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In this letter, we explored generative image steganography based on autoregressive models. We proposed Pixel-Stega, which implements pixel-level information hiding with autoregressive models and arithmetic coding algorithm. Firstly, one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Siyu Zhang , Zhongliang Yang , Haoqin Tu , Jinshuai Yang , Yongfeng Huang

Recent advances in generative AI have opened promising avenues for steganography, which can securely protect sensitive information for individuals operating in hostile environments, such as journalists, activists, and whistleblowers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Aqib Mahfuz , Georgia Channing , Mark van der Wilk , Philip Torr , Fabio Pizzati , Christian Schroeder de Witt

The rapid development of image generation models has facilitated the widespread dissemination of generated images on social networks, creating favorable conditions for provably secure image steganography. However, existing methods face…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yuang Qi , Kejiang Chen , Na Zhao , Zijin Yang , Weiming Zhang

The recent wave of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has dramatically increased our text-based image generation abilities. These models can generate realistic images for a staggering variety of prompts and exhibit impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alexander C. Li , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shivam Duggal , Ellis Brown , Deepak Pathak

Whereas cryptography easily arouses attacks by means of encrypting a secret message into a suspicious form, steganography is advantageous for its resilience to attacks by concealing the message in an innocent-looking cover signal. Minimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Kejiang Chen , Hang Zhou , Yaofei Wang , Menghan Li , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Image steganography is the process of hiding secret data in a cover image by subtle perturbation. Recent studies show that it is feasible to use a fixed neural network for data embedding and extraction. Such Fixed Neural Network…

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The task of steel surface defect recognition is an industrial problem with great industry values. The data insufficiency is the major challenge in training a robust defect recognition network. Existing methods have investigated to enlarge…

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Semantic communication (SemCom), as a novel paradigm for future communication systems, has recently attracted much attention due to its superiority in communication efficiency. However, similar to traditional communication, it also suffers…

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Traditional image steganography focuses on concealing one image within another, aiming to avoid steganalysis by unauthorized entities. Coverless image steganography (CIS) enhances imperceptibility by not using any cover image. Recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yiwei Yang , Zheyuan Liu , Jun Jia , Zhongpai Gao , Yunhao Li , Wei Sun , Xiaohong Liu , Guangtao Zhai

Current image steganography techniques are mainly focused on cover-based methods, which commonly have the risk of leaking secret images and poor robustness against degraded container images. Inspired by recent developments in diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Jiwen Yu , Xuanyu Zhang , Youmin Xu , Jian Zhang

Conditional generative models typically demand large annotated training sets to achieve high-quality synthesis. As a result, there has been significant interest in designing models that perform plug-and-play generation, i.e., to use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Anoop Cherian , Suhas Lohit , Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Vishal M. Patel , Tim K. Marks

The art of information hiding has been around nearly as long as the need for covert communication. Steganography, the concealing of information, arose early on as an extremely useful method for covert information transmission. Steganography…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Bhavana S. , K. L. Sudha

Image steganography is the art of hiding secret message in grayscale or color images. Easy detection of secret message for any state-of-art image steganography can break the stego system. To prevent the breakdown of the stego system data is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Soumendu Chakraborty , Anand Singh Jalal , Charul Bhatnagar

Acquiring high-quality data for training discriminative models is a crucial yet challenging aspect of building effective predictive systems. In this paper, we present Diffusion Inversion, a simple yet effective method that leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yongchao Zhou , Hshmat Sahak , Jimmy Ba

Nowadays, there are plenty of works introducing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to the steganalysis and exceeding conventional steganalysis algorithms. These works have shown the improving potential of deep learning in information…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Ru Zhang , Shiqi Dong , Jianyi Liu

Diffusion models are the current state-of-the-art in image generation, synthesizing high-quality images by breaking down the generation process into many fine-grained denoising steps. Despite their good performance, diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Noam Elata , Bahjat Kawar , Tomer Michaeli , Michael Elad

Steganography is the science of hiding a secret message within an ordinary public message. Over the years, steganography has been used to encode a lower resolution image into a higher resolution image by simple methods like LSB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Abhishek Das , Japsimar Singh Wahi , Mansi Anand , Yugant Rana

Image steganography is the art of concealing secret information in images in a way that is imperceptible to unauthorized parties. Recent advances show that is possible to use a fixed neural network (FNN) for secret embedding and extraction.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zicong Luo , Sheng Li , Guobiao Li , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

Generative steganography (GS) directly generates stego-media through secret message-driven generation. It makes the hiding capacity of GS higher than that of traditional steganography, as well as more resistant to classical steganalysis.…

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Steganographic schemes dedicated to generated images modify the seed vector in the latent space to embed a message. Whereas most steganalysis methods attempt to detect the embedding in the image space, this paper proposes to perform…

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