Title
Using high-dimensional image models to perform highly undetectable steganography
Abstract
This paper presents a complete methodology for designing practical and highly-undetectable stegosystems for real digital media. The main design principle is to minimize a suitably-defined distortion by means of efficient coding algorithm. The distortion is defined as a weighted difference of extended state-of-the-art feature vectors already used in steganalysis. This allows us to "preserve" the model used by steganalyst and thus be undetectable even for large payloads. This framework can be efficiently implemented even when the dimensionality of the feature set used by the embedder is larger than 107. The high dimensional model is necessary to avoid known security weaknesses. Although high-dimensional models might be problem in steganalysis, we explain, why they are acceptable in steganography. As an example, we introduce HUGO, a new embedding algorithm for spatial-domain digital images and we contrast its performance with LSB matching. On the BOWS2 image database and in contrast with LSB matching, HUGO allows the embedder to hide 7× longer message with the same level of security level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-16435-4_13
Information Hiding
Keywords
DocType
Volume
real digital media,security level,new embedding algorithm,lsb matching,spatial-domain digital image,high-dimensional model,high-dimensional image model,undetectable steganography,efficient coding algorithm,high dimensional model,security weakness,extended state-of-the-art feature,digital media,feature vector
Conference
6387
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-642-16434-X
237
PageRank 
References 
Authors
9.97
25
3
Search Limit
100237
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomáš Pevný1104345.20
Tomás Filler282836.18
Patrick Bas374230.95