A Secure Video Steganography Based on ECC and DCT

2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 5378-5383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Xian Wei ◽  
Peng Yang ◽  
Xiao Yuan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Error Correcting Code ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Video Steganography ◽  
Secret Information ◽  
Dct Coefficients

Video steganographic algorithm has the advantage of large hiding capacity, but we neglect the security when seek the capacity. In order to balance the two aspects, both to meet the high capacity of improving the load of video carrier and can safely protect the secret information. This paper presents the error-correcting code which can effectively correct burst errors and use it in video steganography. The secret information is hidden in error-correcting code first and then integrated the code with secret information with the video carrier’s DCT coefficients to insert the secret information in video carrier. The experiment results show that: this algorithm not only has great visual and statistical invisibility, also the safety of secret information is more significant. And achieve the objective of effective protect the secret information.

scholarly journals Video steganography based on DCT psychovisual and object motion

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1015-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fuad ◽  
Ferda Ernawan
Keyword(s):  
Video Quality ◽  
Object Motion ◽  
Multimedia Data ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Video Steganography ◽  
Limited Bandwidth ◽  
Video Frames ◽  
Dct Coefficients ◽  
Video Reconstruction

Steganography is a technique of concealing the message in multimedia data. Multimedia data, such as videos are often compressed to reduce the storage for limited bandwidth. The video provides additional hidden-space in the object motion of image sequences. This research proposes a video steganography scheme based on object motion and DCT-psychovisual for concealing the message. The proposed hiding technique embeds a secret message along the object motion of the video frames. Motion analysis is used to determine the embedding regions. The proposed scheme selects six DCT coefficients in the middle frequency using DCT-psychovisual effects of hiding messages. A message is embedded by modifying middle DCT coefficients using the proposed algorithm. The middle frequencies have a large hiding capacity and it relatively does not give significant effect to the video reconstruction. The performance of the proposed video steganography is evaluated in terms of video quality and robustness against MPEG compression. The experimental results produce minimum distortion of the video quality. Our scheme produces a robust of hiding messages against MPEG-4 compression with average NC value of 0.94. The proposed video steganography achieves less perceptual distortion to human eyes and it's resistant against reducing video storage.

scholarly journals Studying Audio Capacity as Carrier of Secret Images in Steganographic System

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (49) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Ahlam Majead Kadhim ◽  
Huda Muhamed Jawad
Keyword(s):  
High Capacity ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Audio File ◽  
Audio Steganography ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Secret Information

Steganography art is a technique for hiding information where the unsuspicious cover signal carrying the secret information. Good steganography technique must be includes the important criterions robustness, security, imperceptibility and capacity. The improving each one of these criterions is affects on the others, because of these criterions are overlapped each other.  In this work, a good high capacity audio steganography safely method has been proposed based on LSB random replacing of encrypted cover with encrypted message bits at random positions. The research also included a capacity studying for the audio file, speech or music, by safely manner to carrying secret images, so it is difficult for unauthorized persons to suspect presence of hidden image. Measures calculations of SNR, SNR segmental, SNR spectral, MSE and correlation show that, audio music cover file (2channales) is the safest uses as arrier with replace the 9 number of LSB without noticeable noise. Bits of secret message can be hiding capacity reach up to 28 % of the total music cover audio size and the three type's measures of SNR are 32, 28 and 31 dB. For speech cover audio the replacing LSB is safely uses at LSB bits number 6, where the hiding capacity is reach up to 37 % of size speech cover audio at 37, 36 and 39 dB for three type's measures of SNR. Correlation of cover samples was did not effected as a result of hiding secret image, where its value is up to 0.99 for all hiding operations.

scholarly journals An ECC/DCT-Based Robust Video Steganography Algorithm for Secure Data Communication

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramadhan J. Mstafa ◽  
Khaled M. Elleithy
Keyword(s):  
Moving Objects ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Error Correcting Codes ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Video Steganography ◽  
Embedding Efficiency ◽  
Video Frames ◽  
Comparison Results ◽  
Dct Coefficients

Nowadays, the science of information hiding has gained tremendous significance due to advances in information and communication technology. The performance of any steganographic algorithm relies on the embedding efficiency, embedding payload, and robustness against attackers. Low hidden ratio, less security, and low quality of stego videos are the major issues of many existing steganographic methods. In this paper, we propose a novel video steganography method in discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain based on error correcting codes (ECC). To improve the security of the proposed algorithm, a secret message is first encrypted and encoded by using Hamming and BCH codes. Then, it is embedded into the DCT coefficients of video frames. The hidden message is embedded into DCT coefficients of each Y, U, and V planes excluding DC coefficients. The proposed algorithm is tested under two types of videos that contain slow and fast moving objects. The experiential results of the proposed algorithm are compared with three existing methods. The comparison results show that our proposed algorithm outperformed other algorithms. The hidden ratio of the proposed algorithm is approximately 27.53%, which is considered as a high hiding capacity with a minimal tradeoff of the visual quality. The robustness of the proposed algorithm was tested under different attacks.  

scholarly journals REVERSIBLE JPEG-BASED HIDING METHOD WITH HIGH HIDING-RATIO

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 433-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEE SHU-TENG CHEN ◽  
SIAN-JHENG LIN ◽  
JA-CHEN LIN
Keyword(s):  
High Capacity ◽  
Jpeg Compression ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Dct Coefficients ◽  
The Given

The stego-images generated by many existing hiding techniques are not economic in size, and hence need compression. Unfortunately, compression usually destroys the secret content hidden inside. To solve this dilemma, some hiding methods based on compression code (rather than the image itself) are reported. This paper proposes a high-capacity and high-hiding-ratio "reversible" steganography method based on JPEG-compression code. In the proposed method, the JPEG compression code of an image is used as the cover media. An 8×8 hiding-capacity table is firstly evaluated, which is then utilized to modify the quantization table attached to the given JPEG code. The two quantization tables (modified and original) together can map the DCT coefficients of each block to some larger DCT coefficients, with secret data hidden inside these larger DCT coefficients. In the decoding process, after lossless extraction of the hidden secret data, the proposed method can also recover the original JPEG-compression code. Experimental results show that our method outperforms other JPEG-based hiding methods (reversible or not) regarding both hiding-ratio and stego-image's quality.

A robust and high capacity data hiding method for JPEG compressed images with SVD-based block selection and advanced error correcting techniques

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Kusan Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Error Correcting Codes ◽  
Human Vision ◽  
Data Embedding ◽  
Compressed Images ◽  
Matrix Encoding ◽  
Dct Coefficients ◽  
Capacity Data ◽  
Value Decomposition

In this paper, we propose a frequency domain data hiding method for the JPEG compressed images. The proposed method embeds data in the DCT coefficients of the selected 8 × 8 blocks. According to the theories of Human Visual Systems  (HVS), human vision is less sensitive to perturbation of pixel values in the uneven areas of the image. In this paper we propose a Singular Value Decomposition based image roughness measure (SVD-IRM) using which we select the coarse 8 × 8 blocks as data embedding destinations. Moreover, to make the embedded data more robust against re-compression attack and error due to transmission over noisy channels, we employ Turbo error correcting codes. The actual data embedding is done using a proposed variant of matrix encoding that is capable of embedding three bits by modifying only one bit in block of seven carrier features. We have carried out experiments to validate the performance and it is found that the proposed method achieves better payload capacity and visual quality and is more robust than some of the recent state-of-the-art methods proposed in the literature.

scholarly journals High-Capacity Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Images by Information Preprocessing

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Xi-Yan Li ◽  
Xia-Bing Zhou ◽  
Qing-Lei Zhou ◽  
Shi-Jing Han ◽  
Zheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
Reversible Data Hiding ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Original Image ◽  
Chaos Encryption ◽  
Secret Information ◽  
Encrypted Image ◽  
Encrypted Images ◽  
Scanned Documents

With the development of cloud computing, high-capacity reversible data hiding in an encrypted image (RDHEI) has attracted increasing attention. The main idea of RDHEI is that an image owner encrypts a cover image, and then a data hider embeds secret information in the encrypted image. With the information hiding key, a receiver can extract the embedded data from the hidden image; with the encryption key, the receiver reconstructs the original image. In this paper, we can embed data in the form of random bits or scanned documents. The proposed method takes full advantage of the spatial correlation in the original images to vacate the room for embedding information before image encryption. By jointly using Sudoku and Arnold chaos encryption, the encrypted images retain the vacated room. Before the data hiding phase, the secret information is preprocessed by a halftone, quadtree, and S-BOX transformation. The experimental results prove that the proposed method not only realizes high-capacity reversible data hiding in encrypted images but also reconstructs the original image completely.

Secret Communication Techniques

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Image Steganography ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
Video Steganography ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
Secret Communication ◽  
Text Steganography ◽  
Distortion Measure

This chapter introduces the reader to cryptography, steganography, watermarking, and quality parameters of image steganography techniques. Cryptography is a technique for secret communication. Steganography is a technique for secret and unnoticeable communication. The watermarking techniques hide watermarks inside the digital media. There are four types of steganography techniques: (1) image steganography, (2) audio steganography, (3) video steganography, and (4) text steganography. The quality of image steganographic algorithms can be measured by three parameters like (1) hiding capacity, (2) distortion measure, and (3) security check.

scholarly journals High-Payload Data-Hiding Method for AMBTC Decompressed Images

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Jung-Yao Yeh ◽  
Chih-Cheng Chen ◽  
Po-Liang Liu ◽  
Ying-Hsuan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Data Hiding ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Perceptual Distortion ◽  
Hiding Capacity ◽  
High Data ◽  
Capacity Data ◽  
High Payload ◽  
Better Than

Data hiding is the art of embedding data into a cover image without any perceptual distortion of the cover image. Moreover, data hiding is a very crucial research topic in information security because it can be used for various applications. In this study, we proposed a high-capacity data-hiding scheme for absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) decompressed images. We statistically analyzed the composition of the secret data string and developed a unique encoding and decoding dictionary search for adjusting pixel values. The dictionary was used in the embedding and extraction stages. The dictionary provides high data-hiding capacity because the secret data was compressed using dictionary-based coding. The experimental results of this study reveal that the proposed scheme is better than the existing schemes, with respect to the data-hiding capacity and visual quality.

scholarly journals An Effective Watermarking Method Based on Energy Averaging in Audio Signals

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Tsai ◽  
S. M. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Data Compression ◽  
Error Correcting Code ◽  
Audio Signal ◽  
Segment Length ◽  
Signal Quality ◽  
Audio Signals ◽  
Segment Sequence ◽  
Audio Quality ◽  
Dct Coefficients

Methods based on discrete cosine transform (DCT) have been proposed for digital watermarking of audio signals; however, the watermark is often vulnerable to data compression and signal processing. This paper presents an effective audio watermarking method by energy averaging of DCT coefficients such that an audio signal with watermark is robust to data processing. The method is to divide an audio signal into segments by three parameters defining the segment length, the segment sequence of watermark location, and the frequency range of DCT coefficients for watermark location. An error correcting code is also integrated to improve audio signal quality after watermarking. Experimental results show that the method is robust to data compression and many other kinds of signal processing. No original signal is required for decoding the watermark. Comparison of watermarking performance with a recent work validates that the watermarking method has better audio quality and higher robustness.

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