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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

Linguistic steganography provides convenient implementation to hide messages, particularly with the emergence of AI generation technology. The potential abuse of this technology raises security concerns within societies, calling for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Minhao Bai. Jinshuai Yang , Kaiyi Pang , Huili Wang , Yongfeng Huang

Latent space is one of the key concepts in generative AI, offering powerful means for creative exploration through vector manipulation. However, diffusion models like Stable Diffusion lack the intuitive latent vector control found in GANs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhihua Zhong , Xuanyang Huang

In the ever-expanding digital landscape, safeguarding sensitive information remains paramount. This paper delves deep into digital protection, specifically focusing on steganography. While prior research predominantly fixated on individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Quang Nguyen , Truong Vu , Cuong Pham , Anh Tran , Khoi Nguyen

Deep learning methods have impacted almost every research field, demonstrating notable successes in medical imaging tasks such as denoising and super-resolution. However, the prerequisite for deep learning is data at scale, but data sharing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang

Steganography is the art and science of hiding secret messages in public communication so that the presence of the secret messages cannot be detected. There are two distribution-preserving steganographic frameworks, one is sampling-based…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Kejiang Chen , Hang Zhou , Hanqing Zhao , Dongdong Chen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Data security is of the utmost concern of a communication system. Since the early days, many developments have been made to improve the performance of the system. PSNR of the received signal, secure transmission channel, quality of encoding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Venkatesh Subramaniyan , Vignesh Sivakumar , A. K. Vagheesan , S. Sakthivelan , K. J. Jegadish Kumar , K. K. Nagarajan

The rapid advancement in image generation models has predominantly been driven by diffusion models, which have demonstrated unparalleled success in generating high-fidelity, diverse images from textual prompts. Despite their success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yusuf Dalva , Hidir Yesiltepe , Pinar Yanardag

The rapid expansion of generative AI has normalized large-scale synthetic media creation, enabling new forms of covert communication. Recent generative steganography methods, particularly those based on diffusion models, can embed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Vladimir Frants , Sos Agaian

The rapid growth of generative AI has introduced new challenges in content moderation and digital forensics. In particular, benign AI-generated images can be paired with harmful or misleading text, creating difficult-to-detect misuse. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinlei Guan , David Arosemena , Tejaswi Dhandu , Kuan Huang , Meng Xu , Miles Q. Li , Bingyu Shen , Ruiyang Qin , Umamaheswara Rao Tida , Boyang Li

Recently, stable diffusion (SD) models have typically flourished in the field of image synthesis and personalized editing, with a range of photorealistic and unprecedented images being successfully generated. As a result, widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Zhiyuan Ma , Guoli Jia , Biqing Qi , Bowen Zhou

For as long as humans have participated in the act of communication, concealing information in those communicative mediums has manifested into an art of its own. Crytographic messages, through written language or images, are a means of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Nibraas Khan , Ruj Haan , George Boktor , Michael McComas , Ramin Daneshi

Text-to-image models have recently made significant advances in generating realistic and semantically coherent images, driven by advanced diffusion models and large-scale web-crawled datasets. However, these datasets often contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Byeonghu Na , Mina Kang , Jiseok Kwak , Minsang Park , Jiwoo Shin , SeJoon Jun , Gayoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Il-Chul Moon

Steganography is the process of embedding secret information discreetly within a carrier, ensuring secure exchange of confidential data. The Adaptive Pixel Value Differencing (APVD) steganography method, while effective, encounters certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mehrab Hosain , Rajiv Kapoor

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

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

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), generative linguistic steganography has become a prevalent technique for hiding information within model-generated texts. However, traditional steganography methods struggle to effectively align…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Minhao Bai , Jinshuai Yang , Kaiyi Pang , Yongfeng Huang , Yue Gao

Text-conditioned image generation models have recently achieved astonishing results in image quality and text alignment and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. Since they are highly data-driven, relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Patrick Schramowski , Manuel Brack , Björn Deiseroth , Kristian Kersting

Secure covert communication in hostile environments requires simultaneously achieving invisibility, provable security guarantees, and robustness against informed adversaries. This paper presents a novel hybrid steganographic framework that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Obinna Omego , Michal Bosy

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yunyi Ni , Finn Carter , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang