029 Sept 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference2010 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2010
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong
Period26/09/1029/09/10

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

User-Defined Keywords

  • Information hiding
  • LSB matching
  • Steganalysis

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