A video information hiding method and device based on inter-block decoupling

Abstract

The invention relates to a video information hiding method and device based on inter-block decoupling. The method includes the following steps: (1) inputting a carrier video to be embedded and obtaining the channel parameters thereof, wherein the channel parameters include whether each block is a non-reference block, the values of non-zero DCT coefficients in each non-reference block and the embedding cost of each non-reference block; (2) carrying out steganographic coding by taking the non-zero DCT coefficients in all the non-reference blocks as the carrier of a covert channel; and (3) compressing the carrier video to be embedded, and using the lowest bit to replace and modify the non-zero DCT coefficients in all the non-reference blocks according to the channel parameters acquired in step (1) and the coding result obtained in step (2) in the process of compression to obtain a steganographic video file. The generation of the cost drift phenomenon is avoided by using the technology ofdecoupling between carrier blocks. The method and the device are especially suitable for a covert communication scenario requiring low real-time performance and high security performance.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a video information hiding (Video Information Hiding) method, in particular to an adaptive information hiding design framework mainly suitable for H.264 / AVC compressed video, and a specific information hiding method and device. This method uses discrete cosine transform (Discrete Cosine Transform, DCT) coefficients generated by intra-frame predictive coding as embedding elements, based on inter-block decoupling technology, and achieves the purpose of minimizing embedding cost while realizing message embedding, which belongs to the field of information security technology. The information hiding subfield of . Background technique [0002] Currently, the information hiding technology using digital multimedia content as a carrier is mainly divided into two categories: Steganography and Digital Watermarking. Steganographic technology is mainly used for covert communication, which can embed secret information into digital ...

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However, this method cannot apply the STC-based cost minimization embedding model in the I-frame DCT coefficient domain, so that it cannot achieve true adaptive embedding.

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