Detection of random LSB image steganography

Author

Zhi, Li ; Fen, Sui Ai

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. Inf., Sichuan Univ., Chengdu, China

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

2113

Abstract

The spatial LSB steganography results in the alteration of the smooth characteristics between adjoining pixels of the raw image. The relation between the length of embedded message and the gradient energy is theoretically analyzed, and then a steganalysis and detection method, named gradient energy-flipping rate detection (GEFR) is proposed. Through the analysis of the variation of the gradient energy, which results from the LSB steganognaphy in color and grayscale images, the secret message embedded in the target image is detected, and the length of the embedded message is estimated. The method is proved effective and accurate by simulation (detection rate reaches 0.01 bit per pixel). The applicability of all kinds of images to this algorithm is analyzed, and the error emendation method for special kinds of images is presented.

Keywords

cryptography; data encapsulation; image coding; image colour analysis; GEFR; color images; embedded message; error emendation; gradient energy; gradient energy-flipping rate detection; grayscale images; random LSB image steganography; secret message embedding; spatial LSB steganography; steganalysis; Algorithm design and analysis; Error analysis; Gray-scale; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Information security; Pixel; Steganography; Telecommunications; Transform coding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8521-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2004.1400413

Filename

1400413