Traditional video steganography methods are based on modifying the covert space for embedding, whereas we propose an innovative approach that embeds secret message within semantic feature for steganography during the video editing process. Although existing traditional video steganography methods display a certain level of security and embedding capacity, they lack adequate robustness against common distortions in online social networks (OSNs). In this paper, we introduce an end-to-end robust generative video steganography network (RoGVS), which achieves visual editing by modifying semantic feature of videos to embed secret message. We employ face-swapping scenario to showcase the visual editing effects. We first design a secret message embedding module to adaptively hide secret message into the semantic feature of videos. Extensive experiments display that the proposed RoGVS method applied to facial video datasets demonstrate its superiority over existing video and image steganography techniques in terms of both robustness and capacity.
@article{arxiv.2401.00652,
title = {From Covert Hiding to Visual Editing: Robust Generative Video Steganography},
author = {Xueying Mao and Xiaoxiao Hu and Wanli Peng and Zhenliang Gan and Qichao Ying and Zhenxing Qian and Sheng Li and Xinpeng Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.00652},
year = {2024}
}