Title :
Estimation of MB steganography based on least square method
Author :
Xu, Mankun ; Li, Tianyun ; Ping, Xijian
Author_Institution :
Nat. Digital Switching Syst. Eng. & Technol. Res. Center
Abstract :
In the available Jpeg steganography methods, model-based (MB) steganography technique is more secure than Jsteg, F5 and OutGuess. In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the embedded length of secret messages of MB steganography. We provide an expected distribution of the non-zero AC coefficients´ high precision histogram to fit the stegotexts´, and adopt the cropped and recompressed calibration to obtain the carrier image approximation. Then, we present a new algorithm to estimate the embedding rates based on least square method. The attacks towards MB are successful with experimental evidence on 2700 carrier images and the stego images of different quality factor and different embedding rates.
Keywords :
data compression; image coding; least squares approximations; steganography; F5; Jpeg; MB steganography; OutGuess; carrier image approximation; cropped calibration; embedding rates; high precision histogram; least square method; model based steganography estimation; nonzero AC coefficients; quality factor; recompressed calibration; secret message embedded length estimation; stego images; stegotexts; Calibration; Discrete cosine transforms; Histograms; Least squares approximation; Least squares methods; Q factor; Security; Steganography; Switching systems; Systems engineering and theory; generalized Cauchy distribution; least square method; steganalysis; steganography;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009. ICASSP 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2353-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-6149
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4959882