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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.
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Cogranne, R., Zitzmann, C., Retraint, F., Nikiforov, I., Fillatre, L., Cornu, P. (2013). Statistical Detection of LSB Matching Using Hypothesis Testing Theory. In: Kirchner, M., Ghosal, D. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36373-3_4
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