• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.2723-2740
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• 2017

Steganographic schemes which are based on minimizing an additive distortion function defined the overall impacts after embedding as the sum of embedding costs for individual image element. However, mutual impacts during embedding are often ignored. In this paper, an adaptive JPEG steganographic method based on weight distribution for embedding costs is proposed. The method takes mutual impacts during embedding in consideration. Firstly, an analysis is made about the factors that affect embedding fluctuations among JPEG coefficients. Then the Distortion Update Strategy (DUS) of updating the distortion costs is proposed, enabling to dynamically update the embedding costs group by group. At last, a kind of adaptive JPEG steganographic algorithm is designed combining with the update strategy and well-known additive distortion function. The experimental result illustrates that the proposed algorithm gains a superior performance in the fight against the current state-of-the-art steganalyzers with high-dimensional features.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.5209-5228
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• 2015

According to the characteristics of adaptive JPEG steganography which determines the changed DCT coefficients based on embedding distortion, a new steganalysis method by selecting the DCT coefficients with small distortion values is proposed. Firstly, the principle of adaptive JPEG steganography through minimizing distortion is introduced. Secondly, the practicability of selecting the changed DCT coefficients according to distortion values is studied. Thirdly, the proposed steganalysis method is given and the embedding sensitivity of the steganalysis feature extracted from the selected DCT coefficients is analyzed. Lastly, the implement processes of the proposed method are presented and analyzed in details. In the experiments, PQt, PQe and J-UNIWARD steganography are used as examples to verify the effect of the proposed steganalysis method for adaptive JPEG steganography. A serial experimental results show the detection accuracy can be improved obviously, especially when the payload is relatively low.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.112-119
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• 2007

Reversible data embedding theory has marked a new epoch for data hiding and information security. Being reversible, the original data and the embedded data as well should be completely restored. Difference expansion transform is a remarkable breakthrough in reversible data hiding scheme. The difference expansion method achieves high embedding capacity and keeps the distortion low. This paper shows that the difference expansion method with simplified location map, and new expandability and changeability can achieve more embedding capacity while keeping the distortion almost the same as the original expansion method.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 비트율-왜곡 (R-D) 이론을 사용하는 웨이브렛 기반 정지영상 부호화 방식을 위한 효율적인 알고리즘을 제안한다. 트리 구조에 기반한 기존의 부호화 방식은 비트율-왜곡 이론을 고려하지 않았기 때문에 감소된 부호화 성능을 지닌다. 본 논문에서는 계층적 트리 분할 (SPIHBT) 알고리즘에 비트율-왜곡 최적화 임베딩 (RDE) 연산을 적용한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 SPIHT의 리스트에 웨이브렛 계수의 부호화 순서를 위한 기준으로 비트율-왜곡 경사를 사용한다. 이를 위한 변형된 트리분할과 비트율-왜곡 최적화 리스트 스캔 방식을 설명한다. 제안된 방식은 기존의 SPIHT 및 RDE 알고리즘에 비해 향상된 비트율-화질 성능을 보인다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.247-250
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• 2002

Data embedding has recently become important for protecting authority. In this paper, we Propose a robust data embedding technique for images. Our techniques are based on the convolution between message image and a random phase carrier. We add extra bits with carrier image to improve precision of detecting rate, moreover, we use block by block based cyclic correlation for the compensation of distortion. In experiment, we show that the proposed a1gorithm is robust to Stirmark 3.1. attacks.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.974-986
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• 2016

Reversible image watermarking, a type of digital data hiding, is capable of recovering the original image and extracting the hidden message with precision. A number of reversible algorithms have been proposed to achieve a high embedding capacity and a low distortion. While numerous algorithms for the achievement of a favorable performance regarding a small embedding capacity exist, the main goal of this paper is the achievement of a more favorable performance regarding a larger embedding capacity and a lower distortion. This paper therefore proposes a reversible data hiding algorithm for which a novel piecewise 2D auto-regression (P2AR) predictor that is based on a rhombus-embedding scheme is used. In addition, a minimum description length (MDL) approach is applied to remove the outlier pixels from a training set so that the effect of a multiple linear regression can be maximized. The experiment results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed method is superior to those of previous methods.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.849-857
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a (2,2)-reversible secret image sharing scheme using histogram shifting and difference expansion. Two techniques are widely used in information hiding. Advantages of them are the low distortion between cover and stego images, and high embedding capacity. In secret image sharing procedure, unlike Shamir's secret sharing, a histogram generate that the difference value between the original image and copy image is computed by difference expansion. And then, the secret image is embedded into original and copy images by using histogram shifting. Lastly, two generated shadow images are distributed to each participant by the dealer. In the experimental results, we measure a capacity of a secret image and a distortion ratio between original image and shadow image. The results show that the embedding capacity and image distortion ratio of the proposed scheme are superior to the previous schemes.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2008년도 정보통신설비 학술대회
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• pp.201-204
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• 2008

In this paper a new steganographic method is presented with minimum distortion. This paper focused on DCT rounding error and optimized that in a very easy way, resulting stego image has less distortion than other existing methods. The proposed method compared with F5 steganography algorithm, and the proposed method achieved better performance. This paper considered the DCT rounding error for lower distortion with possibly higher embedding capacity.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권12호
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• pp.3100-3116
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• 2012

Reversible data hiding enables the embedding of messages in a host image without any loss of host content, which is proposed for image authentication that if the watermarked image is deemed authentic, we can revert it to the exact copy of the original image before the embedding occurred. In this paper, we present an improved histogram-based reversible data hiding scheme based on prediction and sorting. A rhombus prediction is employed to explore the prediction for histogram-based embedding. Sorting the prediction has a good influence on increasing the embedding capacity. Characteristics of the pixel difference are used to achieve large hiding capacity while keeping low distortion. The proposed scheme exploits a two-stage embedding strategy to solve the problem about communicating peak points. We also present a histogram shifting technique to prevent overflow and underflow. Performance comparisons with other existing reversible data hiding schemes are provided to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.3353-3370
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• 2016

The way of combination of Product Perfect Codes (PPCs) is based on the theory of short codes constructing long codes. PPCs have larger embedding rate than Hamming codes by expending embedding columns in a coding block, and they have been proven to enhance the performance of the F₅ steganographic method. In this paper, the proposed modified product codes called MPCs are introduced as an efficient way to embed more data than PPCs by increasing 2^r₂-1-r₂ embedding columns. Unlike PPC, the generation of the check matrix H in MPC is random, and it is different from PPC. In addition a simple solving way of the linear algebraic equations is applied to figure out the problem of expending embedding columns or compensating cases. Furthermore, the MPCs over ℤ₄ have been proposed to further enhance not only the performance but also the computation speed which reaches O(n₁+σ). Finally, the proposed ℤ₄-MPC intends to maximize the embedding rate with maintaining less distortion , and the performance surpasses the existing improved product perfect codes. The performance of large embedding rate should have the significance in the high-capacity of covert communication.