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On YASS’s Non-monotonic Security Performance

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Recently, researchers have discovered unexpected bumps in the detection rate curve of yet another steganographic scheme (YASS). We refer to this abnormal phenomenon as non-monotonic security performance. This paper first analyzes this abnormality and points out that it is caused by the non-uniformity in probability of coincidence of \(8\,\times \,8\) embedding blocks and \(8\,\times \,8\) JPEG blocks. Based on this observation, we propose that further randomizing data embedding positions can overcome the non-monotonic security performance. Experimental results have demonstrated a complete removal of bumps in the detection rate curve of YASS after further randomization.

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This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China (61210006, 61272355), the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT 201206), the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety (RCS2012ZT010).

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  1. Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing , 100044, China

    Lifang Yu & Rongrong Ni

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Signal and Information Processing for High-end Printing Equipments, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing , 102600, China

    Lifang Yu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing , 100044, China

    Yao Zhao

  4. Beijing Key Laboratory of Advanced Information Science and Network Technology, Beijing , 100044, China

    Rongrong Ni

  5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ , 07102, USA

    Yun Qing Shi

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Yu, L., Zhao, Y., Ni, R. et al. On YASS’s Non-monotonic Security Performance. Circuits Syst Signal Process 33, 3527–3537 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-014-9815-4

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