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Dither modulation based adaptive steganography resisting jpeg compression and statistic detection

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In order to improve the JPEG compression resistant performance of the current steganogrpahy algorithms resisting statistic detection, an adaptive steganography algorithm resisting JPEG compression and detection based on dither modulation is proposed. Utilizing the adaptive dither modulation algorithm based on the quantization tables, the embedding domains resisting JPEG compression for spatial images and JPEG images are determined separately. Then the embedding cost function is constructed by the embedding costs calculation algorithm based on side information. Finally, the RS coding is combined with the STCs to realize the minimum costs messages embedding while improving the correct rates of the extracted messages after JPEG compression. The experimental results demonstrate that the algorithm can be applied to both spatial images and JPEG images. Compared with the current S-UNIWARD steganography, the message extraction error rates of the proposed algorithm after JPEG compression decrease from about 50 % to nearly 0; compared with the current JPEG compression and detection resistant steganography algorithms, the proposed algorithm not only possesses the comparable JPEG compression resistant ability, but also has a stronger detection resistant performance and a higher operation efficiency.

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This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1636219, 61379151, 61401512, and 61572052), the Excellent Youth Foundation of Henan Province of China (No. 144100510001).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Yi Zhang, Xiaodong Zhu, Chunfang Yang & Xiangyang Luo

  2. Zhengzhou Science and Technology Institute, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Yi Zhang, Xiaodong Zhu, Chunfang Yang & Xiangyang Luo

  3. School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China

    Chuan Qin

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Zhang, Y., Zhu, X., Qin, C. et al. Dither modulation based adaptive steganography resisting jpeg compression and statistic detection. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 17913–17935 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4506-3

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