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。     

利用像素置换的自适应可逆信息隐藏

目的 像素置换作为一种可逆信息隐藏方式具有良好的抗灰度直方图隐写分析能力,但嵌入容量偏小一直是其缺陷。针对这一问题,提出了一种基于像素置换的自适应可逆信息隐藏算法。方法 首先,与传统2×2像素块结构相比构造了尺寸更小的像素对结构,使得载体图像可以被更稠密地分割,为嵌入容量的提升提供了基数条件。其次,提出适用于该新像素结构的可嵌像素对（EPP）筛选条件,避免嵌入过程引起图像质量大幅下降。之后,根据EPP的灰度趋势差异对其进行自适应预编码,提高Huffman编码压缩比,进一步提升算法嵌入容量。最终,通过像素置换嵌入信息。结果 与2×2像素块结构的非自适应图像隐写算法相比,在同样保证灰度直方图稳定性的情况下该算法的PSNR提高了32%左右,嵌入容量提高了95%以上。其中自适应性对嵌入容量提升的贡献极大。结论 本文算法同时具有抗灰度直方图隐写分析能力与高嵌入容量性的可逆信息隐藏。算法构造了更高效的可嵌单位,并且针对不同载体图像的特点对其可嵌区域进行差异化编码。实验结果表明,本文算法在具有更好的不可见性的同时,嵌入容量得到大幅提升。     

A novel steganalysis for TPVD steganographic method based on differences of pixel difference histogram

Tri-way Pixel Value Differencing (TPVD) steganographic method is a new modified version of another well-known method called PVD, which intents to increase embedding capacity and security of its successor by hiding secret bits in both vertical and diagonal edges of a cover image, in addition to the horizontal edges used in PVD. In this paper, it is shown that the histogram of difference values of a stego image under the TPVD algorithms is vulnerable to a particular statistical analysis. So, a new steganalytic measure named Growing Anomalies is introduced that its value has a linear relationship with secret message rate. It is shown empirically and theoretically that proposed steganalysis method based on this measure can estimate the amount of secret bits with a negligible error rate. The proposed steganalyser can classify test images as stego or cover with 97% accuracy when they contain more that 10% secret data. Implementation results indicate that proposed method can estimate secret message rate with an average accuracy of 95%.     

基于块参照像素的无损信息隐藏算法

提出一种具有高嵌入容量的图像无损信息隐藏算法。首先将载体图像分成互不重叠的子块,然后在每块中选定一个参照像素,并计算参照像素与块内其它像素的差。在像素差直方图移位产生冗余空间之后,机密信息就可以无损地嵌入到这些冗余空间中。该方法在机密信息提取后可完全恢复载体图像,而且提取机密信息和恢复载体图像不需要除机密信息长度之外的任何信息。实验结果表明了该算法的有效性。     

Image interpolating based data hiding in conjunction with pixel-shifting of histogram

Information hiding is an important research issue in digital life. In this paper, we propose a two-stage data hiding method with high capacity and good visual quality based on image interpolation and histogram modification techniques. At the first stage, we first generate a high-quality cover image using the developed enhanced neighbor mean interpolation and then take the difference values from input and cover pixels as a carrier to embed secret data. In this stage, our proposed scheme raises the image quality a lot due to the ENMI method. At the second stage, a histogram modification method is applied on the difference image to further increase the embedding capacity and preserve the image quality without distortion. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method have better PSNR value of stego-image with improving 43 % on the average when compared the past key-studies.     

基于DWT与DCT的灰度水印图像嵌入算法

图像中嵌入的多为二值水印,容量有限且抗攻击能力有待提高。为了增加嵌入水印的容量以及增强算法的鲁棒性,提出基于DWT与DCT的灰度水印图像嵌入算法。首先对灰度水印进行Arnold置乱预处理,其次对所选取的载体图像进行二级小波变换,选择第二层的逼近子带LL2与细节子带LH2、HL2、HH2依次嵌入灰度水印的高四位位平面。嵌入水印时对4个子带分别进行8×8分块DCT变换,然后采用一种改进的交换中频系数的方法将置乱后水印的高四位位平面分别嵌入所选取的4个子带,为增强算法的鲁棒性,在不同的子带由实验选择不同的水印嵌入因子。仿真实验表明,本算法抵抗图像裁剪、图像加噪、直方图均衡化、常用滤波处理、JPEG压缩等攻击的效果较好。     

A novel adaptive steganography based on local complexity and human vision sensitivity

This paper presents a novel adaptive steganographic scheme that is capable of both preventing visual degradation and providing a large embedding capacity. The embedding capacity of each pixel is dynamically determined by the local complexity of the cover image, allowing us to maintain good visual quality as well as embedding a large amount of secret messages. We classify pixels into three levels based on the variance of the local complexity of the cover image. When determining which level of local complexity a pixel should belong to, we take human vision sensitivity into consideration. This ensures that the visual artifacts appeared in the stego image are imperceptible, and the difference between the original and stego image is indistinguishable by the human visual system. The pixel classification assures that the embedding capacity offered by a cover image is bounded by the embedding capacity imposed on three levels that are distinguished by two boundary thresholds values. This allows us to derive a combination ratio of the maximal embedding capacity encountered with at each level. Consequently, our scheme is capable of determining two threshold values according to the desired demand of the embedding capacity requested by the user. Experimental results demonstrated that our adaptive steganographic algorithm produces insignificant visual distortion due to the hidden message. It provides high embedding capacity superior to that offered by a number of existing schemes. Our algorithm can resist the RS steganalysis attack, and it is statistically invisible for the attack of histogram comparison. The proposed scheme is simple, efficient and feasible for adaptive steganographic applications.     

基于中值预测的四轮嵌入可逆信息隐藏算法

传统基于预测误差直方图平移的可逆信息隐藏算法大多通过固定顺序来扫描原始图像,从而进行数据嵌入,这种方式没有考虑图像本身的纹理信息,导致无效移位像素点较多,伪装图像视觉质量较差。为解决该问题,提出一种基于中值预测的四轮嵌入可逆信息隐藏算法,以在提高嵌入容量的同时降低伪装图像的失真率。利用相邻像素之间具有较强相关性的特点,在较小的误差值处聚集大量像素点,以得到更陡峭的预测误差直方图并提高嵌入容量。对每个像素点定义复杂度,根据复杂度的高低对预测误差进行排序,优先在图像平滑区域嵌入数据,从而有效减少无效移位像素点个数,降低伪装图像的失真率。实验结果表明,该算法的最大嵌入率可以达到0.3 bpp,在0.1 bpp的嵌入率下峰值信噪比高达55.15 dB,与非对称直方图算法、误差直方图移位算法等相比,其具有较高的嵌入容量和较小的视觉失真率。     

对一种抗统计分析的LSB隐写方案的攻击

针对张新鹏等人提出的抗统计分析的LSB隐写方案对图像差分直方图的影响，本文提出了一种基于差分直方图分析的隐写分析方案．该方案使用隐写前后图像差分直方图转移矩阵结合对差分直方图广义拉普拉斯分布的拟合偏差实现对嵌入数据长度的估计．实验证明该算法具有较好的估计精度．     

Exploring pixel-value differencing and base decomposition for low distortion data embedding

This paper presents a low distortion data embedding method using pixel-value differencing and base decomposition schemes. The pixel-value differencing scheme offers the advantage of conveying a large amount of payload, while still maintaining the consistency of an image characteristic after data embedding. We introduce the base decomposition scheme, which defines a base pair for each degree in order to construct a two-base notational system. This scheme provides the advantage of significantly reducing pixel variation encountered due to secret data embedding. We analyze the pixel variation and the expected mean square error caused by concealing with secret messages. The mathematical analysis shows that our scheme produces much smaller maximal pixel variations and expected mean square error while producing a higher PSNR. We evaluate the performance of our method using 6 categories of metrics which allow us to compare with seven other state-of-the-art algorithms. Experimental statistics verify that our algorithm outperforms existing counterparts in terms of lower image distortion and higher image quality. Finally, our scheme can survive from the RS steganalysis attack and the steganalytic histogram attack of pixel-value difference. We conclude that our proposed method is capable of embedding large amounts of a message, yet still produces the embedded image with very low distortion. To the best of our knowledge, in comparison with the current seven state-of-the-art data embedding algorithms, our scheme produces the lowest image distortion while embedding the same or slightly larger quantities of messages.     

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.     

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。     

A high capacity multi-image steganography technique based on golden ratio and non-subsampled contourlet transform

Hiding sensitive information in a host image (or 2D signal) is a challenging task. Several image steganography techniques have been proposed in recent years, which either have low embedding capacity, or the embedded images are vulnerable. The proposed technique, which is based on Golden Ratio and Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform (GRNSCT) model provides both high embedding capacity as well as the confidentiality of the embedded images. The high embedding capacity is achieved via a combination of mosaic process and two level NSCT (Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform), while confidentiality is attained via double layer encryption based on shuffling method of a deck of cards. Several types of security evaluation metrics, such as, key sensitivity, histogram, and information entropy, are utilized to assess the robustness of the embedded images. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed multi-image steganography technique achieves 24 bpp (bits per pixel) embedding capacity, or 300% payload with PSNR up to 42.38 dB (decibels), which is better than the existing techniques.

     

Separable reversible data hiding in encrypted images based on scalable blocks

This paper proposes a new separable reversible data hiding method for encrypted images. Proposed scheme employs the pixel redundancy of natural images to construct embedding space. First, cover image is divided into multiple blocks with different scales. According to the pixel average value of each block, the lowest two bits of every pixel are vacated as reserved rooms. Subsequently, the whole image is encrypted by using stream cipher and the secret messages are finally embedded into the reserved rooms by the embedding key. Proposed scheme is separable in the sense that the recipient can achieve different function by the following ways: (a) If the recipient has only decryption key, an approximation plaintext image containing the embedded information can be obtained. (b) If the recipient has only embedded key, secret messages can be extracted correctly. (c) If the recipient has both decryption key and embedded key, he can not only extract the secret messages, but recover the original cover image perfectly. Extensive experiments are performed to show that our proposed schemes outperform existing reversible data hiding schemes in terms of visual quality, embedding capacity and security performance, even if a large-scale image database is used.

     

Adaptive reversible watermarking with improved embedding capacity

Embedding capacity is one of the most important issues of the reversible watermarking. However, the theoretical maximum embedding capacity of most reversible watermarking algorithms is only 1.0 bits per pixel (bpp). To achieve a higher capacity, we have to modify the least significant bit (LSB) multiple times which definitely lowers the quality of the embedded image. To this end, this paper proposes a novel reversible watermarking algorithm by employing histogram shifting and adaptive embedding. Specifically, the amount of the embedded watermark is adaptively determined in terms of the context of each pixel. For pixels with small prediction error, we modify the second, third and even the fourth LSBs as well to embed more than one watermark bit. Consequently, the proposed method achieves the embedding capacity larger than 1.0 bpp in single-pass embedding as well as bringing relatively low embedding distortion. The superiority of the proposed method is experimental verified by comparing with other existing schemes.     

基于直方图对的大容量信息隐藏算法

针对传统的LSB算法对直方图影响明显的缺点, 通过对LSB嵌入过程中直方图变化和马尔可夫安全模型的研究, 提出一种基于直方图对的LSB改进算法。该算法以DCT量化后相邻灰度值像素对为对象进行成对LSB嵌入, 同时对超过最大嵌入容量的剩余系数进行基于马尔可夫安全性模型的嵌入。实验结果表明, 该算法在具有较大嵌入容量的同时, 有效地保持了直方图特性, 提高了算法的抗统计分析性能。     

基于时空相关性的视频隐写分析

视频中的扩频嵌入是一种典型的隐写方法,能够抵抗视频压缩、噪声添加等多种攻击。为了有效检测利用该方法嵌入的隐藏信息,将隐写过程建模为加性高斯噪声的叠加过程,分析了噪声叠加对视频序列的时间相关性和空间相关性的影响,提出了基于时空相关性的隐写分析算法。该算法利用视频序列中各帧的四方向差分直方图度量隐写对空间相关性的影响,同时利用相邻帧帧间差分的直方图度量隐写对时间相关性的影响。与现有算法相比,本文算法实现简单,实验结果表明本文算法具有更好的检测性能。     

Embedding of any type of data in images based on a human visual model and multiple-based number conversion

A novel approach to embedding any type of digital data into a cover image is proposed, which utilizes a human visual model to guarantee that the modification of the cover image is imperceptible. A quantized contrast function based on the model is constructed first. The gray values of each 3×3 sub-image of the cover image are used to compute, using the function, a range of gray levels with the same contrast as that of the central pixel of the sub-image. The embedding process proceeds by replacing the gray value of the central pixel by one of the values in the range. This guarantees that the changes be imperceptible. The data to be embedded is treated as a binary stream and is partitioned into a number of sub-streams. A multiple-base number conversion mechanism is used to convert each sub-stream of data into values which are then embedded in the central pixels of sub-images. The embedded data can be extracted out from the resulting stego-image without referencing the original image. Experimental results show that the proposed method is feasible.     

基于注意力机制的高容量通用图像隐写模型

随着深度学习与隐写技术的发展,深度神经网络在图像隐写领域的应用越发广泛,尤其是图像嵌入图像这一新兴的研究方向.主流的基于深度神经网络的图像嵌入图像隐写方法需要将载体图像和秘密图像一起输入隐写模型生成含密图像,而最近的研究表明,隐写模型仅需要秘密图像作为输入,然后将模型输出的含密扰动添加到载体图像上,即可完成秘密图像的嵌入过程.这种不依赖载体图像的嵌入方式极大地扩展了隐写的应用场景,实现了隐写的通用性.但这种嵌入方式目前仅验证了秘密图像嵌入和恢复的可行性,而对隐写更重要的评价标准,即隐蔽性,未进行考虑和验证.提出一种基于注意力机制的高容量通用图像隐写模型USGAN,利用注意力模块, USGAN的编码器可以在通道维度上对秘密图像中像素位置的扰动强度分布进行调整,从而减小含密扰动对载体图像的影响.此外,利用基于CNN的隐写分析模型作为USGAN的目标模型,通过与目标模型进行对抗训练促使编码器学习生成含密对抗扰动,从而使含密图像同时成为攻击隐写分析模型的对抗样本.实验结果表明,所提模型不仅可以实现不依赖载体图像的通用嵌入方式,还进一步提高了隐写的隐蔽性.     

图像隐藏信息与图像噪声分辨研究

针对图像经过信息隐藏与经过噪声干扰具有不同的特性,从图像隐藏信息和加噪的数学原理入手,引入图像直方图和差分直方图的模型,在图像小波分解高频系数差分直方图的数学模型基础上,利用高频系数差分数值的方差对图像是否隐藏信息或被噪声干扰进行分辨,给出了具体的计算判断方法。最后,在标准图像集上进行实验。结果表明,即使在图像直观统计参数基本相同的情况下,该方法也能明显分辨出两种不同的干扰现象,取得良好结果。