Detecting LSB matching by characterizing the amplitude of histogram

In this paper, we present an improved method for detecting LSB matching steganography in gray-scale image. Our improvements focus on three aspects: (1) instead of using the amplitude of local extrema of the image's histogram in the previous work, we turn to considering the sum of the amplitude of each point in the histogram; (2) incorporating the calibration (downsample) technique with the current method; (3) the sum/difference image (which is defined as the sum or difference of two adjacent pixels in the original image) is taken into consideration to provide additional statistical features. Extensive experimental results show that the novel steganalyzer out-performs the previous ones.