An adaptive image steganographic scheme based on Noise Visibility Function and an optimal chaotic based encryption method

Steganography is the science of hiding secret message in an appropriate digital multimedia in such a way that the existence of the embedded message should be invisible to anyone apart from the sender or the intended recipient. This paper presents an irreversible scheme for hiding a secret image in the cover image that is able to improve both the visual quality and the security of the stego-image while still providing a large embedding capacity. This is achieved by a hybrid steganography scheme incorporates Noise Visibility Function (NVF) and an optimal chaotic based encryption scheme. In the embedding process, first to reduce the image distortion and to increase the embedding capacity, the payload of each region of the cover image is determined dynamically according to NVF. NVF analyzes the local image properties to identify the complex areas where more secret bits should be embedded. This ensures to maintain a high visual quality of the stego-image as well as a large embedding capacity. Second, the security of the secret image is brought about by an optimal chaotic based encryption scheme to transform the secret image into an encrypted image. Third, the optimal chaotic based encryption scheme is achieved by using a hybrid optimization of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) which is allowing us to find an optimal secret key. The optimal secret key is able to encrypt the secret image so as the rate of changes after embedding process be decreased which results in increasing the quality of the stego-image. In the extracting process, the secret image can be extracted from the stego-image losslessly without referring to the original cover image. The experimental results confirm that the proposed scheme not only has the ability to achieve a good trade-off between the payload and the stego-image quality, but also can resist against the statistics and image processing attacks.     

应用于ROHC的窗基LSB编解码修正算法实现机制

在移动：IPv6中，常常因为数据分组的头标太大而消耗过多的带宽，因而需要使用灵活可靠的鲁棒性头标压缩机制(ROHC)来对分组头标进行压缩。在ROHC中，使用LSB编码方案对分组中那些变化比较小的头标域进行编码。本文将在简要介绍ROHC原理的基础上，深入探讨应用于ROHC的窗基LSB编解码修正算法的实现机制。     

小波域最小嵌入失真函数设计及其在隐写中的应用

为了提高隐写方案的安全性,提出一种基于最小嵌入失真原理和网格码的图像隐写算法。首先在离散小波域结合人眼视觉特性和整数提升小波变换设计了失真测度函数,主要考虑了亮度、频率和纹理掩蔽因子对载体失真的影响。然后结合网格码设计了隐写算法,将嵌入信息对载体的修改最小化并且集中在人眼不敏感区域。实验结果显示,方案具有良好的视觉不可见性,且能抵抗空域、小波域等隐写分析的攻击,安全容量达到0.4 bits/pixel。     

A novel image steganography scheme with high embedding capacity and tunable visual image quality based on a genetic algorithm

Steganography is knowledge and art of hiding secret data into information which is largely used in information security systems. Various methods have been proposed in the literature which most of them are not capable of both preventing visual degradation and providing a large embedding capacity. In this paper, we propose a tunable visual image quality and data lossless method in spatial domain based on a genetic algorithm (GA). The main idea of the proposed technique is modeling the steganography problem as a search and optimization problem. Experimental results, in comparison with other currently popular steganography techniques, demonstrate that the proposed algorithm not only achieves high embedding capacity but also enhances the PSNR of the stego image.     

数字音频水印的有效性和可靠性研究

针对音频水印的LSB算法的可靠性较差的问题,运用纠错编码和随机序列来提高水印系统的可靠性,通过增多水印的嵌入位数来提高水印系统的有效性。实验结果表明,水印系统的可靠性和有效性都得到了明显的改善。     

基于细胞神经网络和并行压缩感知的 图像加密算法

基于细胞神经网络(CNN)和并行压缩感知(CS)提出了一种高安全性的非可视化图像加密算法, 旨在提高现有加密算法的信息传输效率以及减少存储空间。首先明文图像的小波系数经过阈值处理和索引置乱 后,利用受控的部分哈达玛矩阵对其进行并行压缩,接着执行费雪耶兹行列置乱和加模操作,然后再将部分加 密图像分割并通过最低有效位(LSB)嵌入算法随机地隐藏到剩余加密图像的 alpha 通道中生成最终的类噪声密 文图像,具有超混沌特性的 CNN 所产生的伪随机序列用于构造置乱、扩散以及受控测量矩阵。最后,通过一 系列的安全性分析表明,该算法具有很高的传输效率和安全性。     

一种针对LSB匹配隐写的负载定位新算法

针对最不重要比特位(Least significant bit, LSB)匹配隐写算法,本文提出了一种新的负载定位算法。将隐写负载定位看作二分类问题,将载密图像每个像素位置看作待分类样本,通过提取载密图像集中每个像素位置在8个方向上的相邻像素差分平方均值特征,利用支持向量机(Support vector machine,SVM)分类器,将每个像素位置划分到正确的类别——负载位置或非负载位置。本文从理论和实验两方面验证了所提分类特征的有效性。针对LSB匹配隐写,本文方法与最大后验概率(Maximum a posteriori, MAP)载体估计方法做出比较,在低嵌入率条件下,本文方法的定位性能有明显提高。     

Hidden image display which required the special eyeglass for the viewer to observe the hidden image

Stenography is to conceal the hidden information within another information such that the hidden information can be extracted by the special technique. A steganographic display that required the special eyeglass for the viewer to observe the hidden image was newly proposed. In this hidden‐image display, the viewers wearing the special eyeglass can observe the hidden image, while the viewer with the naked eye can not discern the hidden image. Working principle and the calculation scheme for the generation of input images was investigated. The estimation of the normalized luminance for the gray levels of each pixel on the display was required for the calculation. The concept was experimentally verified using the commercial 3D display based on the patterned retarder and the polarizing eyeglass.     

A Novel High Quality High Capacity Image Hiding Scheme Based on Image Compression and an Optical Pixel Adjustment Process

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Image hiding methods embed a secret image into a host image. The resultant stego-image does not attract the interceptors that would not detect the differences between the host image and the stego-image. To exploit the great developments in the area of image compression and to improve the quality of stego-image, this paper proposes a new method to embed the secret image into the host image. Basically, the secret image is compressed and then embedded into host image. The embedding method is based on the Optimal Pixel Adjustment Process (OPAP) and genetic algorithm. In the paper we addressed the important issues to build such systems. The experimental results showed that the proposed method can improve the quality from 60% to 80% when compared with the simple Least Significant Bit (LSB) replacement methods. Adding to that, the mean square error of the stego-image is much lower compared with other methods (Chan & Cheng, 2004 Chan, C.K. and Cheng, L.M. 2004. Hiding data in images by simple LSB substitution. Pattern Recognition, 37(3): 469–474. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Chang, Hsiao, & Chan, 2003 Chang, C.C., Hsiao, J.Y. and Chan, C.S. 2003. Finding optimal least-significant-bit substitution in image hiding by dynamic programming strategy. Pattern Recognition, 36(7): 1583–1595. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Thien & Lin, 2003 Thien, C.C. and Lin, J.C. 2003. A simple and high-hiding capacity method for hiding digit-by-digit data in images based on modulus function. Pattern Recognition, 36(12): 2875–2881. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Tseng, Chan, Ho, & Chu, 208; Wang, Lin, & Lin, 2001 Wang, R.Z., Lin, C.F. and Lin, J.C. 2001. Image hiding by optimal LSB substitution and genetic algorithm. Pattern Recognition, 34(3): 671–683. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Also, the proposed technique improves capacity. In other words, we can embed a secret image with size 450?×?450 inside a hosting image with size 512?×?512.     

Quadruple Difference Expansion-Based Reversible Data Hiding Method for Digital Images

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Lossless data hiding is a special type of data hiding technique that guarantees not only the secret data but also the ability of cover media to be reconstructed without any distortion. A latest lossless data hiding technique is proposed by Hong Lin Jin's that is based on hiding only one data bit in the spatial domain in gray-level image. However, this method uses double difference expansion to embed bits which results in a small embedding capacity. For this purpose, we propose an improved algorithm with the potential of increasing the payload capacity and maintaining good image quality. The proposed improved algorithm is characterized by two aspects. First, the proposed improved reversible data hiding scheme is enhanced to exhibit data hiding in color palette images. Second, the embedding level is improved by using quadruple difference expansion to guarantee the embedding of 2-bit data into color images. Experiments of the proposed improved method have been conducted over several well-known test images. The results show that the proposed improved method significantly improves the embedding capacity over Hong Lin Jin's scheme by the range of 15–35% for grayscale images and 20–46% for color images while still maintaining the quality of the stego-images.