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Analysis of Parity Assignment Steganography in Palette Images

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 3683))

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In parity assignment-based steganography for palette images, all colors in a host image are divided into two subsets, and each pixel is used to carry one secret bit. This paper describes an analytic method against the parity assignment-based steganographic techniques. By finding the rule of color modifications, a steganalyst can attempt to recover the original histogram in a way that is a reverse of data embedding. Because of the abnormal colors in the original image, an excessive operation will cause some negative values in the recovered histogram. This provides a clue for revealing the presence of secret message and estimating the length of embedded bit sequence.

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  1. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, P.R. China

    Xinpeng Zhang & Shuozhong Wang

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  1. School of Business, La Trobe University, 3086, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Rajiv Khosla

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Zhang, X., Wang, S. (2005). Analysis of Parity Assignment Steganography in Palette Images. In: Khosla, R., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3683. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553939_144

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