In order to solve the problems of low image
information hiding capacity and
distortion in the aspect of
data privacy protection, the invention provides an
information hiding method, device and
system based on a cavity spatial
pyramid, which are used for embedding and extracting
watermark information in a protected image to realize image version
authentication and protection. According to the method, a cavity space
pyramid module is built by adopting cascaded and parallel cavity
convolution layers, the
receptive field is expanded, the multi-scale and multi-cavity-rate characteristics are extracted, information is more accurately hidden in a semantic redundancy position, and the decoding capability of a
network on embedded information is improved; meanwhile, the decoding accuracy is improved by using
cross entropy loss; in addition, the quality of the generated image is improved through residual error and
linear operation confrontation in the discrimination network; finally, in order to improve the network stability, updating of different scales, cosine annealing adjustment and an intensive connection strategy are used in training. According to the method, high-capacity
information hiding is achieved, meanwhile, it is guaranteed that images are not distorted, and experiments prove that the method has high information hiding capacity.