Texture-based steganalysis: results for color images

Patricia Lafferty; Farid Ahmed

doi:10.1117/12.559896

18 October 2004 Texture-based steganalysis: results for color images

Patricia Lafferty, Farid Ahmed

Proceedings Volume 5561, Mathematics of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption VII, with Applications; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559896
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Steganographic and watermarking information inserted into a color image file, regardless of embedding algorithm, causes disturbances in the relationships between neighboring pixels. A method for steganalysis utilizing the local binary pattern (LBP) texture operator to examine the pixel texture patterns within neighborhoods across the color planes is presented. Providing the outputs of this simple algorithm to an artificial neural net capable of supervised learning results in the creation of a surprisingly reliable predictor of steganographic content, even with relatively small amounts of embedded data. Other tools for identifying images with steganographic content have been developed by forming a neural network input vector comprised of image statistics that respond to particular side effects of specific embedding algorithms. The neural net in our experiment is trained with general texture related statistics from clean images and images modified using only one embedding algorithm, and is able to correctly discriminate clean images from images altered by data embedded by one of various different watermarking and steganographic algorithms. Algorithms tested include various steganographic and watermarking programs and include spatial and transform domain image hiding techniques. The interesting result is that clean color images can be reliably distinguished from steganographically-altered images based on texture alone, regardless of the embedding algorithm.

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Patricia Lafferty and Farid Ahmed "Texture-based steganalysis: results for color images", Proc. SPIE 5561, Mathematics of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption VII, with Applications, (18 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559896

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