Image steganography is one of the prominent technologies in data hiding standards.Steganographic system performance mostly depends on the embedding strategy.Its goal is to embed strictly confidential information into ...Image steganography is one of the prominent technologies in data hiding standards.Steganographic system performance mostly depends on the embedding strategy.Its goal is to embed strictly confidential information into images without causing perceptible changes in the original image.The randomization strategies in data embedding techniques may utilize random domains,pixels,or region-of-interest for concealing secrets into a cover image,preventing information from being discovered by an attacker.The implementation of an appropriate embedding technique can achieve a fair balance between embedding capability and stego image imperceptibility,but it is challenging.A systematic approach is used with a standard methodology to carry out this study.This review concentrates on the critical examination of several embedding strategies,incorporating experimental results with state-of-the-art methods emphasizing the robustness,security,payload capacity,and visual quality metrics of the stego images.The fundamental ideas of steganography are presented in this work,along with a unique viewpoint that sets it apart from previous works by highlighting research gaps,important problems,and difficulties.Additionally,it offers a discussion of suggested directions for future study to advance and investigate uncharted territory in image steganography.展开更多
Multiple images steganography refers to hiding secret messages in multiple natural images to minimize the leakage of secret messages during transmission.Currently,the main multiple images steganography algorithms main...Multiple images steganography refers to hiding secret messages in multiple natural images to minimize the leakage of secret messages during transmission.Currently,the main multiple images steganography algorithms mainly distribute the payloads as sparsely as possible inmultiple cover images to improve the detection error rate of stego images.In order to enable the payloads to be accurately and efficiently distributed in each cover image,this paper proposes a multiple images steganography for JPEG images based on optimal payload redistribution.Firstly,the algorithm uses the principle of dynamic programming to redistribute the payloads of the cover images to reduce the time required in the process of payloads distribution.Then,by reducing the difference between the features of the cover images and the stego images to increase the detection error rate of the stego images.Secondly,this paper uses a data decomposition mechanism based on Vandermonde matrix.Even if part of the data is lost during the transmission of the secret messages,as long as the data loss rate is less than the data redundancy rate,the original secret messages can be recovered.Experimental results show that the method proposed in this paper improves the efficiency of payloads distribution compared with existing multiple images steganography.At the same time,the algorithm can achieve the optimal payload distribution of multiple images steganography to improve the anti-statistical detection performance of stego images.展开更多
嵌入效率高和隐藏信息量大的信息隐藏算法,已成为信息安全领域研究的一个热点。通过对该类信息隐藏算法的分析,提出了一种高效率的随机分块信息隐藏算法ERS(an Efficient high payload and Ran-domly selected sub-blocks image Stegano...嵌入效率高和隐藏信息量大的信息隐藏算法,已成为信息安全领域研究的一个热点。通过对该类信息隐藏算法的分析,提出了一种高效率的随机分块信息隐藏算法ERS(an Efficient high payload and Ran-domly selected sub-blocks image Steganography)。实验与分析结果表明:该算法不仅能够减小对载体的修改,提高嵌入效率,而且其算法实现简单、计算量小,性能优于其他算法。展开更多
基金This research was funded by the Ministry of Higher Education(MOHE)through Fundamental Research Grant Scheme(FRGS)under the Grand Number FRGS/1/2020/ICT01/UK M/02/4,and University Kebangsaan Malaysia for open access publication.
文摘Image steganography is one of the prominent technologies in data hiding standards.Steganographic system performance mostly depends on the embedding strategy.Its goal is to embed strictly confidential information into images without causing perceptible changes in the original image.The randomization strategies in data embedding techniques may utilize random domains,pixels,or region-of-interest for concealing secrets into a cover image,preventing information from being discovered by an attacker.The implementation of an appropriate embedding technique can achieve a fair balance between embedding capability and stego image imperceptibility,but it is challenging.A systematic approach is used with a standard methodology to carry out this study.This review concentrates on the critical examination of several embedding strategies,incorporating experimental results with state-of-the-art methods emphasizing the robustness,security,payload capacity,and visual quality metrics of the stego images.The fundamental ideas of steganography are presented in this work,along with a unique viewpoint that sets it apart from previous works by highlighting research gaps,important problems,and difficulties.Additionally,it offers a discussion of suggested directions for future study to advance and investigate uncharted territory in image steganography.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U1736214,U1804263,U1636219,61772281,61772549,and 61872448)the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2016YFB0801303,2016QY01W0105)the Science and Technology Innovation Talent Project of Henan Province(No.184200510018).
文摘Multiple images steganography refers to hiding secret messages in multiple natural images to minimize the leakage of secret messages during transmission.Currently,the main multiple images steganography algorithms mainly distribute the payloads as sparsely as possible inmultiple cover images to improve the detection error rate of stego images.In order to enable the payloads to be accurately and efficiently distributed in each cover image,this paper proposes a multiple images steganography for JPEG images based on optimal payload redistribution.Firstly,the algorithm uses the principle of dynamic programming to redistribute the payloads of the cover images to reduce the time required in the process of payloads distribution.Then,by reducing the difference between the features of the cover images and the stego images to increase the detection error rate of the stego images.Secondly,this paper uses a data decomposition mechanism based on Vandermonde matrix.Even if part of the data is lost during the transmission of the secret messages,as long as the data loss rate is less than the data redundancy rate,the original secret messages can be recovered.Experimental results show that the method proposed in this paper improves the efficiency of payloads distribution compared with existing multiple images steganography.At the same time,the algorithm can achieve the optimal payload distribution of multiple images steganography to improve the anti-statistical detection performance of stego images.
文摘嵌入效率高和隐藏信息量大的信息隐藏算法,已成为信息安全领域研究的一个热点。通过对该类信息隐藏算法的分析,提出了一种高效率的随机分块信息隐藏算法ERS(an Efficient high payload and Ran-domly selected sub-blocks image Steganography)。实验与分析结果表明:该算法不仅能够减小对载体的修改,提高嵌入效率,而且其算法实现简单、计算量小,性能优于其他算法。
