Journal on Communications ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 139-148.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2015068

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Recognition of PQ stego images based on identifiable statistical feature

Ji-cang LU1,3,Fen-lin LIU2,3,Xiang-yang LUO2,3,Yi ZHANG2,4   

  1. 1 School of Navigation and Aerospace Engineering, Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute, Zhengzhou 450001, China
    2 School of Cyberspace Security, Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute, Zhengzhou 450001, China
    3 School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
    4 State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
  • Online:2015-03-25 Published:2017-06-21
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;China Postdoctoral Sci-ence Foundation;China Postdoctoral Sci-ence Foundation;Foundation of Science and Technology on Information Assurance Laboratory;The Excellent Youth Foundation of Henan Province of China;The Doctoral Dissertation Innovation Fund of Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute

Abstract:

A PQ (perturbed quantization) stego images recognition algorithm is proposed based on identifiable statistical feature. According to the specific changing ways of PQ steganography to image data, the proposed algorithm extracts the identifiable statistical feature that can distinguish PQ stego images from other types of stego images. Then, the SVM (support vector machines) classifier is trained to recognize PQ stego images. Experimental results show that, the proposed algorithm can reliably recognize PQ stego images from multi-class stego images generated by five types of well-known JPEG steganography (PQ、F5ns、F5、MB1 and MOD). Even though the stego images generated by F5、nsF5、MB1 and MOD are not used for training classifier, the proposed algorithm can still effectively recognize PQ stego images.

Key words: steganalysis, stego image recognition, PQ steganography, identifiable statistical feature

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