Improved 3D mesh steganalysis using homogeneous kernel map

Abstract

Steganalysis targets to detect the existence of hidden information in a given content. In this paper we propose to use a local feature set which is designed to enhance discrimination of features obtained from a cover and a stego mesh. The proposed feature captures the fine deformation of the 3D mesh surface induced by a steganography or watermarking method. In our 3D steganalysis approach, in addition, we apply the homogeneous kernel map to the local feature set, which make it possible to bring much more discrimination via non-linear mapping. The proposed feature set and its combination with the homogeneous feature map have shown good performance on two different steganography and watermarking algorithm with a well known and widely used 3D mesh database through repeated experiments.