6 July 2023 Reversible and colorable deep image steganography with large capacity
Li Wu, Hang Cheng, Wanxi Yan, Fei Chen, Meiqing Wang, Tingqiang Wang
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Abstract

Image steganography is a technique for hiding secret data within a cover image and thus making the data immune to typical steganalysis attacks. Recently, there is a great concern about color distortion in most commonly used color-based image steganography methods. To address this issue, we first propose a steganography method that hides secret images in grayscale image and creates a color image. Specifically, we design a colorable information hiding mechanism to convert the image steganography task to gray-to-color conversion. In addition, we exploit the invertible neural network to realize image hiding and recovering in the forward and backward propagation, respectively. Meanwhile, we develop a perceptual loss function to effectively improve the quality of the stego image for increasing steganography security. Experiments indicate that the proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art image steganography on secret image recovery, embedding capacity, and steganography security over different datasets.

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Li Wu, Hang Cheng, Wanxi Yan, Fei Chen, Meiqing Wang, and Tingqiang Wang "Reversible and colorable deep image steganography with large capacity," Journal of Electronic Imaging 32(4), 043006 (6 July 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.32.4.043006
Received: 21 February 2023; Accepted: 26 June 2023; Published: 6 July 2023
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KEYWORDS
Image restoration

Steganography

Image quality

Indium nitride

Image processing

Information security

Education and training

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