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Image steganography plays a vital role in securing secret data by embedding it in the cover images. Usually, these images are communicated in a compressed format. Existing techniques achieve this but have low embedding capacity. Enhancing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Rohit Agrawal , Kapil Ahuja

Image steganography is a procedure for hiding messages inside pictures. While other techniques such as cryptography aim to prevent adversaries from reading the secret message, steganography aims to hide the presence of the message itself.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Kevin Alex Zhang , Alfredo Cuesta-Infante , Lei Xu , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Most recent diffusion-based methods still show a large gap compared to non-diffusion methods for video frame interpolation, in both accuracy and efficiency. Most of them formulate the problem as a denoising procedure in latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yang Hai , Guo Wang , Tan Su , Wenjie Jiang , Yinlin Hu

As the multimedia and internet technologies are growing fast, the transmission of digital media plays an important role in communication. The various digital media like audio, video and images are being transferred through internet. There…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2010-04-13 P. Mohan Kumar , K. L. Shunmuganathan

The field of steganography has long been focused on developing methods to securely embed information within various digital media while ensuring imperceptibility and robustness. However, the growing sophistication of detection tools and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Waheed Rehman

The integration of Diffusion Models into Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is a substantial improvement in the detection of accidents. We present a novel hybrid model integrating guidance classification with diffusion techniques. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Siva Sai , Saksham Gupta , Vinay Chamola , Rajkumar Buyya

Image steganography is a technique of hiding secret information inside another image, so that the secret is not visible to human eyes and can be recovered when needed. Most of the existing image steganography methods have low hiding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Hang Yang , Yitian Xu , Xuhua Liu , Xiaodong Ma

We introduce nested diffusion models, an efficient and powerful hierarchical generative framework that substantially enhances the generation quality of diffusion models, particularly for images of complex scenes. Our approach employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiao Zhang , Ruoxi Jiang , Rebecca Willett , Michael Maire

Pseudo-healthy image inpainting is an essential preprocessing step for analyzing pathological brain MRI scans. Most current inpainting methods favor slice-wise 2D models for their high in-plane fidelity, but their independence across slices…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Dou Hoon Kwark , Shirui Luo , Xiyue Zhu , Yudu Li , Zhi-Pei Liang , Volodymyr Kindratenko

Robust invisible watermarking schemes aim to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark survives common manipulations. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques now pose a new threat to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Fan Guo , Jiyu Kang , Qi Ming , Emily Davis , Finn Carter

We introduce a new attack paradigm that embeds hidden adversarial capabilities directly into diffusion models via fine-tuning, without altering their observable behavior or requiring modifications during inference. Unlike prior approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lucas Beerens , Desmond J. Higham

With the rapid development of AIGC technologies, generative image steganography has attracted increasing attention due to its high imperceptibility and flexibility. However, existing generative steganography methods often maintain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Xue , Jiuan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Zhaoxia Yin

Diffusion models have attained impressive visual quality for image synthesis. However, how to interpret and manipulate the latent space of diffusion models has not been extensively explored. Prior work diffusion autoencoders encode the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Zeyu Lu , Chengyue Wu , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lei Bai , Yu Qiao , Xihui Liu

Data steganography aims to conceal information within visual content, yet existing spatial- and frequency-domain approaches suffer from trade-offs between security, capacity, and perceptual quality. Recent advances in generative models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Tianshuo Zhang , Gao Jia , Wenzhe Zhai , Rui Yann , Xianglei Xing

In this paper, the authors propose a new algorithm to hide data inside image using steganography technique. The proposed algorithm uses binary codes and pixels inside an image. The zipped file is used before it is converted to binary codes…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Rosziati Ibrahim , Teoh Suk Kuan

Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art in image generation, but their practical deployment is hindered by the significant computational cost of their iterative denoising process. While existing caching techniques can accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Mingyu Sung , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae-Mo Kang

LSB steganography is a one of the most widely used methods for implementing covert data channels in image file exchanges [1][2]. The low computational complexity and implementation simplicity of the algorithm are significant factors for its…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-06-09 James Collins , Sos Agaian

Generative diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in producing high-quality images. However, these models typically operate in continuous intensity spaces, diffusing independently across pixels and color channels. As a result,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Javier E. Santos , Agnese Marcato , Roman Colman , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

The existing image steganography methods either sequentially conceal secret images or conceal a concatenation of multiple images. In such ways, the interference of information among multiple images will become increasingly severe when the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zihan Chen , Tianrui Liu , Jun-Jie Huang , Wentao Zhao , Xing Bi , Meng Wang

Generative steganography is the process of hiding secret messages in generated images instead of cover images. Existing studies on generative steganography use GAN or Flow models to obtain high hiding message capacity and anti-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Daegyu Kim , Chaehun Shin , Jooyoung Choi , Dahuin Jung , Sungroh Yoon