Image Steganalysis Based on Statistical Moments of Wavelet Subband Histograms in DFT Domain

Abstract

This paper proposed an image Steganalysis scheme based on statistical moments of histogram of multi-level wavelet subbands in frequency domain. Our theoretical analysis has pointed out that the statistical moments in frequency domain of histogram is more sensitive to data embedding than the statistical moments of histogram in spatial domain. We test the performance of our proposed scheme over non-blind spread spectrum (SS) data hiding method, blind SS method, block based SS method, LSB method and QIM data hiding methods. Besides, steganographic tools such as Outguess, JSteg and F5 are tested. The experimental results have showed that the proposed method outperforms the prior arts by Farid and Harmsen