Image data-hiding based on capacity-approaching dirty-paper coding

Yang Yang; Yong Sun; Vladimir Stanković; Zixiang Xiong

doi:10.1117/12.644908

16 February 2006 Image data-hiding based on capacity-approaching dirty-paper coding

Yang Yang, Yong Sun, Vladimir Stanković, Zixiang Xiong

Proceedings Volume 6072, Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VIII; 607214 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.644908
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We present an image data-hiding scheme based on near-capacity dirty-paper codes. The scheme achieves high embedding rates by "hiding" information into mid-frequency DCT coefficients among each DCT block of the host image. To reduce the perceptual distortion due to data-hiding, the mid-frequency DCT coefficients are first perceptually scaled according to Watson's model. Then a rate-1/3 projection matrix in conjunction with a rate-1/5 capacity-approaching dirty-paper code is applied. We are able to embed 1500 information bits into 256×256 images, outperforming, under a Gaussian noise attack, currently the best known data-hiding scheme by 33%. Robustness tests against different attacks, such as low-pass filtering, image scaling, and lossy compression, show that our scheme is a good candidate for high-rate image data-hiding applications.

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Yang Yang, Yong Sun, Vladimir Stanković, and Zixiang Xiong "Image data-hiding based on capacity-approaching dirty-paper coding", Proc. SPIE 6072, Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VIII, 607214 (16 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.644908

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