Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 606-619Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2022.3140899
Keywords
Information hiding; video steganography; anti-steganalysis; PU partition modes; CNN
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This article proposes a prediction unit(PU) based wide residual-net steganography(PWRN) for HEVC videos. The data hiding method in this article allows to modify all types of PUs except for 2N x 2N according to the secret data. The experimental results show that PWRN successfully resists the latest PU-targeted steganalysis algorithms and achieves the lowest bitrate cost and highest visual quality under the same capacity compared to the state-of-the-art work.
The steganography research of videos leads to excellent communication methods for transmitting secret message, and high efficiency video coding(HEVC) video is one popular steganographic carrier. This article proposes a prediction unit(PU) based wide residual-net steganography(PWRN) for HEVC videos. The visual quality distortion of modifying PUs is theoretically analyzed, which illustrates that modifying PUs only has a little negative effect on visual quality. Therefore, the data hiding method in this article allows to modify all types of PUs except for 2N x 2N to each other according to the secret data. In this way, high embedding efficiency is achieved, and the PU distributions in stego-videos can be kept similar to those of cover-videos, which is essential for resisting steganalysis. Meanwhile, a super-resolution convolutional neural network(CNN) with wide residual-net filter(WRNF) is proposed to replace the in-loop filter in HEVC for reconstructing I-pictures, which results in more precisely predicted P-pictures, and it further leads to less bitrate cost and better visual quality of stego-videos. The experimental results show that the proposed PWRN successfully resists the latest PU-targeted steganalysis algorithms, and compared with the state-of-the-art work, PWRN has achieved the lowest bitrate cost and the highest visual quality under the same capacity.
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