Title: Performance analysis of image steganalysis techniques and future research directives

Authors: Sanchita Pathak; Ratnakirti Roy; Suvamoy Changder

Addresses: Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India ' Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India ' Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India

Abstract: Steganography is a technique of hiding information imperceptibly inside other medium so that the very fact of communication taking place remains hidden. Recently, the reach of internet has extensively widened through social networking and blogging websites and a high amount of digital media interchange, especially in the form of digital images is being witnessed. This poses a huge threat to security from hackers and terrorists, as this medium can be used for covert communication, thus justifying the need for good steganalysis techniques to detect the existence of hidden messages in digital images. This paper analyses some steganalysis techniques which attack various kinds of spatial domain steganography techniques. Some of them are chi-square attack, triples analysis, sample pair analysis, TPVD steganalysis and analysis of adjacent pixel pair steganalysis. This paper also identifies the current research challenges and discusses possible directions for future research in this field.

Keywords: steganography; steganalysis; spatial domain steganography; chi-square attack; triples analysis; sample pair analysis; SPA; TPVD steganalysis; analysis of adjacent pixel pair steganalysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2018.089586

International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2018 Vol.10 No.1, pp.1 - 24

Received: 26 Dec 2015
Accepted: 07 Oct 2016
Published online: 31 Jan 2018 *

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