StegoAppDB Database Sample

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Authors: Jennifer Newman, Li Lin, Wenhao Chen, Stephanie Reinders, Yangxiao Wang, Min Wu, Yong Guan
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Abstract

This dataset is a subset of the full StegoAppDB database (Newman 2019) and contains 51,200 images from 28 mobile phones across 10 models. Student photographers captured 100 high-resolution images per phone (2,800 total). These images were used to create 2,800 input images and 38,000 stego images. The stego images were generated by six mobile apps—five Android (MobiStego, Passlok, PixelKnot, PocketStego, SteganographyM) and one iOS (Pictograph)—at five embedding rates (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%). Through reverse-engineering, 7,600 cover images were extracted representing the preprocessed state before message embedding, providing authentic cover-stego pairs for training detection algorithms. Hidden messages were randomly extracted from Shakespeare's 634 plays (Shakespeare, 1993).This dataset is publicly available and has no copyright or privacy issues associated with it.Commercial licensing enquiries should be directed to the Iowa State University Office of Innovation Commercialization at: licensing@iastate.edu, or 515-294-4740ReferencesNewman, Jennifer, Li Lin, Wenhao Chen, Stephanie Reinders, Yangxiao Wang, Min Wu, and Yong Guan. "StegoAppDB: a steganography apps forensics image database." arXiv preprint arXiv: 1904.09360 (2019).Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/,1993.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques Digital Media Forensic Detection Digital and Cyber Forensics

Publication details

Journal / source
DataShare: the Open Data Repository of Iowa State University
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Dataset