Recently, an edge adaptive image stegano- graphic method based on least significant bit (LSB) matching revisited (EA-LSBMR) has been proposed, which holds good visual quality and proper security under appropriate ...Recently, an edge adaptive image stegano- graphic method based on least significant bit (LSB) matching revisited (EA-LSBMR) has been proposed, which holds good visual quality and proper security under appropriate embedding rates. However, from the extensive experiments to EA-LSBMR, we find that the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) spectrum of pixelpairs differences histogram still reveals the presence of a secret message even in a low embedding rate. To enhance the security, a modified scheme is proposed in this paper, which can defeat the above-mentioned analysis and keep the visual quality better than EA-LSBMR in higher embedding rates. Experimental results using a latest universal steganalysis method have demonstrated the proposed method's good performance.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars under Grant No. 61025013Sino-Singapore JRP under Grant No. 2010DFA11010+1 种基金National NSF of China under Grant No. 61073159Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. 2009JBZ006
文摘Recently, an edge adaptive image stegano- graphic method based on least significant bit (LSB) matching revisited (EA-LSBMR) has been proposed, which holds good visual quality and proper security under appropriate embedding rates. However, from the extensive experiments to EA-LSBMR, we find that the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) spectrum of pixelpairs differences histogram still reveals the presence of a secret message even in a low embedding rate. To enhance the security, a modified scheme is proposed in this paper, which can defeat the above-mentioned analysis and keep the visual quality better than EA-LSBMR in higher embedding rates. Experimental results using a latest universal steganalysis method have demonstrated the proposed method's good performance.