Hybrid secret hiding schemes based on absolute moment block truncation coding

This paper presents two secret hiding schemes based on absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC). One is for embedding secrets into complex blocks and the other one is for smooth blocks. As for the smooth blocks, the small variation of the block is adopted to define the embedding rule to minimize the distortion after data embedding. As for the complex blocks, the large variation of the block is used to embed more secrets while maintaining good visual quality. In the experiments, when compared to Ou and Sun’s scheme, the positive data is to confirm the higher capacity while preserving better visual quality.     

密文域高嵌入率图像全位面可逆数据隐藏

目的 针对现有的加密域可逆信息隐藏算法未能充分利用图像的全部位平面的问题,提出了一种密文域高嵌入率图像全位面可逆数据隐藏。方法 对载体图像进行加密,然后将隐蔽信息嵌入到加密图像中,进行隐蔽传输,发送给接收者。本文将灰度图像的8个位平面都用来进行数据嵌入,并把每个位平面划分成不重叠的块,分为非连续块（块内像素值0,1都存在）和连续块（块内为全0或全1像素值）,按块进行重排列且将排列前的块标签嵌入到重排列图像中,使用流密码对图像进行加密。在数据嵌入阶段,提出了带修正信息的像素预测方法用于非连续块的嵌入。连续块中,保持块内右下角像素值不变,用于连续块的恢复,其他位置嵌入数据;非连续块中,对预测正确的像素嵌入数据,预测错误的像素保持不变。结果 实验过程实现了多种密文域可逆数据隐藏算法,本文进行大量对比实验,并在BOSSbase和BOWS-2数据集上进行验证,与其他方法比较,本文方法在BOSSbase和BOWS-2数据集上的嵌入率分别提升了42.1%和43.3%。结论 提出的加密图像可逆数据隐藏方案,通过对不同性质的块采用不同方法进行数据嵌入,利用图像全位面信息,使得方案能够获得更高的嵌入率,表明了本文方法的有效性。     

Secure variable-capacity self-recovery watermarking scheme

Since existing watermarking schemes usually cannot recover the tampered position, a secure variable-capacity self-recovery watermarking scheme is proposed. Both watermark embedding capacity and security are taken into account. The original image is divided into texture blocks and smooth blocks, and the texture blocks not only save traditional information, and save the “details” information. The so-called “details” information refers to the texture information, which not only can effectively resist mean attack, but also help to improve the quality of the recovered image to meet the needs of practical work. And then according to the characteristics of different blocks, the different length compound watermarks are produced. The so-called “compound watermarks” include the authentication watermarks and information watermarks. Authentication watermarks are used to detect the tampered region, and the information watermarks which include basic watermark and additional watermark are used to recover image. Then the compound watermarks are inserted into the other blocks based on the new proposed scheme called three level secret-key embedding scheme (TLSES). And then detect the tamper blocks and recover them by the three level tamper detection scheme (TLTDS). The experimental results show that the paper can not only accurately detect the tamper region and recover image, but also can effectively resist mean attack and collage attack.

     

自适应的密文彩色图像可逆数据隐藏算法

为了提高直方图平移算法嵌入率和图像感知质量,提出一种自适应的密文彩色图像可逆数据隐藏算法。利用Logistics混沌置乱加密算法对彩色图像进行加密;对加密后的图像块根据设定的波动阈值自适应地分成平滑块和陡峭块;对平滑块进行高平面位比特替换,对陡峭块进行直方图平移和多比特位嵌入来提升嵌入率和图像质量。实验结果表明,该算法具有较高嵌入容量且感知质量较好,当嵌入率为1.142bpp时,峰值信噪比可达35dB以上,并且抵抗噪声、剪切攻击时鲁棒性较好。     

基于自适应MSB与差值预测的大容量密文域可逆信息隐藏算法

为提高密文域可逆信息隐藏（reversible data hiding in encrypted images,RDH-EI）的嵌入容量,提出了一种基于自适应MSB（most significant bit）与差值预测的RDH-EI方案。首先将图像进行分块,然后进行块级加密和置乱以抵抗对于加密图像的分析。在嵌入数据阶段,对于自适应MSB预测的方法进行改进,将没有嵌入数据的块,利用部分块内像素之间差值很小的特点采用自适应差值预测的方法嵌入数据,以块中左上角像素为目标像素,用于预测其他像素从而腾出更多的嵌入空间。实验结果表明,所提方法具有可逆性和可分离性,并且在自适应MSB预测方法的基础上进一步提高了嵌入容量,对于512×512大小的灰度图像,平均嵌入容量提高了大约7 445 bit。     

基于码分多址复用的双重加密可逆信息隐藏

针对多数密文域可逆信息隐藏算法嵌入容量小、加密算法单一的问题,提出一种双重加密的方法,并利用码分多址复用（CDMA）的思想嵌入秘密信息。加密时将图像分块,先对像素块进行多粒度置乱加密,再对块中每个像素的中间2位用流密码加密。信息嵌入采用码分多址的思想,选取k个长为4的相互正交的矩阵嵌入k层秘密信息,利用矩阵的正交性实现秘密信息多层嵌入,在提高嵌入容量的同时保证了对像素点的较小改变。对不满足嵌入条件的像素块嵌入伪比特,可避免使用位置图。拥有信息提取密钥的合法接收者可以提取秘密信息;拥有图像解密密钥可以近似恢复原始图像;拥有两种密钥既可提取秘密信息又可无损恢复原始图像。实验结果表明,512×512灰度图像Lena在峰值信噪比（PSNR）大于36 dB时最大嵌入容量133 313 bit。所提算法增强了加密图像安全性,在保证可逆性的同时大大提高密文域可逆信息隐藏嵌入容量。     

Data hiding based on overlapped pixels using hamming code

Most data hiding schemes change the least significant bits to conceal messages in the cover images. Matrix encoding scheme is a well known scheme in this field. The matrix encoding proposed by Crandall can be used in steganographic data hiding methods. Hamming codes are kinds of cover codes. “Hamming + 1” proposed by Zhang et al. is an improved version of matrix encoding steganography. The embedding efficiency of “Hamming + 1” is very high for data hiding, but the embedding rate is low. Our proposed “Hamming + 3” scheme has a slightly reduced embedding efficiency, but improve the embedding rate and image quality. “Hamming + 3” is applied to overlapped blocks, which are composed of 2^k+3 pixels, where k=3. We therefore propose verifying the embedding rate during the embedding and extracting phases. Experimental results show that the reconstructed secret messages are the same as the original secret message, and the proposed scheme exhibits a good embedding rate compared to those of previous schemes.     

基于细粒度嵌入空间预留的密文域图像可逆信息隐藏方法

针对云数据管理中的用户隐私保护需求,密文域图像可逆信息隐藏受到了学术界的广泛关注.基于加密前预留空间的数据嵌入框架将载体图像分割成由图像块组成的两个独立区域,使用传统的可逆信息隐藏技术腾出数据嵌入空间,可以取得较好的性能.为了更好地利用图像的空间相关性,提出了一种细粒度的可伸缩嵌入空间预留策略.该策略将图像块重新排列,...     

A data hiding scheme using the varieties of pixel-value differencing in multimedia images

In this paper, a capacity promoting technique is proposed for embedding data in an image using pixel-value differencing (PVD). The PVD scheme embeds data by changing the difference value between two adjacent pixels so that more data is embedded into two pixels located in the edge area, than in the smooth area. In order to increase the embedding capacity, a new approach is proposed in this paper by searching edge area more flexibly. Instead of processing a pair of pixels at a time as proposed by Wu and Tsai, two pairs of pixels in a block are processed at the same time. In addition, we proposed a pixel-value shifting scheme to further increase the chances for embedding data. Our scheme exploits the edge areas more efficiently, thus leading to an increase in embedding capacity as shown by experimental results compared to Wu and Tsai's method. Also, the embedding result of our scheme passes the Fridrich et al.’s detection. Besides, according to the distribution of difference values, more practical range partitions are suggested for improving capacity.     

基于差值直方图的简单高效可逆信息隐藏方法

提出一种基于图像相邻像素差值直方图的可逆信息隐藏方法,运用该方法同时提高了信息嵌入容量和嵌入信息后的图像质量。首先对原始图像进行分块、扫描并求取差值直方图,然后在分块图像的差值直方图中选取最高的两个峰值点并向两个方向移位来产生空缺用于信息嵌入。算法充分利用了自然图像的相邻相似特性,同时提高了基于直方图的信息隐藏方案的峰值点数目和峰值点高度,从而大大提高信息嵌入容量。此外,算法在信息嵌入前对待嵌入信息的预处理使得在嵌入同样容量的信息时,对载体图像的影响更小,具有更好的嵌入后图像质量。     

A novel high payload steganography scheme based on absolute moment block truncation coding

In this paper, we propose an efficient steganography method in the compressed codes of absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC). Many recent related schemes focus on implementing reversible data hiding in compressed AMBTC bit stream. However, the reconstructed image of AMBTC is already lossy and the strict reversibility severely limits embedding capacity. Due to the simplicity and regularity of AMBTC codes, implementing irreversible hiding scheme causes very slight loss visual distortion of reconstructed image in exchange of significant improve in embedding capacity. In proposed scheme, smoothness of AMBTC compressed trio is firstly detected, which is then indicated by substituting the LSB of high quantity level with flag bit. For smooth trios, the differences between both quantity levels are firstly encoded by Huffman coding and then concatenated with secret data to generate modified low quantity levels. Meanwhile, all bits in bit planes of smooth trios are substituted with secret data as well. For complex trio, secret bits are only embedded into quantity levels, which is similar to smooth trio except for the differences are encoded by Lloyd-Max quantization. Experimental results indicate that proposed scheme outperforms prior methods both in imperceptivity and embedding capacity, which confirms the effectiveness and superiority of our work.

     

使用四叉树分割进行自适应空域隐写

目的 针对自适应隐写术可有效避免对载体敏感区大量修改的关键问题,为间接提高安全性和增大隐写容量,在四叉树分割和自适应像素对匹配（APPM）的基础上提出一种自适应空域隐写术。方法 首先该方法以图像块的纹理复杂度作为一致性测度并且设置图像块大小为判别准则进行图像分割,根据四叉树分割结果中面积较小的图像块属于复杂区域,较大的属于平滑区域,按照图像块面积大小将图像分成由高复杂、中复杂、低复杂三大区域构成。其次嵌密方式采用APPM,根据密信容量和载体图像选择进制数B。最后,为了保证安全性和提高容量,优先选择高复杂区嵌入不低于B进制的密信,在中复杂区进行B进制的密信嵌入,在低复杂区选择不高于B进制的密信嵌入。结果 为了验证提出的方法,选8幅经典图作为实验,在嵌入率1.92 bit/pixel的情况下,与已有PVD系列算法和DE算法相比具有更高的PSNR值,PSNR值高达48 dB。此外与APPM算法比较,在嵌入率2.5 bit/pixel情况下,该算法的平均KL距离相比传统APPM算法减小了25.37%,平均一阶Markov安全指标值相比传统APPM算法减小了12.11%,对应的平均PSNR值相比传统APPM算法提高0.43%,在嵌入率1.5 bit/pixel情况下,该算法的平均KL距离相比传统APPM算法减小了37.84%,平均一阶Markov安全指标值相比传统APPM算法减小了26.61%,对应的平均PSNR值相比传统APPM算法提高1.56%。此外,从RSP图库中随机选1 000幅图作为数据集,在嵌入率0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9和1.0 bit/pixel条件下,结合SPAM特征和SVM分类器的最小平均错误率均高于LSB系列经典算法和APPM算法。结论 1）考虑了人类视觉系统对图像不同区域的敏感性不同,通过对图像进行四叉树分割预处理,优先选择非敏感区进行隐写,保证了一定的安全性要求,低嵌入率下抗SPAM检测和统计不可见性方面比较有优势。2）在四叉树分割中,对于隐写前后图像的四叉树分割结果不同的异常情况,采用一种图像块纹理复杂度调整方案,保证了密信正确完整提取。3）利用了APPM算法的大容量特性,可以隐写嵌入率大于1 bit/pixel的密信,比较适用于大容量的密信隐写,而且可以嵌入任意进制的密信,最大程度地减少嵌入失真,此外,进行了四叉树分割预处理,在安全性方面优于传统APPM算法。     

Reversible data hiding based on block median preservation

This paper proposes a reversible data hiding scheme for gray level images. It exploits the high correlation among image block pixels to produce a difference histogram. Secret data is embedded based on a multi-level histogram shifting mechanism with reference to the integer median of each block. The image blocks are divided into four categories due to four corresponding embedding strategies, aiming at preserving the medians during data embedding. In decoder, the median pixels are retrieved first followed by the hidden data extraction, and the host image can be accurately recovered via an inverse histogram shifting mechanism after removing the secret data from the marked image. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of our scheme and demonstrate that it outperforms several previous methods in terms of capacity and marked image’s quality.     

基于差值扩展和纠错编码的可逆图像认证

针对一些敏感数字图像在认证水印嵌入过程中不能引入失真的问题,提出一种能够定位图像篡改块的可逆图像认证方案,利用纠错编码使认证数据能抵抗可能受到的篡改攻击,并用差值扩展的方式将编码后的认证数据嵌入到图像中。仿真实验结果表明,若认证通过,则图像可完全恢复到原始状态,否则,图像中篡改的块可被定位,并完全恢复其他未篡改的区域。     

基于分块的高效图像可逆认证方法

图像可逆认证是一项将可逆信息隐藏和脆弱水印相结合的新技术,其既能实现对图像的脆弱认证,还能在提取认证信息的同时无失真地恢复出原始载体,对图像的原始性和完整性认证具有非常重要的意义.针对现有可逆认证方法认证精度低、对具有复杂纹理的图像或图像中部分纹理复杂区域无法实现有效保护的问题,提出一种新的图像可逆认证方法.首先对待认证图像进行分块,根据每个子块可嵌入容量将其分为差分块和平移块,并采用不同的可逆嵌入方法对不同类型的块进行认证码嵌入操作.为了增大嵌入容量以提高对每个子块的认证效果,还采取了分层嵌入的方式.在认证方,可以通过从每个子块中提取认证码实现子块的篡改检测和定位.此外,所提方法还可与形态学中的膨胀和腐蚀操作结合以细化篡改检测标记,进一步提高检测效果.实验结果表明,所提方法能够在同样的认证精度下对纹理平滑和纹理复杂的图像进行保护,同时还能够实现对几乎所有子块的独立认证和恢复,具有广泛的适用性.     

A data embedded video coding scheme for error-prone channels

We propose a novel data embedding scheme for fractional-pixel based video coding algorithms such as H.263 and MPEG-2. By modifying the motion estimation procedure at fractional-pixel precision, two bits data can be embedded in a motion vector (MV) for an inter-mode coded macroblock (MB). For half-pixel precision motion estimation, the resulted bitstream is compatible with the current video coding standards. Performance of the proposed data embedding scheme in terms of compression efficiency is also studied. As an application example of the proposed data embedding scheme, an error-resilient video coding scheme is also presented where some redundant information, which is used to protect MVs and coding modes of MBs in one frame, is embedded into the MVs in the next frame. When errors occur in one group of blocks (GOB), the decoder can exactly recover the MVs of the corrupted GOB if the next frame can be received correctly. Simulations show that the proposed scheme has better performance than standard H.263 coding scheme for transmission over error-prone channels     

Watermarking using similarities based on fractal codification

This paper describes a digital watermarking scheme based on fractal codification for 8-bit gray scale images; it replaces range blocks by modified blocks according to the watermark bit being embedded. The main contribution of this work is a decrease in the distortion generated by the watermark embedding in the carrier image compared to the reference scheme based on fractal codification; in addition, the scheme achieves a better robustness against JPEG attacks, a decrease at 13.2 dB in distortion and up to 50% improvement in Bit Correct Ratio (BCR). The scheme relies on the selection of interest points, local searching regions and embedding regions to be successful. Finally, this document presents a comparison of the results obtained with the proposed scheme and other schemes inspired by the fractal codification.     

统计量移位的鲁棒无损图像信息隐藏

鲁棒无损信息隐藏在医学成像、法律取证、遥感等领域有广泛的应用。提出了一种鲁棒无损图像信息隐藏算法。在含密载体图像未受损情况下,正确提取秘密信息后可无损恢复原始载体图像;在含密载体图像受到一定程度JPEG2000压缩攻击后,秘密信息仍然可以被正确提取。首先将原始载体图像分块并计算每个图像块的统计量,再根据统计量绝对值的最大值选择合适的阈值对统计量进行移位,最后利用移位后的统计量来嵌入秘密信息。实验结果表明,该算法在图像视觉质量、嵌入容量和鲁棒性3个方面都具有很好的性能。与其他鲁棒无损嵌入方法相比,在图像视觉质量和鲁棒性大致相当的情况下,该算法的嵌入容量有了很大提高,表明该算法较其他算法具有明显的优势。     

图像分区选择的像素值排序可逆数据隐藏

目的 基于像素值排序（PVO）的数据隐藏算法因其高保真的优越性受到广泛重视,并不断得到改进。本文提出一种图像分区选择思想,以进一步充分利用图像的嵌入空间,改善PVO算法的嵌入性能,提高载秘图像的信噪比。方法 原始PVO算法通常采用预测差值“1”进行数据隐藏,对平滑像素组有较好的利用率和隐蔽性,而对毛躁像素组隐秘性能明显下降,算法性能与图像像素分布情况密切相关。本文在PVO算法基础上提出图像分区选择的思想,首先,将原始图像分为若干区域,然后按移位率从小到大的顺序依次选择图像区域;其次,在每个区域中选择合适的嵌入预测误差;最后,按顺序在被选区域利用该区域的最优嵌入差值完成信息嵌入。结果 假设将图像划分为8×8个区域,对本文算法与原始PVO算法进行比较,当嵌入量为1×10⁴ bit时,Elaine图像的移位率由81.59%降为74.40%,载秘图像的峰值信噪比（PSNR）值由55.388 2提高为56.996 9,提高了1.608 7,采用其他图像并就不同嵌入量进行实验,各图像PSNR值均表现出不同程度的提高。其次,将图像分别划分为2×2、4×4、8×8、16×16个分区,当嵌入量为1×10⁴ bit时,Lena图像PSNR由原始PVO的59.204 6逐渐增加至60.846 9,其他图像在不同嵌入量时PSNR均随着分区数的增加而有不同程度的提高。结论 本文提出的基于图像分区选择的改进PVO算法,可根据像素分布情况增加对嵌入空间的利用,在相同嵌入量情况下,改进后的算法能够获得更高的PSNR值;在一定分区数量条件范围内,分区数量与图像PSNR值表现出正相关性,随着分区数量的增加,图像PSNR值随之增加;本文方法在一定程度上改善了嵌入容量,弥补了因分区数量增加带来的辅助信息增加的问题。     

Weighted matrix based reversible watermarking scheme using color image

High capacity, secure, reversible watermarking scheme using a color image for image authentication and tampered detection is still an important area of research. In this investigation, we have proposed a weighted matrix based reversible watermarking scheme using the color image which provides image authentication and tampered detection. Here, we decomposed the original image into R, G, B color components and partitioned into (3 × 3) pixel blocks then we performed the sum of entry-wise-multiplication operations using a modified weighted matrix to embed the watermark. The watermark embedding locations are stored within an index file to enhance security, increase data hiding capacity, gain good visual quality, achieve reversibility and confirm authenticity. The proposed watermarking scheme not only perform authentication and tampered detection but also improved both data embedding capacity up to 8.00 (bpp) as well as increase visual quality measured by PSNR, 50.03 (dB). Finally, the scheme is compared with other existing state-of-the-art methods and gives a reasonably better performance in terms of visual quality and hiding capacity. Our scheme has been evaluated through various steganographic analysis and observed that the scheme is secure and robust against various attacks.