A Video Steganography Method Based on Transform Block Decision for H.265/HEVC

High definition video application has drawn a lot of interest both from academy and industry. The relevant latest video coding technology, H.265/HEVC has been a promising area for video steganography. In this paper, we present a novel and efficient video steganography method based on transform block...

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Main Authors: Hongguo Zhao, Yunxia Liu, Yonghao Wang, Si Liu, Cong Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9354802/
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author Hongguo Zhao
Yunxia Liu
Yonghao Wang
Si Liu
Cong Feng
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Cong Feng
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description High definition video application has drawn a lot of interest both from academy and industry. The relevant latest video coding technology, H.265/HEVC has been a promising area for video steganography. In this paper, we present a novel and efficient video steganography method based on transform block decision for H.265. In order to improve the visual quality of carrier video, we analyze the embedding error of data hiding with modifying partitioning parameters of CB, PB and TB, and modify the transform block decision to embed secret message and update corresponding residuals synchronously. In order to limit embedding error, we utilize an efficient embedding mapping rule which can embed N (N>1) bits message and at most modify one bit transform partitioning flag. Our experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve better visual quality, larger embedding capacity and less bit-rate increase than state-of-the-art researches.
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spelling doaj.art-0489fe98a0ee40a9be9da7dbf186eef32022-12-21T23:46:31ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-019555065552110.1109/ACCESS.2021.30596549354802A Video Steganography Method Based on Transform Block Decision for H.265/HEVCHongguo Zhao0Yunxia Liu1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1263-2828Yonghao Wang2Si Liu3Cong Feng4College of Information Science and Technology, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Technology, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, ChinaSchool of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, U.K.College of Information Science and Technology, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Technology, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, ChinaHigh definition video application has drawn a lot of interest both from academy and industry. The relevant latest video coding technology, H.265/HEVC has been a promising area for video steganography. In this paper, we present a novel and efficient video steganography method based on transform block decision for H.265. In order to improve the visual quality of carrier video, we analyze the embedding error of data hiding with modifying partitioning parameters of CB, PB and TB, and modify the transform block decision to embed secret message and update corresponding residuals synchronously. In order to limit embedding error, we utilize an efficient embedding mapping rule which can embed N (N>1) bits message and at most modify one bit transform partitioning flag. Our experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve better visual quality, larger embedding capacity and less bit-rate increase than state-of-the-art researches.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9354802/H265/HEVCtransform block decisiontransform partitioning flagvideo steganography
spellingShingle Hongguo Zhao
Yunxia Liu
Yonghao Wang
Si Liu
Cong Feng
A Video Steganography Method Based on Transform Block Decision for H.265/HEVC
IEEE Access
H265/HEVC
transform block decision
transform partitioning flag
video steganography
title A Video Steganography Method Based on Transform Block Decision for H.265/HEVC
title_full A Video Steganography Method Based on Transform Block Decision for H.265/HEVC
title_fullStr A Video Steganography Method Based on Transform Block Decision for H.265/HEVC
title_full_unstemmed A Video Steganography Method Based on Transform Block Decision for H.265/HEVC
title_short A Video Steganography Method Based on Transform Block Decision for H.265/HEVC
title_sort video steganography method based on transform block decision for h 265 hevc
topic H265/HEVC
transform block decision
transform partitioning flag
video steganography
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9354802/
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