Steganalysis Versus Splicing Detection

Aiming at detecting secret information hidden in a given image using steganographic tools, steganalysis has been of interest since the end of 1990’s. In particular, universal steganalysis, not limited to attacking a specific steganographic tool, is of extensive interests due to its practicality. Recently, splicing detection, another important area in the field of digital forensics has attracted increasing attention. Is there any relationship between steganalysis and splicing detection? Is it possible to apply universal steganalysis methodologies to splicing detection? In this paper, we address these intact and yet interesting questions. Our analysis and experiments have demonstrated that, on the one hand, steganography and splicing have different goals and strategies, hence, generally causing different statistical artifacts on images. However, on the other hand, both of them make the touched (stego or spliced) image different from the corresponding original (natural) image. Therefore...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IWDW
• Authors: Yun Q. Shi, Chunhua Chen, Guorong Xuan, Wei Su
• Keywords: IWDW 2007, Splicing Detection, Steganalysis, Universal Steganalysis