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High-capacity image steganography, aimed at concealing a secret image in a cover image, is a technique to preserve sensitive data, e.g., faces and fingerprints. Previous methods focus on the security during transmission and subsequently run…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Jiabao Cui , Pengyi Zhang , Songyuan Li , Liangli Zheng , Cuizhu Bao , Jupeng Xia , Xi Li

Finding meaningful representations and distances of hierarchical data is important in many fields. This paper presents a new method for hierarchical data embedding and distance. Our method relies on combining diffusion geometry, a central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ya-Wei Eileen Lin , Ronald R. Coifman , Gal Mishne , Ronen Talmon

Performance indicators characterizing modern steganographic techniques include capacity (i.e. the quantity of data that can be hidden in the cover medium), stego quality (i.e. artifacts visibility), security (i.e. undetectability), and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Alan Anwer Abdulla , Sabah A. Jassim , Harin Sellahewa

Generative image steganography is a technique that conceals secret messages within generated images, without relying on pre-existing cover images. Recently, a number of diffusion model-based generative image steganography (DM-GIS) methods…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jihao Zhu , Zixuan Chen , Jiali Liu , Lingxiao Yang , Yi Zhou , Weiqi Luo , Xiaohua Xie

Digital steganography is becoming a common tool for protecting sensitive communications in various applications such as crime(terrorism) prevention whereby law enforcing personals need to remotely compare facial images captured at the scene…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Alan A. Abdulla , Harin Sellahewa , Sabah A. Jassim

Recent work (Baluja, 2017) showed that using a pair of deep encoders and decoders, embedding a full-size secret image into a container image of the same size is achieved. This method distributes the information of the secret image across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Parisa Babaheidarian , Mark Wallace

Digital steganography or data hiding has emerged as a new area of research in connection to the communication in secured channel as well as intellectual property protection for multimedia signals. The redundancy in image representation can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Tirtha sankar Das , Ayan K. Sau , V. H. Mankar , Subir K. Sarkar

Deep image steganography is a data hiding technology that conceal data in digital images via deep neural networks. However, existing deep image steganography methods only consider the visual similarity of container images to host images,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yanzhen Ren , Ting Liu , Liming Zhai , Lina Wang

Diffusion Model (DM) based Semantic Image Communication (SIC) systems face significant challenges, such as slow inference speed and generation randomness, that limit their reliability and practicality. To overcome these issues, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Bilal Khalid , Pedro Freire , Sergei K. Turitsyn , Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky

This paper presents a robust image encryption and key distribution framework that integrates an enhanced AES-128 algorithm with chaos theory and advanced steganographic techniques for dual-layer security. The encryption engine features a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Md Rishadul Bayesh , Dabbrata Das , Md Ahadullah

Recent advancements in image synthesis are fueled by the advent of large-scale diffusion models. Yet, integrating realistic object visualizations seamlessly into new or existing backgrounds without extensive training remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Phillip Mueller , Jannik Wiese , Ioan Craciun , Lars Mikelsons

To provide an added security level most of the existing reversible as well as irreversible image steganography schemes emphasize on encrypting the secret image (payload) before embedding it to the cover image. The complexity of encryption…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Soumendu Chakraborty , Anand Singh Jalal , Charul Bhatnagar

Steganography is a technique to hide the presence of secret communication. When one of the communication elements is under the influence of the enemy, it can be used. The main measure to evaluate steganography methods in a certain capacity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Hanieh Rafiee , Mojtaba Mahdavi , AhmadReza NaghshNilchi

Watermarking generative content serves as a vital tool for authentication, ownership protection, and mitigation of potential misuse. Existing watermarking methods face the challenge of balancing robustness and concealment. They empirically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Huayang Huang , Yu Wu , Qian Wang

Security and memory management are the major demands for electronics devices like ipods, cell phones, pmps, iphones and digital cameras. In this paper, we have suggested a high level of security mechanism by considering the concept of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-11-05 Rajesh Kumar Tiwari , Gadadhar Sahoo

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

Image tiling -- the seamless connection of disparate images to create a coherent visual field -- is crucial for applications such as texture creation, video game asset development, and digital art. Traditionally, tiles have been constructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Or Madar , Ohad Fried

Multi-image hiding, which embeds multiple secret images into a cover image and is able to recover these images with high quality, has gradually become a research hotspot in the field of image steganography. However, due to the need to embed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Weina Dong , Jia Liu , Lifeng Chen , Wenquan Sun , Xiaozhong Pan , Yan Ke

Information security is one of the most challenging problems in today's technological world. In order to secure the transmission of secret data over the public network (Internet), various schemes have been presented over the last decade.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Khan Muhammad , Jamil Ahmad , Muhammad Sajjad , Muhammad Zubair

Diffusion-based image compression methods have achieved notable progress, delivering high perceptual quality at low bitrates. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant inference latency and heavy computational overhead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiwen Jia , Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Chenyang Ge