Moving Steganography and Steganalysis from the Laboratory into the Real World

Andrew Ker (1) , Patrick Bas (2) , Rainer Böhme (3) , Rémi Cogranne (4, 5) , Scott Craver (6) , Tomáš Filler (7) , Jessica Fridrich (8) , Tomas Pevny (9)

1 Computing Science Laboratory - Oxford University
2 LAGIS-SI
3 WWU - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster
4 LM2S - Laboratoire Modélisation et Sûreté des Systèmes
5 STMR - Sciences et Technologies pour la Maitrise des Risques
6 Department of Computer Science [Binghamton]
7 digimarc
8 Binghamton University [SUNY]
9 CTU - Czech Technical University in Prague

There has been an explosion of academic literature on stega- nography and steganalysis in the past two decades. With a few exceptions, such papers address abstractions of the hid- ing and detection problems, which arguably have become disconnected from the real world. Most published results, including by the authors of this paper, apply "in laboratory conditions" and some are heavily hedged by assumptions and caveats; significant challenges remain unsolved in order to implement good steganography and steganalysis in prac- tice. This position paper sets out some of the important questions which have been left unanswered, as well as high- lighting some that have already been addressed successfully, for steganography and steganalysis to be used in the real world.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Andrew Ker, Patrick Bas, Rainer Böhme, Rémi Cogranne, Scott Craver, et al.. Moving Steganography and Steganalysis from the Laboratory into the Real World. ACM IH-MMSEC 2013, Jun 2013, Montpellier, France. pp.ACM 978-1-4503-2081-8/13/06. ⟨hal-00836407⟩