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Constructive Steganography by Tangles

  • Qian, Zhenxing (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University) ;
  • Pan, Lin (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University) ;
  • Huang, Nannan (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University) ;
  • Zhang, Xinpeng (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University)
  • Received : 2017.05.03
  • Accepted : 2018.02.13
  • Published : 2018.08.31
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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel steganography method to hide secret data during the generation of tangle patterns. Different from the traditional steganography based on modifying natural images, we propose to construct stego images according to the secret messages. We first create a model to group a selected image contour, and define some basic operations to generate various pattern cells. During data hiding, we create a cell library to establish the relationships between cells and secret data. By painting the cell inside the image contour, we create a dense tangle pattern to carry secret data. With the proposed method, a recipient can extract the secret data correctly. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a flexible embedding capacity. The constructed stego tangle image has good visual effects, and is secure against adversaries. Meanwhile, the stego tangle pattern is also robust to JPEG compression.

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