Coverless Image Steganography: A Survey
With the digitalization of information, a lot of multimedia data are under attack, information security has become a key issue of public concern. Image steganography, aiming at using cover images to convey secret information has become one of the most challenge and important subjects in the field of...
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| author | Jiaohua Qin Yuanjing Luo Xuyu Xiang Yun Tan Huajun Huang |
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| description | With the digitalization of information, a lot of multimedia data are under attack, information security has become a key issue of public concern. Image steganography, aiming at using cover images to convey secret information has become one of the most challenge and important subjects in the field of information security recently. Different from the traditional image steganography, coverless image steganography does not need to employ the designated cover image for embedding the secret data but directly transfers secret information through its own properties such as pixel brightness value, color, texture, edge, contour and high-level semantics. Therefore, it radically resist the detection of steganalysis tools and significantly improves the security of the image. Its basic idea is to analyze the attributes of the image and map them to the secret information according to certain rules based on the characteristics of the attributes. This paper includes more than 50 key contributions to provide a comprehensive survey in this field, covers the main aspects of coverless image steganography research: the fundamental frameworks, pre-processing, feature extraction, generation of hash sequence and mapping relationships. The existing methods are evaluated and the prospect of future work is also summarized. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-030aff569de74b438f9323f1ac3776932022-12-21T23:36:44ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-01717137217139410.1109/ACCESS.2019.29554528911367Coverless Image Steganography: A SurveyJiaohua Qin0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7549-7731Yuanjing Luo1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9924-1100Xuyu Xiang2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2778-7531Yun Tan3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9855-8234Huajun Huang4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0334-6600College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, ChinaSchool of Information Technology and Management, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha, ChinaWith the digitalization of information, a lot of multimedia data are under attack, information security has become a key issue of public concern. Image steganography, aiming at using cover images to convey secret information has become one of the most challenge and important subjects in the field of information security recently. Different from the traditional image steganography, coverless image steganography does not need to employ the designated cover image for embedding the secret data but directly transfers secret information through its own properties such as pixel brightness value, color, texture, edge, contour and high-level semantics. Therefore, it radically resist the detection of steganalysis tools and significantly improves the security of the image. Its basic idea is to analyze the attributes of the image and map them to the secret information according to certain rules based on the characteristics of the attributes. This paper includes more than 50 key contributions to provide a comprehensive survey in this field, covers the main aspects of coverless image steganography research: the fundamental frameworks, pre-processing, feature extraction, generation of hash sequence and mapping relationships. The existing methods are evaluated and the prospect of future work is also summarized.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8911367/Steganographycoverless image steganographyinformation hidinginformation security |
| spellingShingle | Jiaohua Qin Yuanjing Luo Xuyu Xiang Yun Tan Huajun Huang Coverless Image Steganography: A Survey IEEE Access Steganography coverless image steganography information hiding information security |
| title | Coverless Image Steganography: A Survey |
| title_full | Coverless Image Steganography: A Survey |
| title_fullStr | Coverless Image Steganography: A Survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coverless Image Steganography: A Survey |
| title_short | Coverless Image Steganography: A Survey |
| title_sort | coverless image steganography a survey |
| topic | Steganography coverless image steganography information hiding information security |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8911367/ |
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