This study proposes a color image steganalysis algorithm that extracts highdimensional rich model features from the residuals of channel differences. First, the advantages of features extracted from channel differences are analyzed, and it shown that features extracted in this manner should be able to detect color stego images more effectively. A steganalysis feature extraction method based on channel differences is then proposed, and used to improve two types of typical color image steganalysis features. The improved features are combined with existing color image steganalysis features, and the ensemble classifiers are trained to detect color stego images. The experimental results indicate that, for WOW and S-UNIWARD steganography, the improved features clearly decreased the average test errors of the existing features, and the average test errors of the proposed algorithm is smaller than those of the existing color image steganalysis algorithms. Specifically, when the payload is smaller than 0.2 bpc, the average test error decreases achieve 4% and 3%.

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It is one of the potential threats to the Internet of Things to reveal confidential messages by color image steganography. The existing color image steganalysis algorithm based on channel geometric transformation measures owns higher accuracy than the others, but it fails to utilize the correlation between the gradient amplitudes of different color channels. Therefore, this article points out that the color image steganography weakens the correlation between the gradient amplitudes of different color channels and proposes a color image steganalysis algorithm based on channel gradient correlation. The proposed algorithm extracts the co-occurrence matrix feature from the gradient amplitude residuals among different color channels and then combines it with the existing color image steganalysis features to train the ensemble classifier for color image steganalysis. The experimental results show that, for WOW and S-UNIWARD steganography, compared with the existing algorithms, the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing algorithms.

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