Blind steganalysis: a countermeasure for binary image steganography

Kang Leng Chiew; Josef Pieprzyk

doi:10.1109/ARES.2010.66

Blind steganalysis: a countermeasure for binary image steganography

Kang Leng Chiew, Josef Pieprzyk

School of Computing

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new blind steganalytic method to detect the presence of secret messages embedded in black and white images using the steganographic techniques. We start by extracting several sets of matrix, such as run length matrix, gap length matrix and pixel difference. We also apply characteristic function on these matrices to enhance their discriminative capabilities. Then we calculate the statistics which include mean, variance, kurtosis and skewness to form our feature sets. The presented empirical works demonstrate our proposed method can effectively detect three different types of steganography. This proves the universality of our proposed method as a blind steganalysis. In addition, the experimental results show our proposed method is capable of detecting small amount of the embedded message.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2010)
Place of Publication	Piscataway, N.J.
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	653-658
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781424458806, 9780769539652
ISBN (Print)	9781424458790
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ARES.2010.66
Publication status	Published - Feb 2010
Event	5th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security, ARES - 2010 - Krakow, Poland Duration: 15 Feb 2010 → 18 Feb 2010

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Other	5th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security, ARES - 2010
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Krakow
Period	15/02/10 → 18/02/10

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Chiew, KL & Pieprzyk, J 2010, Blind steganalysis: a countermeasure for binary image steganography. in 2010 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2010) ., 5438022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, N.J., pp. 653-658, 5th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security, ARES - 2010, Krakow, Poland, 15/02/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/ARES.2010.66

Blind steganalysis: a countermeasure for binary image steganography. / Chiew, Kang Leng; Pieprzyk, Josef.
2010 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2010) . Piscataway, N.J.: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010. p. 653-658 5438022.

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