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A steganalysis method in the DCT domain

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In this paper, we propose a steganalysis method based on the principle of additive operator, which chooses non-zero AC coefficients as carriers, with secret information independent of the carrier information flow. In the proposed method, AC coefficient statistical and energy features are initially extracted and used to construct a 3D feature vector. By employing the principle of Fisher linear discriminate analysis, a flexible discriminate classifier suitable for the extracted features is designed to improve detection performance. We infer and confirm theory of change in the statistical and energetic characteristics of the AC coefficient before and after additive steganography. The effectiveness of the proposed method is proven by the experiments. Moreover, the proposed method consistently outperforms related methods.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Jiangqun Ni research team in Sun Yat-sen University, China, they provide EBS steganography tool software. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61170271, 61272310, 61203288) and the ZheJiang province Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LY15F020032,LY12F02031).

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  1. College of Computer Science and Technology, ZheJiang University of Technology, Liuhe Road, No 180, Hang Zhou, ZheJiang Province, 310023, Peoples Republic of China

    Mao Jia-Fa, Xiao Gang & Sheng Wei-Guo

  2. Information Security Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, BeiJing, 100876, China

    Niu Xin-Xin

  3. Department of Information Technology, Shanghai Jianqiao University, ShangHai, 201315, China

    Zhang Na-Na

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Jia-Fa, M., Xin-Xin, N., Gang, X. et al. A steganalysis method in the DCT domain. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 5999–6019 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2708-0

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