Bit-plane decomposition steganography using wavelet compressed video

Author

Furuta, Tomonori ; Noda, Hideki ; Niimi, Michiharu ; Kawaguchi, Eiji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

15-18 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

970

Abstract

This paper presents a Steganography method using lossy compressed video which provides a natural way to send a large amount of secret data. The proposed method is based on 3-D set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) algorithm for video compression and bit-plane complexity segmentation (BPCS) Steganography. In 3-D SPIHT coding, wavelet coefficients in 3-D discrete wavelet transformed video are quantized into a bit-plane structure and therefore BPCS Steganography can be applied in the wavelet domain. Embedding rates of around 28% of the compressed video size were achieved for twelve bit representation of wavelet coefficients with no noticeable degradation in video quality.

Keywords

cryptography; data compression; data encapsulation; discrete wavelet transforms; image representation; image segmentation; telecommunication security; transform coding; video coding; 3-D set partitioning hierarchical tree algorithm; bit-plane decomposition segmentation steganography; discrete wavelet transform; information hiding; information security; lossy wavelet compressed video; secret data; video bit representation; video coding; video quality; video quantization; wavelet coefficient; Containers; Data engineering; Discrete wavelet transforms; Humans; Image coding; Partitioning algorithms; Steganography; Video compression; Wavelet coefficients; Wavelet domain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2003 and Fourth Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia. Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference of the Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8185-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.2003.1292602

Filename

1292602