An improved YASS approach using irregular host-Blocks and modified quantization index modulation

Yet Another Steganography Scheme (YASS) is a recently developed steganographic scheme to randomly select host blocks for data embedding. However, the randomization is not sufficient enough in the sense that some positions in an image are definitely impossible to hold host blocks, especially for the...

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Main Authors: Lv, Xianming., Ma, Lihong., Tian, Jing.
Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84769
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12816
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author Lv, Xianming.
Ma, Lihong.
Tian, Jing.
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Ma, Lihong.
Tian, Jing.
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description Yet Another Steganography Scheme (YASS) is a recently developed steganographic scheme to randomly select host blocks for data embedding. However, the randomization is not sufficient enough in the sense that some positions in an image are definitely impossible to hold host blocks, especially for the cases with high embedding rates. In view of this, an improved YASS approach is proposed in this paper to further randomize embedding locations and resist attacks upon observation features. The contributions of the proposed approach are two-fold. Firstly, an irregular constructed host block is selected using flexible of starting points and scanning modes in each cover big-block, instead of the fixed-size 8 block used in YASS. Secondly, a modified Quantization index modulation is proposed to shift zero-zones of odd and even quantizers so that the clustered coefficients can be eliminated and it is able to resist the specific steganalysis. Experimental results are provided to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach.
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spelling ntu-10356/847692020-03-07T13:24:45Z An improved YASS approach using irregular host-Blocks and modified quantization index modulation Lv, Xianming. Ma, Lihong. Tian, Jing. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (8th : 2012 : Piraeus, Greece) Yet Another Steganography Scheme (YASS) is a recently developed steganographic scheme to randomly select host blocks for data embedding. However, the randomization is not sufficient enough in the sense that some positions in an image are definitely impossible to hold host blocks, especially for the cases with high embedding rates. In view of this, an improved YASS approach is proposed in this paper to further randomize embedding locations and resist attacks upon observation features. The contributions of the proposed approach are two-fold. Firstly, an irregular constructed host block is selected using flexible of starting points and scanning modes in each cover big-block, instead of the fixed-size 8 block used in YASS. Secondly, a modified Quantization index modulation is proposed to shift zero-zones of odd and even quantizers so that the clustered coefficients can be eliminated and it is able to resist the specific steganalysis. Experimental results are provided to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach. 2013-08-02T02:24:26Z 2019-12-06T15:50:56Z 2013-08-02T02:24:26Z 2019-12-06T15:50:56Z 2012 2012 Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84769 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12816 10.1109/IIH-MSP.2012.81 en
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An improved YASS approach using irregular host-Blocks and modified quantization index modulation
title An improved YASS approach using irregular host-Blocks and modified quantization index modulation
title_full An improved YASS approach using irregular host-Blocks and modified quantization index modulation
title_fullStr An improved YASS approach using irregular host-Blocks and modified quantization index modulation
title_full_unstemmed An improved YASS approach using irregular host-Blocks and modified quantization index modulation
title_short An improved YASS approach using irregular host-Blocks and modified quantization index modulation
title_sort improved yass approach using irregular host blocks and modified quantization index modulation
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84769
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12816
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