Steganography and steganalysis is a relatively new-fangled scientific discipline in security systems and digital forensics, respectively, but one that has matured greatly over the past two decades. In any specialism of human endeavour, it is imperative to periodically pause and review the state of the discipline for what has been achieved till date. This article scrutinizes where the discipline of steganography and steganalysis at this point in time in context to the common user and new researchers in terms of current trends. Also, what has been accomplished in order to critically examine what has been done well and what ought to be done better. The state-of-the-art techniques for steganography and steganalysis (image and video) have been deliberated for the last 5 years literature. Further, the paper also takes stock the dataset and tools available for multimedia steganography and steganalysis with the examples where steganography has been used in real-life. It is a corpus of the author’s opinion and the viewpoints of different other researchers and practitioners, working in this discipline. Additionally, experiments were done using image steganography techniques to analyse the recent trends. This survey is intended to provide a complete guide for common people and new researchers and scholars approaching this field, sight on the existing and the future of steganography and steganalysis.

隐写术和隐写分析分别是安全系统和数字取证学领域的一门相对较新的科学学科，但在过去的二十年中，它已经发展成熟。在任何人类努力的专长中，都必须定期暂停并回顾该学科的状态，以了解迄今为止取得的成就。本文根据当前趋势，针对普通用户和新研究人员，仔细研究了隐写术和隐写分析的学科。另外，为了批判性地检查哪些方面做得好以及哪些方面应该做得更好，已经完成了哪些工作。在最近的5年文献中，人们一直在研究隐写术和隐写分析（图像和视频）的最新技术。进一步，本文还总结了可用于多媒体隐写术和隐写分析的数据集和工具，并举例说明了在现实生活中使用隐写术的例子。它是作者的观点以及从事该学科的其他研究人员和实践人员的观点的整体。此外，还使用图像隐写术技术进行了实验，以分析最新趋势。这项调查旨在为普通民众以及接近该领域的新研究人员和学者，提供有关隐写术和隐写分析的现有和未来的完整指南。此外，还使用图像隐写术技术进行了实验，以分析最新趋势。这项调查旨在为普通民众以及接近该领域的新研究人员和学者，提供有关隐写术和隐写分析的现有和未来的完整指南。此外，还使用图像隐写术技术进行了实验，以分析最新趋势。这项调查旨在为普通民众以及接近该领域的新研究人员和学者，提供有关隐写术和隐写分析的现有和未来的完整指南。