Traditional image steganography often leans interests towards safely embedding hidden information into cover images with payload capacity almost neglected. This paper combines recent deep convolutional neural network methods with image-into-image steganography. It successfully hides the same size images with a decoding rate of 98.2 or bpp (bits per pixel) of 23.57 by changing only 0.76 of the cover image on average. Our method directly learns end-to-end mappings between the cover image and the embedded image and between the hidden image and the decoded image. We further show that our embedded image, while with mega payload capacity, is still robust to statistical analysis.
Since the least significant bits of the image data should look like random data, there are major two schemes in distributing the hiding data. The first kind of methods is to put in the hiding message sequentially after encrypting or compressing to achieve the randomness. The second kind of methods is scattering the hiding data by adopting a mutually acknowledged random seed by which generates the actual hiding sequence @cite_39 .
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Abstract In this paper, we proposes high payload reversible data hiding scheme using weighted matrix. Generate cover image by enlarge the size of original image using interpolation. Partition the original image into (3 × 3) pixel blocks and cover image into (5 × 5) blocks. Perform modular sum of entry-wise multiplication of an (3 × 3) original pixel block with same size shared predefined weighted matrix W . At most twelve multiplication operations are performed to embed 48 bits secret data within an (5 × 5) overlapped pixel block. In each operation, the data embedding position are identified and stored the positional value by modifying three least significant bits of the interleaved pixel of cover image to hide large amount of secret data. For i -th block i = 1, 2, …, we update the weighted matrix W i +1 as W i +1 = ( W i × κ − 1) mod 9, where gcd ( κ , 9) = 1. The original pixels are not effected during data embedding in our scheme which assure reversibility. The proposed scheme provides average embedding payload 2.97 bits per pixel (bpp) with good visual quality measured by peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) guaranteed to be higher than 37.97 dB. Finally, we compare our scheme with other state-of-the-art methods and obtain reasonably better performance in terms of data embedding capacity.