A reversible steganographic scheme for VQ indices based on locally adaptive coding

Achieving a high embedding capacity and low compression rate with a reversible data hiding method in the vector quantization (VQ) compressed domain is a technically challenging problem. This paper proposes a novel reversible steganographic scheme for VQ compressed images based on a locally adaptive data compression method. The proposed method embeds n secret bits into one VQ index of an index table in Hilbert-curve scan order. The experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve the different average embedding rates of 0.99, 1.68, 2.28, and 3.04 bit per index (bpi) and average compression rates of 0.45, 0.46, 0.5, and 0.56 bit per pixel (bpp) for n = 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. These results indicate that the proposed scheme is superior to Chang et al.’s scheme 1 [19], Yang and Lin’s scheme [21], and Chang et al.’s scheme 2 [24].     

Reversible data hiding of a VQ index table based on referred counts

This paper presents a new reversible VQ-based hiding scheme that can recover the original VQ compressed codes after data extraction. Our scheme sorts a VQ codebook using the referred counts. The VQ codebook is then divided into 2^B clusters and half of these clusters are used to embed secret data, in which B denotes the size of the secret data embedded into each VQ index. Compared to Chang et al.’s scheme, which divides a sorted VQ codebook into 2^B?1 × 3 clusters and uses the front one-third clusters to embed secret data, our method can embed more data. Moreover, indicator, index exchanging, and side-match prediction schemes are proposed to further improve our scheme. Under the same sorted VQ codebook, the experimental results demonstrate that our data hiding algorithm has higher capacities and better compression rates.     

A reversible data hiding scheme for VQ indices using locally adaptive coding

Data hiding is designed to solve the problem of secure information exchange through public networks such as Internet. In this paper, we present an improved reversible data hiding scheme that can recover original VQ indices after data extraction. As with Chang et al.’s scheme, our proposed scheme also depends on the locally adaptive coding scheme. However, experimental results confirm that the hiding capacity of our proposed scheme is around 1.36 bpi in most digital images, which is typically higher than that of Chang et al.’s [17]. Moreover, the average compression rate that can be achieved with our proposed scheme is 0.49 bpp, which outperforms both Lin and Chang’s scheme (0.50 bpp), Tsai (0.50 bpp), Chang et al.’s scheme (0.53 bpp), and Yang and Lin’s scheme (0.53 bpp).     

Lossless Data Hiding Scheme Based on VQ Index Coding

Lossless data hiding can restore the original status of cover media after embedded secret data are extracted. In 2010, Wang et al. proposed a lossless data hiding scheme which hides secret data in vector quantization (VQ) indices, but the encoding strategies adopted by their scheme expand the final codestream. This paper designs four embedding and encoding strategies to improve Wang et al.'s scheme. The experiment result of the proposed scheme compared with that of the Wang et al.'s scheme reduces the bit rates of the final codestream by 4.6% and raises the payload by 1.09% on average.     

改进的基于快速相关矢量量化的高效信息隐藏方法

为了改善信息隐藏后的图像质量,减少失真,并提高嵌入信息的容量,本文提出了一种新的改进的基于快速相关矢量量化（MFCVQ,modified fast correlation VQ）的信息隐藏方法。由于图像本身的相关性,快速相关矢量量化利用了当前索引的相邻矢量进行替代编码,计算编码时使用的相邻矢量所产生的失真与事先设定的门限做比较,当失真小于门限时可以进行替代编码,一步完成了编码和嵌入信息;当失真大于门限时不能进行替代编码,从而控制了当前索引的嵌入和最后生成图像的视觉质量。同时,增加了相邻矢量的数目,提高了嵌入信息的容量。实验结果表明改进后的算法能够显著改善图像失真,在门限为18时对不同复杂程度的图像其PSNR分别提高了0.018dB-2.125dB,并且有效地提高了嵌入容量,进而大幅度的提高了嵌入效率。改进算法的嵌入效率达到了Yang算法的1.967-4.683倍。      

High capacity multi-bit data hiding based on modified histogram shifting technique

A novel data hiding technique based on modified histogram shifting that incorporates multi-bit secret data hiding is proposed. The proposed technique divides the image pixel values into embeddable and nonembeddable pixel values. Embeddable pixel values are those that are within a specified limit interval surrounding the peak value of an image. The limit interval is calculated from the number of secret bits to be embedded into each embeddable pixel value. The embedded secret bits can be perfectly extracted from the stego image at the receiver side without any overhead bits. From the simulation, it is found that the proposed technique produces a better quality stego image compared to other data hiding techniques, for the same embedding rate. Since the proposed technique only embeds the secret bits in a limited number of pixel values, the change in the visual quality of the stego image is negligible when compared to other data hiding techniques.     

An 8 bit, 100 kS/s,switch-capacitor DAC SAR ADC for RFID applications

An 8 bit switch-capacitor DAC successive approximation analog to digital converter (SAR-ADC) for sensor-RFID application is presented in this paper. To achieve minimum chip area, maximum simplicity is imposed on capacitive DAC; replacing capacitor bank with only a one switch-capacitor circuit. The regulated dynamic current mirror (RDCM) design is introduced to provide stabilized current. This invariable current from RDCM, charging or discharging the only capacitor in circuit is controlled by pulse width modulated signal to realize switch capacitor DAC. The switch control scheme is built using basic AND gates to generate the control signals for RDCM. Only one capacitor and reduced transistor count in digital part reduces the silicon area occupied by the ADC to only 0.0098 mm². The converter, designed in GPDK 90 nm CMOS, exhibits maximum sampling frequency of 100 kHz & consumes 6.75 µW at 1 V supply. Calculated signal to noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) at 1 V supply and 100 kS/s is 48.68 dB which relates to ENOB of 7.79 bits. The peak values of differential and integral nonlinearity are found to be +0.70/−0.89 LSB and +1.40/−0.10 LSB respectively. Evaluated figure of merit (FOM) is 3.87×10²⁰, which show that the proposed ADC acquires minimal silicon area and has sufficiently low power consumption compared to its counterparts in RFID applications.     

A 1.8 V 3 GS/s 7-bit time-interleaved Quasi C-2C SAR ADC using voltage-comparator time-information

This paper presents a 7-bit 15 × interleaved SAR ADC that operates up to 3 GS/s, using 180 nm CMOS technology. The ADC utilizes the transient information of a dynamic SAR voltage-comparator to resolve 2 bits per clock cycle, using a time-comparator block. Thus, only 5 clock cycles are needed to resolve 7 bits. This results in speed improvement of about 60%, compared to conventional ADC. Also, an improved Quasi C-2 C DAC structure with reduced internal node swing and reduced switching activity are utilized, which decreases the power consumption of DAC up to 65%. We employ the above techniques in designing a 7-bit SAR ADC, in which 3 bits are resolved with time-comparator blocks and 4 bits are resolved with a voltage-comparator. To calibrate the proposed time-comparator block, a calibration process is proposed. ADS simulation of the ADC illustrates an ENOB (Effective Number of Bits) > 6.5-bit and SFDR (Spur Free Dynamic Range) = −52.8 dBc for a single SAR converter with sampling at 200 MS/s. For the time-interleaved SAR ADC with 15 single SAR converters, ENOB is 6.15-bit and SFDR = −45 dBc with sampling at 3 GS/s up to Nyquist frequency. This ADC consumes 150 mW at 1.8 V supply and achieves a Figure-of-Merit (FoM) of 700 fJ/conv-step.     

融合CFT和LSB的高容量可逆数据隐藏

针对可逆数据隐藏中图像质量和嵌入容量之间相互矛盾的问题,提出一种中心折叠技术与最低有效位替换相结合的可逆数据隐藏方法。该方法首先对原始图像中的像素进行位平面划分,以得到2个位平面;然后利用中心折叠技术将秘密数据折叠,并将折叠后的秘密数据嵌入到原始像素的最高有效位中,以生成2个隐秘像素;最后利用最低有效位替换将秘密数据嵌入到隐秘像素的最低有效位中,以进一步提高嵌入容量。实验结果表明,利用中心折叠技术与最低有效位替换来嵌入秘密数据,嵌入容量达到了1 572 778位,有效地提高了嵌入容量;当嵌入容量相同时,与嵌入秘密数据后的相关算法相比,图像的PSNR提高了约2dB,降低了图像失真,具有更好的不可感知性。     

一种新的数据隐藏方法

本文提出一种新的数据隐藏方法,对于给定长为n比特的可修改宿主数据流,至多修改1比特宿主数据,可嵌入log₂(n+1)比特的数据.嵌入/提取矩阵 H ,还可作为密钥,使得嵌入数据具有较好的安全性.该方法已在微机上进行了模拟,获得了预期的结果.     

Reversible data hiding based on prediction-error histogram shifting and EMD mechanism

This paper proposes a reversible data hiding scheme for gray-level images. The scheme exploits the similarity among adjacent pixels and uses the side-match predictors to obtain prediction-error histogram. Then secret bits are embedded by using histogram shifting method. To achieve high capacity, nonary Exploiting Modification Direction (EMD) algorithm and multi-layer embedding mechanism are used when embedding the secret bits. Additionally, we improve the method of preventing overflow and underflow problems which enhances the compression ability of location map. In the extraction process, we use the same predictors to generate the error histogram, then we can extract the secret bits and recover the original cover image. Experimental results show that our algorithm can achieve better performance compared with the previous related algorithms.     

一种基于预测模式差值的HEVC信息隐藏算法

针对当前HEVC视频信息隐藏算法对视频码率和质 量影响较大等问题,结合HEVC编码标准中 帧内预测模式的特点,提出一种基于帧内预测模式差值的HEVC视频信息隐藏算法。对于连续 两个帧内4×4亮度块预测编码过程中具有方向性的33种预测模式,建立隐秘信息与 预测模式差值的映射关系,根据拉格 朗日率失真模型调制预测模式完成隐秘信息的嵌入。为了保证隐秘信息的嵌入容量,对于连 续两个无方向 性的planar模式或DC模式,根据隐秘信息修改其值实现隐秘信息的嵌入。信息的提取过程, 只需对码流中 的预测模式解码即可。实验结果表明,隐秘信息的嵌入对视频序列的影响较小,亮度分量的 峰值信噪比 (PSNR)值平均下降约0.05dB,对码率 影响仅在1.1%以下,隐秘信息嵌入前后的结构相似度(SSIM)值均 在0.94以上。因此,本文算法能很好保证视频的主客观质量。     

Secure Image Hiding Scheme Based on Magic Signet

Image data hiding technology is secret communications that carry hidden data in such a way that no one except the sender and intended recipients can even realize there is a hidden message. High embedding capacity, good images quality, and security are three important essentials. In this paper, each confidential hexadecimal will be carried by two cover pixels based on a magic matrix generated from a square template to reach the goal of higher embedding capacity while keeping good image visualization. Experimental results reveal that the proposed scheme guarantees higher embedding capacity of 2 bits per pixel and has the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of 44.7 dB on average. Moreover, secret keys are used to ensure security consideration.     

An efficient high-capacity reversible data hiding scheme for encrypted images

Reversible data hiding in encrypted images is an effective technique to embed information in encrypted domain, without knowing the original content of the image or the encryption key. In this paper, a high-capacity reversible data hiding scheme for encrypted images based on MSB (most significant bit) prediction is proposed. Since the prediction is not always accurate, it is necessary to identify the prediction error and store this information in the location map. The stream cipher is then used to encrypt the original image directly. During the data hiding phase, up to three MSBs of each available pixel in the encrypted image are substituted by the bits of the secret message. At the receiving end, the embedded data can be extracted without any errors and the original image can be perfectly reconstructed by utilizing MSB prediction. Experimental results show that the scheme can achieve higher embedding capacity than most related methods.     

多光谱图像变换域统计量移位鲁棒无损信息隐藏

为了提高鲁棒无损信息隐藏算法容量,利用多光谱图像谱段间的相关性及其小波变换高频系数分块均值的稳定性,提出一种变换域统计量移位的鲁棒无损信息隐藏算法。首先,在光谱方向采用Karhunen Loêve变换(KLT)去相关,然后对得到的KLT本征子图像进行离散小波变换,将小波HH高频系数分块均值作为统计量,通过其直方图移位来隐藏秘密信息,最后将浮点数变换和像素溢出引起的误差嵌入含密图像中以便对恢复的载体图像进行误差补偿。实验结果表明：在图像质量和以往算法相当的情况下,该算法的隐藏容量增加了1倍,并且能抵抗噪声攻击;而与最新算法相比,在隐藏容量相同时,该算法抗JPEG2000压缩倍数平均提高23.9%,误码率平均降低了44.8%。     

基于分块最佳预测的可逆数据隐藏

为了提高嵌入算法的性 能,提出一种基于分块最佳预测和直方图平移的灰度图像可逆数据隐藏算法。根据嵌 入阈值,统计 每一图像块中4种预测方案的嵌入容量,选择最大容量对应的预测方案作为该图像块的最佳 预测方案。嵌 入算法充分利用像素值局部相关性,自适应地选择最佳预测方案,有效提高嵌入容量。实验 结果表明,本 文算法在保证图像质量的同时有效提高嵌入容量,算法的整体性能比其它同类算法更优。     

Design of unpunctured turbo trellis-coded modulation

In this paper, the design of newly introduced turbo encoding scheme called ‘Unpunctured Turbo Trellis-Coded Modulation’ (UTTCM) is exposed. The performance improvement of this encoding scheme is obtained by setting a design criterion for each of its components namely: the search rules of best constituent encoders’ generator polynomials, the constellation and the associated mapping. Simulation results show that the optimized UTTCM outperforms TTCM and PCTCM for all considered spectral efficiencies, and presents competitive error floors. As examples, for a spectral efficiency of 3 bits/symbol (bps), UTTCM with 8 decoding iterations outperforms TTCM by 0.05 dB at BER = 10^?4; and for a spectral efficiency of 4 bps and 6 decoding iterations, UTTCM outperforms Fragouli's PCTCM by 0.07 dB at BER = 10^?5.     

A novel legitimacy preserving data hiding scheme based on LAS compressed code of VQ index tables

Data hiding is a technique for secret and secure data storing and transmission that embeds data into a media such as an image, audio, video and so on, with minimal quality degradation of the media. Some developed data hiding schemes are reversible. Reversibility property allows the media to be recovered completely after extraction of the embedded data. Vector Quantization (VQ)-based image data hiding is one of the most popular study areas in the literature. However, most VQ-based reversible data hiding schemes generate non-legitimate codes as output. In other words output codes generated by such schemes could not be decoded by the conventional VQ or VQ based decoders and may arouse the attention of interceptors. On the other hand, the existing VQ based reversible data hiding schemes that generate legitimate VQ codes as output, suffer from low capacity and poor quality of stego-image. In this paper a novel reversible data hiding scheme for VQ-compressed images based on locally adaptive data compression scheme (LAS) is proposed. Unlike other schemes, the proposed scheme doesn’t change the VQ indices; data is embedded by choosing one of the possible ways to encode each index. As a result, in comparison with the schemes that embed data by index replacement, in the proposed scheme no extra distortion is made by data embedding and the outputted codes are compatible with the conventional LAS decoder. These properties help to hide the existence of secret data and make the scheme suitable for steganography. Moreover, a framework to combine the proposed scheme with some other schemes to improve their capacity and embedding side information is proposed. Since LAS is a general data compression scheme, the proposed scheme could be used to embed data into any data formats. All existing LAS based data hiding schemes produce non-legitimate codes as their outputs and the proposed scheme is the first and only one that produces legitimate codes as output. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing LAS based schemes and some other VQ based data hiding schemes. On average, the proposed scheme embeds 2.14 bits per index with almost the same bit-rate as the bit-rate of the VQ index table.     

Two-layered structure for optimally essential secret image sharing scheme

This paper presents a two-layered structure for optimally sharing a secret image among s essential and n − s non-essential shared shadows using the (t, s, k, n) essential thresholds, that t essential shared shadows and totally k shared shadows are needed to recover the secret image. The presented two-layered structure includes one user-defined parameter m to determine different kinds of optimal results. m = 1 leads to minimum size of total shared shadows (ST) and size of an essential shared shadow is close to size of a non-essential shared shadow. On the other hand, m = t leads to size of an essential shared shadow being twice of size of a non-essential shared shadow to signify the importance of an essential shared shadow. Moreover, the proposed structure overcomes the threshold fulfillment problem in Chen’s scheme (Chen, 2016). Theoretical analyses and experimental results show that the proposed scheme exhibits secure with optimal sharing ratios among related works.     

Adaptive reversible data hiding scheme based on integer transform

In this paper, we present a new reversible data hiding algorithm based on integer transform and adaptive embedding. According to the image block type determined by the pre-estimated distortion, the parameter in integer transform is adaptively selected in different blocks. This allows embedding more data bits into smooth blocks while avoiding large distortion generated by noisy ones, and thus enables very high capacity with good image quality. For instance, by the proposed method, we can embed as high as 2.17 bits per pixel into Lena image with a reasonable PSNR of 20.71 dB. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms some state-of-the-art algorithms, especially for high capacity case.