Statistical detection of LSB matching using hypothesis testing theory

  • Authors:
  • Rémi Cogranne;Cathel Zitzmann;Florent Retraint;Igor Nikiforov;Lionel Fillatre;Philippe Cornu

  • Affiliations:
  • ICD, LM2S, Université de Technologie de Troyes, UMR STMR CNRS, Troyes cedex, France;ICD, LM2S, Université de Technologie de Troyes, UMR STMR CNRS, Troyes cedex, France;ICD, LM2S, Université de Technologie de Troyes, UMR STMR CNRS, Troyes cedex, France;ICD, LM2S, Université de Technologie de Troyes, UMR STMR CNRS, Troyes cedex, France;ICD, LM2S, Université de Technologie de Troyes, UMR STMR CNRS, Troyes cedex, France;ICD, LM2S, Université de Technologie de Troyes, UMR STMR CNRS, Troyes cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • IH'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Information Hiding
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper investigates the detection of information hidden by the Least Significant Bit (LSB) matching scheme. In a theoretical context of known image media parameters, two important results are presented. First, the use of hypothesis testing theory allows us to design the Most Powerful (MP) test. Second, a study of the MP test gives us the opportunity to analytically calculate its statistical performance in order to warrant a given probability of false-alarm. In practice when detecting LSB matching, the unknown image parameters have to be estimated. Based on the local estimator used in the Weighted Stego-image (WS) detector, a practical test is presented. A numerical comparison with state-of-the-art detectors shows the good performance of the proposed tests and highlights the relevance of the proposed methodology.