Multi-resolution Video Steganography Technique Based on Stationary Wavelet Transform (SWT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Reham A. El-Shahed ◽  
M. N. Al-Berry ◽  
Hala M. Ebeid ◽  
Howida A. Shedeed
Author(s):  
Lingamallu Naga Srinivasu ◽  
Kolakaluri Srinivasa Rao

Secured text data transmission plays an important role in communications. Discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is a time variant transform. The drawback of DWT can be overcome by stationary wavelet transform (SWT). SWT is designed to achieve the translation invariance. This chapter presents a novel secured text data transmission through video steganography using two-level stationary wavelet transform (SWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD). SVD of an image can be factored into its three components. In this chapter, text data is encrypted in cover video file using SWT and SVD techniques. First, the cover video is split into frames and each frame of the video acts as an image. Each character in the text data is encrypted with appropriate key value in each frame of the image using two-level SWT and SVD. The encrypted images are converted into video files that are called stego-video files. The text data can be recovered from the stego-video files after converting these files into frames by applying suitable key values, two-level SWT and SVD techniques.


Author(s):  
Rahul Dixit ◽  
Amita Nandal ◽  
Arvind Dhaka ◽  
Vardan Agarwal ◽  
Yohan Varghese

Background: Nowadays information security is one of the biggest issues of social networks. The multimedia data can be tampered with, and the attackers can then claim its ownership. Image watermarking is a technique that is used for copyright protection and authentication of multimedia. Objective: We aim to create a new and more robust image watermarking technique to prevent illegal copying, editing and distribution of media. Method : The watermarking technique proposed in this paper is non-blind and employs Lifting Wavelet Transform on the cover image to decompose the image into four coefficient matrices. Then Discrete Cosine Transform is applied which separates a selected coefficient matrix into different frequencies and later Singular Value Decomposition is applied. Singular Value Decomposition is also applied to the watermarking image and it is added to the singular matrix of the cover image which is then normalized followed by the inverse Singular Value Decomposition, inverse Discrete Cosine Transform and inverse Lifting Wavelet Transform respectively to obtain an embedded image. Normalization is proposed as an alternative to the traditional scaling factor. Results: Our technique is tested against attacks like rotation, resizing, cropping, noise addition and filtering. The performance comparison is evaluated based on Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, Structural Similarity Index Measure, and Normalized Cross-Correlation. Conclusion: The experimental results prove that the proposed method performs better than other state-of-the-art techniques and can be used to protect multimedia ownership.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 516
Author(s):  
Brinnae Bent ◽  
Baiying Lu ◽  
Juseong Kim ◽  
Jessilyn P. Dunn

A critical challenge to using longitudinal wearable sensor biosignal data for healthcare applications and digital biomarker development is the exacerbation of the healthcare “data deluge,” leading to new data storage and organization challenges and costs. Data aggregation, sampling rate minimization, and effective data compression are all methods for consolidating wearable sensor data to reduce data volumes. There has been limited research on appropriate, effective, and efficient data compression methods for biosignal data. Here, we examine the application of different data compression pipelines built using combinations of algorithmic- and encoding-based methods to biosignal data from wearable sensors and explore how these implementations affect data recoverability and storage footprint. Algorithmic methods tested include singular value decomposition, the discrete cosine transform, and the biorthogonal discrete wavelet transform. Encoding methods tested include run-length encoding and Huffman encoding. We apply these methods to common wearable sensor data, including electrocardiogram (ECG), photoplethysmography (PPG), accelerometry, electrodermal activity (EDA), and skin temperature measurements. Of the methods examined in this study and in line with the characteristics of the different data types, we recommend direct data compression with Huffman encoding for ECG, and PPG, singular value decomposition with Huffman encoding for EDA and accelerometry, and the biorthogonal discrete wavelet transform with Huffman encoding for skin temperature to maximize data recoverability after compression. We also report the best methods for maximizing the compression ratio. Finally, we develop and document open-source code and data for each compression method tested here, which can be accessed through the Digital Biomarker Discovery Pipeline as the “Biosignal Data Compression Toolbox,” an open-source, accessible software platform for compressing biosignal data.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Wang ◽  
Zhen Li ◽  
Xiangjun Duan ◽  
Wei Li

This paper proposes an image denoising method, using the wavelet transform and the singular value decomposition (SVD), with the enhancement of the directional features. First, use the single-level discrete 2D wavelet transform to decompose the noised image into the low-frequency image part and the high-frequency parts (the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal parts), with the edge extracted and retained to avoid edge loss. Then, use the SVD to filter the noise of the high-frequency parts with image rotations and the enhancement of the directional features: to filter the diagonal part, one needs first to rotate it 45 degrees and rotate it back after filtering. Finally, reconstruct the image from the low-frequency part and the filtered high-frequency parts by the inverse wavelet transform to get the final denoising image. Experiments show the effectiveness of this method, compared with relevant methods.


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