A Markov process based approach to effective attacking JPEG steganography

Yun Q. Shi; Chunhua Chen; Wen Chen

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74124-4_17

A Markov process based approach to effective attacking JPEG steganography

Yun Q. Shi, Chunhua Chen, Wen Chen

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel steganalysis scheme is presented to effectively detect the advanced JPEG steganography. For this purpose, we first choose to work on JPEG 2-D arrays formed from the magnitudes of quantized block DCT coefficients. Difference JPEG 2-D arrays along horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions are then used to enhance changes caused by JPEG steganography. Markov process is applied to modeling these difference JPEG 2-D arrays so as to utilize the second order statistics for steganalysis. In addition to the utilization of difference JPEG 2-D arrays, a thresholding technique is developed to greatly reduce the dimensionality of transition probability matrices, i.e., the dimensionality of feature vectors, thus making the computational complexity of the proposed scheme manageable. The experimental works are presented to demonstrate that the proposed scheme has outperformed the existing steganalyzers in attacking OutGuess, F5, and MB1.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Information Hiding - 8th International Workshop, IH 2006, Revised Selected Papers
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	249-264
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9783540741237
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74124-4_17
State	Published - 2007
Event	8th International Workshop on Information Hiding, IH 2006 - Alexandria, VA, United States Duration: Jun 10 2006 → Jun 12 2006

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	4437 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	8th International Workshop on Information Hiding, IH 2006
Country/Territory	United States
City	Alexandria, VA
Period	6/10/06 → 6/12/06

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Shi, Y. Q., Chen, C., & Chen, W. (2007). A Markov process based approach to effective attacking JPEG steganography. In Information Hiding - 8th International Workshop, IH 2006, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 249-264). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4437 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74124-4_17

Shi, Yun Q. ; Chen, Chunhua ; Chen, Wen. / A Markov process based approach to effective attacking JPEG steganography. Information Hiding - 8th International Workshop, IH 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag, 2007. pp. 249-264 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Shi, YQ, Chen, C & Chen, W 2007, A Markov process based approach to effective attacking JPEG steganography. in Information Hiding - 8th International Workshop, IH 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4437 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 249-264, 8th International Workshop on Information Hiding, IH 2006, Alexandria, VA, United States, 6/10/06. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74124-4_17

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Information Hiding - 8th International Workshop, IH 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag, 2007. p. 249-264 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4437 LNCS).

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