Efficient Video Steganalytic Feature Design by Exploiting Local Optimality and Lagrangian Cost Quotient

As the opponent of motion vector (MV)-based video steganography, the corresponding symmetric steganalysis has also developed a lot in recent years, among which the logic-based steganalytic schemes, e.g., AoSO, NPELO and MVC, are the most prevailing. Although currently achieving the best detection pe...

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Main Authors: Ying Liu, Jiangqun Ni, Wenkang Su
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
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Jiangqun Ni
Wenkang Su
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description As the opponent of motion vector (MV)-based video steganography, the corresponding symmetric steganalysis has also developed a lot in recent years, among which the logic-based steganalytic schemes, e.g., AoSO, NPELO and MVC, are the most prevailing. Although currently achieving the best detection performance, these steganalytic schemes are less effective in detecting some logic-maintaining steganographic schemes. In view of the fact that the distributions of covers’ local Lagrangian cost quotients are normally more concentrated in the small value ranges than those of stegos and “spread” to the large values ranges after modifying the motion vector, the local Lagrangian cost quotient would thus be an efficient indicator to reflect the difference between cover videos and stego ones. In this regard, combining the logic-based (Lg) and local Lagrangian cost quotient (LLCQ)-based feature, we finally proposed a more effective and general steganalysis feature, i.e., Lg-LLCQ, which is composed of diverse subfeatures and performs much better than the corresponding single-type feature. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method exhibits detection performance superior to other state-of-the-art schemes and even works well under cover sources and steganographic scheme mismatch scenes, which indicates our proposed feature is more conducive to real-world applications.
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spelling doaj.art-27788b463c334e76919b68cd82ebd7402023-11-16T23:34:26ZengMDPI AGSymmetry2073-89942023-02-0115252010.3390/sym15020520Efficient Video Steganalytic Feature Design by Exploiting Local Optimality and Lagrangian Cost QuotientYing Liu0Jiangqun Ni1Wenkang Su2School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, ChinaAs the opponent of motion vector (MV)-based video steganography, the corresponding symmetric steganalysis has also developed a lot in recent years, among which the logic-based steganalytic schemes, e.g., AoSO, NPELO and MVC, are the most prevailing. Although currently achieving the best detection performance, these steganalytic schemes are less effective in detecting some logic-maintaining steganographic schemes. In view of the fact that the distributions of covers’ local Lagrangian cost quotients are normally more concentrated in the small value ranges than those of stegos and “spread” to the large values ranges after modifying the motion vector, the local Lagrangian cost quotient would thus be an efficient indicator to reflect the difference between cover videos and stego ones. In this regard, combining the logic-based (Lg) and local Lagrangian cost quotient (LLCQ)-based feature, we finally proposed a more effective and general steganalysis feature, i.e., Lg-LLCQ, which is composed of diverse subfeatures and performs much better than the corresponding single-type feature. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method exhibits detection performance superior to other state-of-the-art schemes and even works well under cover sources and steganographic scheme mismatch scenes, which indicates our proposed feature is more conducive to real-world applications.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/15/2/520video steganalysisvideo steganographymotion vectorlocal Lagrangian cost quotient
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Efficient Video Steganalytic Feature Design by Exploiting Local Optimality and Lagrangian Cost Quotient
Symmetry
video steganalysis
video steganography
motion vector
local Lagrangian cost quotient
title Efficient Video Steganalytic Feature Design by Exploiting Local Optimality and Lagrangian Cost Quotient
title_full Efficient Video Steganalytic Feature Design by Exploiting Local Optimality and Lagrangian Cost Quotient
title_fullStr Efficient Video Steganalytic Feature Design by Exploiting Local Optimality and Lagrangian Cost Quotient
title_full_unstemmed Efficient Video Steganalytic Feature Design by Exploiting Local Optimality and Lagrangian Cost Quotient
title_short Efficient Video Steganalytic Feature Design by Exploiting Local Optimality and Lagrangian Cost Quotient
title_sort efficient video steganalytic feature design by exploiting local optimality and lagrangian cost quotient
topic video steganalysis
video steganography
motion vector
local Lagrangian cost quotient
url https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/15/2/520
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