Lingyun Xiang^1,*, Rong Wang¹, Yuhang Liu¹, Yangfan Liu¹, Lina Tan^2,3

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 2383-2399, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037067

Abstract Prevailing linguistic steganalysis approaches focus on learning sensitive features to distinguish a particular category of steganographic texts from non-steganographic texts, by performing binary classification. While it remains an unsolved problem and poses a significant threat to the security of cyberspace when various categories of non-steganographic or steganographic texts coexist. In this paper, we propose a general linguistic steganalysis framework named LS-MTL, which introduces the idea of multi-task learning to deal with the classification of various categories of steganographic and non-steganographic texts. LS-MTL captures sensitive linguistic features from multiple related linguistic steganalysis tasks and can concurrently handle diverse tasks with a… More >

Rukiye Karakis^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 4649-4666, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035881

Abstract Medical image steganography aims to increase data security by concealing patient-personal information as well as diagnostic and therapeutic data in the spatial or frequency domain of radiological images. On the other hand, the discipline of image steganalysis generally provides a classification based on whether an image has hidden data or not. Inspired by previous studies on image steganalysis, this study proposes a deep ensemble learning model for medical image steganalysis to detect malicious hidden data in medical images and develop medical image steganography methods aimed at securing personal information. With this purpose in mind, a dataset containing brain Magnetic Resonance… More >

Wanxia Yang^*, Miaoqi Li, Beibei Zhou, Yan Liu, Kenan Liu, Zhiyu Hu

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.128, No.2, pp. 623-637, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.015629

Abstract To address the difficulty of detecting low embedding rate and high-concealment CNV-QIM (complementary neighbor vertices-quantization index modulation) steganography in low bit-rate speech codec, the code-word correlation model based on a BiLSTM (bi-directional long short-term memory) neural network is built to obtain the correlation features of the LPC codewords in speech codec in this paper. Then, softmax is used to classify and effectively detect low embedding rate CNV-QIM steganography in VoIP streams. The experimental results show that for speech steganography of short samples with low embedding rate, the BiLSTM method in this paper has a superior detection accuracy than state-of-the-art methods… More >

Peng Liu¹, Songbin Li^1,*, Qiandong Yan¹, Jingang Wang¹, Cheng Zhang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1565-1574, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016635

Abstract Analysis-by-synthesis linear predictive coding (AbS-LPC) is widely used in a variety of low-bit-rate speech codecs. Most of the current steganalysis methods for AbS-LPC low-bit-rate compressed speech steganography are specifically designed for a specific coding standard or category of steganography methods, and thus lack generalization capability. In this paper, a general steganalysis method for detecting steganographies in low-bit-rate compressed speech under different standards is proposed. First, the code-element matrices corresponding to different coding standards are concatenated to obtain a synthetic code-element matrix, which will be mapped into an intermediate feature representation by utilizing the pre-trained dictionaries. Then, bidirectional long short-term memory… More >

Adeeb M. Alhomoud^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 69-88, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.014773

Abstract This research article provides an up-to-date review of spatial-domain steganography. Maintaining the communication as secure as possible when transmitting secret data through any available communication channels is the target of steganography. Currently, image steganography is the most developed field, with several techniques are provided for different image formats. Therefore, the general image steganography including the fundamental concepts, the terminology, and the applications are highlighted in this paper. Further, the paper depicts the essential characteristics between information hiding and cryptography systems. In addition, recent well-known techniques in the spatial-domain steganography, such as LSB and pixel value differencing, are discussed in detail… More >

Enlu Li¹, Zhangjie Fu^1,2,3,*, Siyu Chen¹, Junfu Chen¹

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.2, No.4, pp. 183-190, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2020.015010

Abstract With the development of natural language processing, deep learning, and other technologies, text steganography is rapidly developing. However, adversarial attack methods have emerged that gives text steganography the ability to actively spoof steganalysis. If terrorists use the text steganography method to spread terrorist messages, it will greatly disturb social stability. Steganalysis methods, especially those for resisting adversarial attacks, need to be further improved. In this paper, we propose a two-stage highly robust model for text steganalysis. The proposed method analyzes and extracts anomalous features at both intra-sentential and inter-sentential levels. In the first phase, every sentence is first transformed into… More >

Junxiang Wang^{1, *}, Lin Huang¹, Ying Zhang¹, Yonghong Zhu¹, Jiangqun Ni², Yunqing Shi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.1, pp. 325-344, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09784

Abstract To measure the security for hot searched reversible data hiding (RDH) technique, especially for the common-used histogram-shifting based RDH (denoted as HS-RDH), several steganalysis schemes are designed to detect whether some secret data has been hidden in a normal-looking image. However, conventional steganalysis schemes focused on the previous RDH algorithms, i.e., some early spatial/pixel domain-based histogram-shifting (HS) schemes, which might cause great changes in statistical characteristics and thus be easy to be detected. For recent improved methods, such as some adaptive prediction error (PE) based embedding schemes, those conventional schemes might be invalid, since those adaptive embedding mechanism would effectively… More >

Yuwei Chen^{1, 2}, Yuling Chen^{1, *}, Yu Yang^{1, 2}, Xinda Hao², Ning Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1259-1271, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06723

Abstract Local binary pattern (LBP) is one of the most advanced image classification recognition operators and is commonly used in texture detection area. Research indicates that LBP also has a good application prospect in steganalysis. However, the existing LBP-based steganalysis algorithms are only capable to detect the least significant bit (LSB) and the least significant bit matching (LSBM) algorithms. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a steganalysis model called msdeLTP, which is based on multi-scale local ternary patterns (LTP) and derivative filters. The main characteristics of the msdeLTP are as follows: First, to reduce the interference of image content on… More >

Xuyu Xiang¹, Jiaohua Qin^{1, *}, Junshan Tan¹, Neal N. Xiong¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 963-976, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.06394

Abstract In this paper, a new adaptive calibration algorithm for image steganalysis is proposed. Steganography disturbs the dependence between neighboring pixels and decreases the neighborhood node degree. Firstly, we analyzed the effect of steganography on the neighborhood node degree of cover images. Then, the calibratable pixels are marked by the analysis of neighborhood node degree. Finally, the strong correlation calibration image is constructed by revising the calibratable pixels. Experimental results reveal that compared with secondary steganography the image calibration method significantly increased the detection accuracy for LSB matching steganography on low embedding ratio. The proposed method also has a better performance… More >

Zhonghao Li¹, Laijin Meng¹, Shutong Xu¹, Zhaohong Li^1,2,*, Yunqing Shi³, Yuanchang Liang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.59, No.2, pp. 563-574, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05565

Abstract Steganalysis is a technique used for detecting the existence of secret information embedded into cover media such as images and videos. Currently, with the higher speed of the Internet, videos have become a kind of main methods for transferring information. The latest video coding standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) shows better coding performance compared with the H.264/AVC standard published in the previous time. Therefore, since the HEVC was published, HEVC videos have been widely used as carriers of hidden information.
In this paper, a steganalysis algorithm is proposed to detect the latest HEVC video steganography method which is based… More >