Statistical steganalysis detector model for 8-bit depth images
Other Title(s)
نموذج إحصائي لكشف الإخفاء في الصور ذات عمق 8-بت
Dissertant
Thesis advisor
Comitee Members
Abu Arqub, Abd al-Rahman
al-Najdawi, Nijad
University
Middle East University
Faculty
Faculty of Information Technology
Department
Computer Science Department
University Country
Jordan
Degree
Master
Degree Date
2017
English Abstract
This thesis aims to develop a statistical model for steganalysis to enhance the detection of the existence of hidden data inside 8-bit depth gray-scale BMP images.
The proposed model is based on enhancing the image texture features through analyzing both full-bytes and parts of bytes of an image.
It is known that most steganography techniques embed the bits of a secret message within the right half of a cover image’s bytes, the least significant half of a byte, to avoid obvious visual distortion.
Therefore, the focus of the steganalysis process in this work is the right half part of each byte of an image under investigation.
The selected feature set is based on the gray level co-occurrence model, including contrast, homogeneity, correlation, and energy.
Additional features include: entropy, coefficient of variation of the image’s right half-bytes, correlation coefficient between left and right half-bytes, and the average of difference between the intensity of right half -bytes in successive pixels.
The work involved implementation of the proposed model in MATLAB, which consisted of modules for feature extraction, training and testing using the two-category discriminant analysis classifier, and the batch classification of a set of test images.
Testing of the detection accuracy of the proposed model was carried out in three stages.
First, a dataset of 180 mixed-source images were analyzed using 3-fold cross validation.
In the second testing stage, the 3-fold cross validation was applied using a dataset of 1500 images from a single public dataset.
The third stage realized a large-scale field test of the proposed model, using a public dataset of 5000 images for testing and 1500 images for training.
The training dataset was independent from the testing dataset, it was randomly selected from another part of the dataset that was not included in the testing dataset.
The steganalyzer combined two training feature datasets, to deal with the two embedding methods that were used to generate the stego images.
The average of the detection accuracy ranged from 97.50% to 98.73% in the validation test and 97.82% to 98.28% in the field test.
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Topics
No. of Pages
58
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Abstract in Arabic.
Chapter One : Introduction.
Chapter Two : Review of literature and related studies.
Chapter Three : Methodology and the proposed technique.
Chapter Four : Experimental results and discussion.
Chapter Five : Conclusion and future work.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Tai, Zayd Hadi. (2017). Statistical steganalysis detector model for 8-bit depth images. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-762707
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Tai, Zayd Hadi. Statistical steganalysis detector model for 8-bit depth images. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University. (2017).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-762707
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Tai, Zayd Hadi. (2017). Statistical steganalysis detector model for 8-bit depth images. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-762707
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-762707