Cited by 2,144Advanced Steganography and Watermarking TechniquesDigital Media Forensic DetectionImage and Video Quality Assessment

Rich Models for Steganalysis of Digital Images

Fridrich, Jessica, Kodovsky, Jan·2012·IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Abstract

We describe a novel general strategy for building steganography detectors for digital images. The process starts with assembling a rich model of the noise component as a union of many diverse submodels formed by joint distributions of neighboring samples from quantized image noise residuals obtained using linear and nonlinear high-pass filters. In contrast to previous approaches, we make the model assembly a part of the training process driven by samples drawn from the corresponding cover- and stego-sources. Ensemble classifiers are used to assemble the model as well as the final steganalyzer due to their low computational complexity and ability to efficiently work with high-dimensional feature spaces and large training sets. We demonstrate the proposed framework on three steganographic algorithms designed to hide messages in images represented in the spatial domain: HUGO, edge-adaptive algorithm by Luo, and optimally coded ternary$\pm {\hbox{1}}$embedding. For each algorithm, we apply a simple submodel-selection technique to increase the detection accuracy per model dimensionality and show how the detection saturates with increasing complexity of the rich model. By observing the differences between how different submodels engage in detection, an interesting interplay between the embedding and detection is revealed. Steganalysis built around rich image models combined with ensemble classifiers is a promising direction towards automatizing steganalysis for a wide spectrum of s…

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Authors
Fridrich, J., & Kodovsky, J.
Affiliations
Binghamton University (US)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Published
2012-06
Volume
7
Issue
3
Pages
868-882
ISSN
  • 1556-6013 (ISSN-L)
  • 1556-6021
OpenAlex
W2009130368
Cited by
2,144
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 169 · 2025: 198 · 2024: 222 · 2023: 218 · 2022: 235 · 2021: 234 · 2020: 206 · 2019: 173 · 2018: 127 · 2017: 100 · 2016: 86 · 2015: 74 · 2014: 63 · 2013: 28 · 2012: 11
FWCI
57.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (publishedVersion)
Funders
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-, FA9550-09-1-0147)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Video Quality Assessment
Keywords
steganalysis, image steganography, ensemble classifiers, high-pass filter, Hugo

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