彩色图像信息密写新方法

为实现彩色图像中的安全隐写,首先通过混沌映射算法将图像去相关处理,再经过离散正弦变换, 提出以彩色图像为载体的安全隐写方法,应用二值图像信息嵌入技术,将隐蔽信息隐藏在颜色分量的较高层位面中,可实现优良的隐蔽性和较大的嵌入量。所使用的二值图像数据隐藏方案包括一组完备的规则,能够准确判断边缘像素是否可承载嵌入数据,保证嵌入数据的无差错盲提取,并可引入密钥以增强安全性。实验表明,在彩色图像中数据嵌入量达到每像素1.5 b时视觉不可察觉,峰值信噪比保持在40 dB以上,直方图无异常,并能抵御多种有效的隐写分析算法,兼顾了隐蔽信息容量和安全性。同时,解决了含密图像进行压缩或作任何有损的格式变换、数据嵌入、信息提取、抵御隐写分析算法难题。     

A new steganographic method for color and grayscale image hiding

In this paper, we present a steganographic method for embedding a color or a grayscale image in a true color image. Three types of secret images can be carried by the proposed method: hiding a color secret image, hiding a palette-based 256-color secret image, and hiding a grayscale image in a true color image. Secret data are protected by the conventional crypto system DES. We compare the image quality and hiding capacity of the proposed method with those of the scheme in Lin et al.’s scheme. According to the experimental results, the image quality of the proposed method is better than that of the Lin et al.’s scheme. In addition, annotation data can be hidden with the secret image in the host image. The hiding capacity of the proposed method is greater than that of other compared schemes. The experimental results show that the proposed method is a secure steganographic method that provides high hiding capacity and good image quality.     

一种基于LSB和PVD的图像信息隐藏方法研究

为了提高图像中秘密信息的嵌入量,提出并实现了一种基于最低有效位和像素值差异的图像信息隐藏方法。通过计算两个连续像素值的差异来判断图像的一致区域和边界区域,在一致区域使用最低有效位方法,而在边界区域使用像素值差异方法。实验结果表明,结合这两种方法后信息的嵌入量是单纯使用像素值差异方法的1.59～1.97倍,并且隐写图像具有大于38 dB的峰值信噪比,保证了隐写图像的视觉质量。     

A steganographic method based upon JPEG and particle swarm optimization algorithm

In this paper, a novel steganographic method, based on JPEG and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO), is proposed. In order to improve the quality of stego-images, an optimal substitution matrix for transforming the secret messages is first derived by means of the PSO algorithm. The standard JPEG quantization table is also modified to contain more secret messages. The transformed messages are then hidden in the DC-to-middle frequency components of the quantized DCT coefficients of the cover-image. Finally, a JPEG file with secret messages is generated through JPEG entropy coding. We compare our algorithm with Chang et al.’s JPEG-based steganographic algorithm. The experimental results show that our proposed method has larger message capacity and better image quality than Chang et al.’s. In addition, our method also has a high security level.     

Secure medical images based on data hiding using a hybrid scheme with the Hamming code,LSB, and OPAP

Some medical accidents in hospitals are related to mismanagement of medical images X-ray and computer tomography (CT). A counterfeit medical image leads to medical accidents. Thus, security of medical images is important for patient safety. Data hiding can help patients avoid mistakes of doctors or nurses who confuse patient X-rays or CT scans. A hybrid data hiding scheme was applied that combined the Hamming code and LSB with an optimal pixel adjustment process algorithm for encoding to conceal hidden patient information. In addition, quality and capacity of stego-images were improved. Experimental results confirmed that the hiding capacity provided by this strategy is greater than for other schemes. Moreover, the image quality of stego-images with the proposed scheme remained more than 50 dB for most medical test images. In this experiment, we verified the proposed steganographic data hiding scheme as RS steganalysis.     

全体变长编码映射的JPEG可逆信息隐藏

目的 JPEG(joint photographic experts group)作为一种广泛使用的图像格式,对其进行可逆信息隐藏有实际应用价值。大多数以JPEG图像为载体的可逆信息隐藏方案会导致图像质量降低和文件膨胀。由于在JPEG比特流中,并没有使用较多的变长编码(variable-length code, VLC),因此以未使用的VLC替换已使用的VLC可以实现秘密信息的无损嵌入,但这类方法的嵌入容量有限,且会导致文件膨胀。为了实现更大的嵌入容量并更好地控制文件膨胀,本文提出了新的全体VLC映射方案。方法 首先,重排序原始比特流中的行程长度/幅值大小(run/size value, RSV),获得去除编码冗余的载体;然后,引入中间VLC的概念,根据VLC频数分布,确定使文件膨胀大小相对于嵌入载荷最小的最优中间VLC映射模型;接着,通过计算模拟嵌入下的文件膨胀大小,确定构建最优中间VLC映射所需的嵌入VLC和中间VLC集合;最后,根据最优中间VLC映射关系修改定义哈夫曼表和JPEG比特流实现秘密信息的嵌入。结果 实验在USC-SIPI数据库上与基于DCT(discrete cosi...     

A high stego-image quality steganographic scheme with reversibility and high payload using multiple embedding strategy

Tian’s method is a breakthrough reversible data embedding scheme with high embedding capacity measured by bits per pixel (bpp) and good visual quality measured by peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). However, the embedding capacity and visual quality of this method can be significantly improved. Thus, we propose a simple reversible steganographic scheme in spatial domain for digital images by using the multiple embedding strategy. The proposed method horizontally and vertically embeds one secret bit into one cover pixel pair. The experimental results show that the proposed reversible steganographic method achieves good visual quality and high embedding capacity. Specifically, with the one-layer embedding, the proposed method can obtain the embedding capacity of more than 0.5 bpp and the PSNR value greater than 54 dB for all test images. Especially, with the five-layer embedding, the proposed method has the embedding capacity of more than 2 bpp and the PSNR value higher than 52 dB for all test images. Therefore, the proposed method surpasses many existing reversible data embedding methods in terms of visual quality and embedding capacity.     

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。     

A differential evolution based algorithm for breaking the visual steganalytic system

Image steganography is the process of sending messages secretly by hiding the message in image content. Steganalytic techniques are used to detect whether an image contains a hidden message by analyzing various image features between stego-images (the images containing hidden messages) and cover-images (the images containing no hidden messages). In the past, genetic algorithm (GA) was applied to design a robust steganographic system that breaks the steganalytic systems. However, GA consumes too much time to converge to the optimal solution. In this paper, we use a different evolutionary approach, named differential evolution (DE), to increase the performance of the steganographic system. The key element that DE is distinguished from other population based approaches is differential mutation, which aims to find the global optimum of a multidimensional, multimodal function. Experimental results show that the application of the DE based steganography not only improves the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) of the stego-image, but also promotes the normalized correlation (NC) of the extracted secret message for the same number of iterations. It is observed that the percentage increase in PSNR values ranges from 5% to 13% and that of NC values ranges from 0.8% to 3%.     

A reversible data hiding scheme using complementary embedding strategy

Obtaining good visual quality and high hiding capacity with reversible data hiding systems is a technically challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a simple reversible data hiding scheme that uses a complementary hiding strategy. The proposed method embeds one secret bit horizontally and vertically into one cover pixel of a grayscale cover image by decreasing odd-valued pixels and increasing even-valued pixels by one. Experimental results show that the hiding capacity measured by bit per pixel (bpp) of the proposed scheme is at least 1.21 bpp with a PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio) value greater than 52 dB for all standard test images. Especially in the case of four-layer embedding, the PSNR value of the proposed method is still greater than 51 dB at a hiding capacity of about 5 bpp for all standard test images. In addition, the proposed method is quite simple because it primarily uses additions and subtractions. These results indicate that the proposed scheme is superior to many existing reversible data hiding schemes introduced in the literature.     

具有超分辨率行为伪装效果的可逆图像隐藏

目的 图像隐藏已成为计算机视觉领域的一个重要课题,其目的是以难以察觉的方式将秘密图像隐藏在载体图像中,同时要求接收端能够恢复秘密图像。尽管该技术发展迅速,但目前的图像隐藏技术大多是从内容层面进行伪装,追求载密图像与载体图像的不可区分性。其实,图像隐藏的本质是对行为安全的追求,因此不仅可以在内容层面进行伪装,还可以在行为层面进行伪装。方法 本文从行为安全的角度出发,提出了一种基于超分辨率行为伪装的可逆图像隐藏方法。与传统的图像隐藏技术不同,本文首先将秘密图像可逆地隐藏到载体图像中,生成载密图像,然后通过可逆的超分辨率处理创建与普通超分辨率图像处理操作无法区分的伪装图像。最后,允许接收方从伪装图像中恢复秘密图像和载体图像。结果 在图像隐藏和超分辨率两个任务中,本文方法均取得了优异的结果。在相同的数据集下,测试结果显示恢复秘密图像的峰值信噪比(peak signal-to-noise ratio, PSNR)值达到47+dB,较对比方法提升了2%以上,结构相似度(structure similarity index measure, SSIM)值也达到0.99+,超分辨率图像与Bicubic、SRCNN(super-resolution convolutional neural network)方法的结果相比,峰值信噪比(PSNR)提升了2+dB,感知指数(perceptual index, PI)值降低了2.02+。结论 本文提出的图像隐藏框架利用可逆超分辨率处理操作实现了行为安全角度的图像隐藏,在容量、安全性和精度上都具有优势。     

基于JPEG图像的模块化可逆信息隐藏方法

当前的可逆信息隐藏方法为了寻求更好的嵌入性能,通常会基于给定的图像内容对修改模式和嵌入参数作出自适应的调整。然而,通过细化自适应程度或扩大解空间来寻找更优解时,会造成计算复杂度高、时间成本难以承受等问题。为此,提出了一种适用于JPEG图像的模块化可逆嵌入方法来提高自适应寻优的效率。通过比较不同情况下最优解的嵌入性能,对原有的解空间进行优化、筛选,从而生成一个适用于不同图像的通用修改模式集合。每一个修改模式被定义为在多直方图修改框架下的最优嵌入点集合。在嵌入时,为给定的图像内容自适应地从预设的解集中选定合适的修改模式。实验在USC-SIPI数据集上与五个具有代表性的方法进行了比较。相比于同类算法,所提算法可将峰值信噪比提升0.03～1.81 dB。对于文件大小扩展,所提算法的性能结果可比两个经典方法分别减少12.4%和5.1%。实验结果表明,相比于主流经典方法,该方法在含密图像质量和文件大小扩展方面有更好的性能表现,并能以较低的计算复杂度取得与最近的高效方法相近的自适应嵌入效果。     

Hiding secret data in images via predictive coding

This paper presents a prediction-based image-hiding scheme that embeds secret data into compression codes during image compression. This scheme employs a two-stage structure: a prediction stage and an entropy coding stage. The secret data is embedded into the difference values of a given image after the prediction stage is performed.According to the experimental results, the image quality is better than Jpeg-Jsteg and its improved scheme (Inform. Sci. 141 (1-2) (2002) 123). The average image quality of the stego-images in the proposed scheme is greater than 50 dB when the hiding capacity is 1 bit per pixel, whereas those values in Jpeg-Jsteg and scheme in Chang et al. (Inform. Sci. 141 (1-2) (2002) 123) are 37.04 and 33.73 dB, respectively. The hiding capacity of the proposed scheme is 65,536 bits when the hiding capacity is 1 bit per pixel, whereas it is 53,248 bits in scheme (Inform. Sci. 141 (1-2) (2002) 123) and less than 3000 bits in Jpeg-Jsteg.     

Reversible steganography based on side match and hit pattern for VQ-compressed images

Data hiding is an important technique in multimedia security. Multimedia data hiding techniques enable message senders to disguise secret data by embedding them into cover media. Thus, delivering secret messages is as easy as sending the cover media. Recently, many researchers have studied reversible data hiding for images. Those methods can reconstruct the original cover image and extract the embedded secret data from a stego-image. This study proposes a novel reversible steganographic method of embedding secret data into a vector quantization (VQ) compressed image by applying the concept of side match. The proposed method uses extra information, namely the hit pattern, to achieve reversibility. Moreover, its small hit pattern enables the embedding of the entire hit pattern along with the secret data in most cases. To optimize visual quality of the output stego-image, the method applies the concept of partitioned codebooks (state codebooks). The partition operation on the codebook uses a look-up table to minimize embedding and extraction time. We also propose the use of diagonal seed blocks to embed the entire hit pattern into the cover image without producing any extra control messages. Compared to the Chang and Lin method, the experimental results show that the proposed method has higher capacity, better visual quality, and shorter execution time.     

Hiding data in dual images based on turtle shell matrix with high embedding capacity and reversibility

Reversible data hiding (RDH) is a technology that embeds secret data into a carrier where both the secret data and the carrier can be recovered without any data loss. Inspired by dual images technology, this article proposes to employ a high capacity RDH scheme that is based on turtle shell (TS). We start by constructing a newly designed TS-based reference matrix. Then, two meaningful shadows will be generated after hiding the secret data in the cover image with the reference matrix’s help. Meanwhile, the location conflict problem is solved. On the decoder side, when both shadows are gathered, the data extraction and image recovery can be accomplished using the orientation relationship between two stego pixels that are located at the same coordinates in the two shadows and the reference matrix. Moreover, we introduce a security enhancement technology that improves the security of data extraction. The experiment shows that compared with other state-of-the-art RDH schemes, a higher embedding capacity is achieved by this method, and a good visual quality is retained. Simultaneously, the proposed scheme is effective against attacks on pixel value difference histograms (PDH) and regular singular (RS) analysis.

     

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.

     

基于直方图平移的视频密文域大容量可逆信息隐藏

针对视频密文域可逆信息隐藏（RDH）嵌入容量不高的问题,提出一种基于直方图平移的视频密文域大容量可逆信息隐藏方案。首先,利用流密码算法对4×4亮度帧内预测模式和运动矢量差值（MVD）的符号位进行加密,形成视频密文域;其次,构造MVD的二维直方图,设计关于（0,0）对称的直方图平移算法;最后,在MVD密文域中进行直方图平移,实现可分离的视频密文域可逆信息隐藏。实验结果表明,与对比方案相比,所提方案的嵌入容量平均提升263.3%,加密视频的平均峰值信噪比（PSNR）最高不超过15.956 dB,含密的解密视频的平均PSNR均能达到30 dB以上。所提方案可以有效提升嵌入容量,适用于更多类型的视频序列。     

Reversible hiding in DCT-based compressed images

This paper presents a lossless and reversible steganography scheme for hiding secret data in each block of quantized discrete cosine transformation (DCT) coefficients in JPEG images. In this scheme, the two successive zero coefficients of the medium-frequency components in each block are used to hide the secret data. Furthermore, the scheme modifies the quantization table to maintain the quality of the stego-image. Experimental results also confirm that the proposed scheme can provide expected acceptable image quality of stego-images and successfully achieve reversibility.     

改进的双线性插值算法在信息隐藏中的应用*

针对传统信息隐藏算法隐藏容量小和对图像质量影响较大的缺点,提出了一种新的信息隐藏算法。利用灰度级插值的方法来修改秘密信息嵌入点的像素灰度值,为隐藏秘密信息创造出更大的冗余空间;同时采用新的相邻像素差值计算方法以实现秘密信息的嵌入,使得嵌入大量秘密信息后,载密图像的质量得到很好的保证。实验结果表明,当PSNR＞40 dB时,最低也可以隐藏145 800 bit。与传统的算法相比,隐藏容量有了更大提升的同时,PSNR值也保持在很高的水平。     

Development of a data hiding scheme based on combination theory for lowering the visual noise in binary images

In order to raise the embedding capacity and simultaneously reduce the artifact effect caused by embedding secret messages into binary images, a novel data hiding method based on the combination theory is proposed. In the proposed scheme, a secret position matrix is designed to improve the hiding capacity which is capable of preventing the least distortion based on the combination theory. Our new scheme enables users to conceal more than one bit of secret data by changing at most one pixel in one subimage. We have derived a formula for computing the payload and the possible modification pixels of a block. Compared with the existing schemes in terms of the hiding capacity and the visual artifacts, as our experimental results show, the proposed scheme is capable of providing a better image quality protector even with a more efficient secret data hider.