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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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Song Gao , Rui Meng , Xiaodong Xu , Haixiao Gao , Yiming Liu , Chenyuan Feng , Ping Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Dusit Niyato

Generative image modeling enables a wide range of applications but raises ethical concerns about responsible deployment. This paper introduces an active strategy combining image watermarking and Latent Diffusion Models. The goal is for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Pierre Fernandez , Guillaume Couairon , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze , Teddy Furon

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

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

Image steganography is the art and science of using images as cover for covert communications. With the development of neural networks, traditional image steganography is more likely to be detected by deep learning-based steganalysis. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Donghui Hu , Yu Zhang , Cong Yu , Jian Wang , Yaofei Wang

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

This paper proposes PRoADS, a provably secure and robust audio steganographic framework based on audio diffusion models. As a generative steganography scheme, PRoADS embeds secret messages into the initial noise of diffusion models via…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 YongPeng Yan , Yanan Li , Qiyang Xiao , Yanzhen Ren

In this paper, a novel strategy of Secure Steganograpy based on Generative Adversarial Networks is proposed to generate suitable and secure covers for steganography. The proposed architecture has one generative network, and two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Haichao Shi , Jing Dong , Wei Wang , Yinlong Qian , Xiaoyu Zhang

Steganography is a technique for covert communication between two parties. With the rapid development of deep neural networks (DNN), more and more steganographic networks are proposed recently, which are shown to be promising to achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Guobiao Li , Sheng Li , Meiling Li , Xinpeng Zhang , Zhenxing Qian

With the rapid development of generative AI, image steganography has garnered widespread attention due to its unique concealment. Recent studies have demonstrated the practical advantages of Fixed Neural Network Steganography (FNNS),…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yu Cheng , Jiuan Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Zhaoxia Yin , Xinpeng Zhang

Steganography algorithms facilitate communication between a source and a destination in a secret manner. This is done by embedding messages/text/data into images without impacting the appearance of the resultant images/videos. Steganalysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Color image steganography based on deep learning is the art of hiding information in the color image. Among them, image hiding steganography(hiding image with image) has attracted much attention in recent years because of its great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Hai Su , Shan Yang , Shuqing Zhang , Songsen Yu

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

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden messages into images such that they survive various manipulations while remaining imperceptible. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing models now enable realistic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenkai Fu , Finn Carter , Yue Wang , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Digital image steganalysis, or the detection of image steganography, has been studied in depth for years and is driven by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups', such as APT37 Reaper, utilization of steganographic techniques to transmit…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Isaac Corley , Jonathan Lwowski , Justin Hoffman

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 need to protect sensitive information privacy duringinformation exchange over the internet/intranet has led towider adoption of cryptography and steganography. The cryptography approaches convert the information into an unreadable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Idakwo M. A. , Muazu M. B. , Adedokun A. E. , Sadiq B. O

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable a wide range of applications but raise ethical concerns regarding illegal utilization. Adding watermarks to generative model outputs is a vital technique employed for copyright tracking and mitigating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Liangqi Lei , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu

Conventional covert image communication is assumed to transmit the message, in the securest way possible for a given payload, over lossless channels, and the associated steganographic schemes are generally vulnerable to active attacks,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Qingliang Liu , Jiangqun Ni , Weizhe Zhang , Xiangyang Luo , Jiwu Huang

Steganography, as one of the three basic information security systems, has long played an important role in safeguarding the privacy and confidentiality of data in cyberspace. Audio is one of the most common means of information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Zhongliang Yang , Xingjian Du , Yilin Tan , Yongfeng Huang , Yu-Jin Zhang