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New JPEG Steganographic Scheme with High Security Performance

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Digital Watermarking (IWDW 2010)

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In this paper, we present a new JPEG steganographic scheme. Three measures are taken in our method: 1) The secret message bits are not spread into the quantized block discrete cosine transform (BDCT) coefficients of all frequencies, and only those coefficients (including those of value 0) belonging to relatively low frequencies are selected for data embedding; 2) For any coefficients selected for embedding, the rounding error in JPEG quantization is utilized directly to guide the data embedding; 3) Matrix embedding. The experiments have demonstrated that these three measures can help to achieve small distortion in spatial domain, preserve the histogram of quantized block discrete cosine transform coefficients, and enhance the embedding efficiency of matrix embedding, etc. Consequently, the proposed steganographic scheme has achieved a high security performance. It can resist today’s most powerful JPEG steganalyzers effectively.

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  1. School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, GD, 510006, China

    Fangjun Huang & Jiwu Huang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Yun Qing Shi

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  1. Graduate School of Information Management and Security, CIST, Korea University, 136-701, Seoul, Korea

    Hyoung-Joong Kim

  2. New Jersey Institute of Technology, 07102, Newark, NJ, USA

    Yun Qing Shi

  3. Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100, Siena, Italy

    Mauro Barni

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Huang, F., Shi, Y.Q., Huang, J. (2011). New JPEG Steganographic Scheme with High Security Performance. In: Kim, HJ., Shi, Y.Q., Barni, M. (eds) Digital Watermarking. IWDW 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6526. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18405-5_16

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