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Steganalysis of DWT Based Steganography Technique for SD and HD Videos

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Steganography is mainly used for secure and covert communication via digital media transferred through the internet. A successful steganography technique should have high imperceptibility, payload and should be robust against attacks. Another main aspect of the successful steganography technique is that it should not be vulnerable to the attack of steganalysis. Therefore, for covert communication, the testing of video steganography technique must be performed against steganalysis. This paper intended to perform steganalysis of the technique proposed by the authors (Dalal and Juneja in Multimed Tools Appl 1–21, 2018) using DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform) based video steganography scheme for SD and HD videos. The testing has been done using state-of-the-art steganalysis techniques using machine learning among which one is for DWT based image steganalysis, and the other two are for H.264/AVC video steganalysis. The performance has been calculated using different objective parameters such as detection accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity. The experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed technique against steganalysis with only maximum 56.6% average detection accuracy.

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This research work is supported by Technical Education Quality Improvement Project III (TEQIP III) of MHRD, Government of India assisted by World Bank under Grant Number P154523 and sanctioned to UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh (India).

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Dalal, M., Juneja, M. Steganalysis of DWT Based Steganography Technique for SD and HD Videos. Wireless Pers Commun 128, 2441–2452 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-022-10050-3

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