A steganographic method for hiding data in VQ encoded images

Author

Yu, Yuan-Hui ; Chang, Chin-Chen ; Hu, Yu-Chen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chung Cheng Univ., Chiayi, Taiwan

fYear

2004

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

358

Lastpage

361

Abstract

A novel image-hiding scheme based on the vector quantization scheme is proposed in this paper. Multiple codebooks are used in this scheme and the mutual relationship between a pair of VQ indices is exploited to hide secret data. The secret data are embedded in the codebook indices corresponding to the pair of VQ indices. The hidden secret data can be extracted by decoding the VQ compressed codes. Experimental results show that the embedding capacity and image quality are superior to Jo and Kim´s (2002) scheme. Besides, in the proposed scheme, the image quality based on embedding the same amount of secret data is always better than the compared scheme.

Keywords

cryptography; data compression; data encapsulation; decoding; image coding; table lookup; vector quantisation; VQ encoded images; VQ indices; codebook indices; compressed codes; data embedding; data hiding; decoding; embedding capacity; image hiding; image quality; multiple codebooks; mutual relationship; secret data; steganographic method; vector quantization; Computer science; Cryptography; Data encapsulation; Data mining; Digital images; Discrete cosine transforms; Image coding; Steganography; Vector quantization; Watermarking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing, 2004. Proceedings of 2004 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8687-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIMP.2004.1434074

Filename

1434074