scholarly journals Color image steganalysis based on channel gradient correlation

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 155014771985203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhan Kang ◽  
Fenlin Liu ◽  
Chunfang Yang ◽  
Lingyun Xiang ◽  
Xiangyang Luo ◽  
...  

It is one of the potential threats to the Internet of Things to reveal confidential messages by color image steganography. The existing color image steganalysis algorithm based on channel geometric transformation measures owns higher accuracy than the others, but it fails to utilize the correlation between the gradient amplitudes of different color channels. Therefore, this article points out that the color image steganography weakens the correlation between the gradient amplitudes of different color channels and proposes a color image steganalysis algorithm based on channel gradient correlation. The proposed algorithm extracts the co-occurrence matrix feature from the gradient amplitude residuals among different color channels and then combines it with the existing color image steganalysis features to train the ensemble classifier for color image steganalysis. The experimental results show that, for WOW and S-UNIWARD steganography, compared with the existing algorithms, the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing algorithms.

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 155014772091782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunfang Yang ◽  
Yuhan Kang ◽  
Fenlin Liu ◽  
Xiaofeng Song ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
...  

It is a potential threat to persons and companies to reveal private or company-sensitive data through the Internet of Things by the color image steganography. The existing rich model features for color image steganalysis fail to utilize the fact that the content-adaptive steganography changes the pixels in complex textured regions with higher possibility. Therefore, this article proposes a variant of spatial rich model feature based on the embedding change probabilities in differential channels. The proposed feature is extracted from the residuals in the differential channels to reduce the image content information and enhance the stego signals significantly. Then, the embedding change probability of each element in the differential channels is added to the corresponding co-occurrence matrix bin to emphasize the interference of the residuals in textured regions to the improved co-occurrence matrix feature. The experimental results show that the proposed feature can significantly improve the detection performances for the WOW and S-UNIWARD steganography, especially when the payload size is small. For example, when the payload size is 0.05 bpp, the detection errors can be reduced respectively by 5.20% and 4.90% for WOW and S-UNIWARD by concatenating the proposed feature to the color rich model feature CRMQ1.


Author(s):  
Ahmed Toman Thahab

In modern public communication networks, digital data is massively transmitted through the internet with a high risk of data piracy. Steganography is a technique used to transmit data without arousing suspicion of secret data existence.  In this paper, a color image steganography technique is proposed in spatial domain. The cover image is segmented into non-overlapping blocks which are scattered among image size window using Burrows Wheeler transform before embedding. Secret data is embedded in each block according to its sequence in the Burrows Wheeler transform output. The hiding method is an operation of an exclusive-or between a virtual bit which is generated from the most significant bit and the least significant bits of the cover pixel. Results of the algorithm are analyzed according to its degradation of the output image and embedding capacity. The results are also compared with other existing methods.


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