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A novel steganography scheme for video H.264/AVC without distortion drift

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Many steganography schemes have been proposed for video sequences. However, the embedding capacity obtained by these schemes is still unsatisfactory. In this paper, a novel steganography scheme has proposed to further improve the embedding capacity while guaranteeing high visual quality of embedded video H.264/AVC sequences. In the proposed scheme, quantized DCT coefficients are divided into two different clusters, hiding cluster and preventing cluster. Then, the hiding cluster is used for embedding the secret data with small distortion while the preventing cluster is used for avoiding the distortion drift in stego video sequence. In the proposed scheme, the embedding modification direction table is constructed for embedding data. By doing so, the distortion in the embedded video sequence is maintained as small as possible. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed scheme outperforms to other existing schemes in terms of embedding capacity while maintaining good visual quality.

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This research is funded by Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under grant number 102.01-2016.06.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, 40724, Republic of China

    Dinh-Chien Nguyen, Fang-Rong Hsu & Hsieh-Yung Hsien

  2. Faculty of Information Technology, Hung Yen University of Technology and Education, Hung Yen, Vietnam

    Dinh-Chien Nguyen

  3. School of Engineering and Technology, Tra Vinh University, Tra Vinh, Vietnam

    Thai-Son Nguyen

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Nguyen, DC., Nguyen, TS., Hsu, FR. et al. A novel steganography scheme for video H.264/AVC without distortion drift. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 16033–16052 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6976-3

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