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Image steganography is the technique of embedding secret information within images. The development of deep learning has led to significant advances in this field. However, existing methods often struggle to balance image quality, embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Abhinav Kumar , Pratham Singla , Aayan Yadav

Recent advances in computer vision and neural networks have made it possible for more surveillance videos to be automatically searched and analyzed by algorithms rather than humans. This happened in parallel with advances in edge computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Tarek Elgamal , Shu Shi , Varun Gupta , Rittwik Jana , Klara Nahrstedt

Semantic communication (SemCom) redefines wireless communication from reproducing symbols to transmitting task-relevant semantics. However, this AI-native architecture also introduces new vulnerabilities, as semantic failures may arise from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lan Zhang , Chengsi Liang , Zeming Zhuang , Yao Sun , Fang Fang , Xiaoyong Yuan , Dusit Niyato

Despite remarkable progress in steganography, embedding semantically rich, sentence-level information into carriers remains a challenging problem. In this work, we present a novel concept of Semantic Steganography, which aims to hide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Huanqi Wu , Huangbiao Xu , Runfeng Xie , Jiaxin Cai , Kaixin Zhang , Xiao Ke

Most video compression methods focus on human visual perception, neglecting semantic preservation. This leads to severe semantic loss during the compression, hampering downstream video analysis tasks. In this paper, we propose a Masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuan Tian , Xiaoyue Ling , Cong Geng , Qiang Hu , Guo Lu , Guangtao Zhai

In response to the rapid growth of global videomtraffic and the limitations of traditional wireless transmission systems, we propose a novel dual-stage vector quantization framework, VQ-DeepVSC, tailored to enhance video transmission over…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yongyi Miao , Zhongdang Li , Yang Wang , Die Hu , Jun Yan , Youfang Wang

Modern video codecs and learning-based approaches struggle for semantic reconstruction at extremely low bit-rates due to reliance on low-level spatiotemporal redundancies. Generative models, especially diffusion models, offer a new paradigm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Richeng Jin , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Learning-task oriented semantic communication is pivotal in optimizing transmission efficiency by extracting and conveying essential semantics tailored to specific tasks, such as image reconstruction and classification. Nevertheless, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Lingyi Wang , Wei Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Zhijin Qin , Qihui Wu

Steganography and Cryptography are two popular ways of sending vital information in a secret way. One hides the existence of the message and the other distorts the message itself. There are many cryptography techniques available; among them…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-09-16 Dipti Kapoor Sarmah , Neha Bajpai

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

Recent developments in machine learning (ML) techniques enable users to extract, transmit, and reproduce information semantics via ML-based semantic communication (SemCom). This significantly increases network spectral efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Guhan Zheng , Qiang Ni , Aryan Kaushik , Lixia Yang , Yushi Wang , Charilaos Zarakovitis

Image steganography can hide information in a host image and obtain a stego image that is perceptually indistinguishable from the original one. This technique has tremendous potential in scenarios like copyright protection, information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Huayuan Ye , Shenzhuo Zhang , Shiqi Jiang , Jing Liao , Shuhang Gu , Dejun Zheng , Changbo Wang , Chenhui Li

Semantic communications could improve the transmission efficiency significantly by exploring the semantic information. In this paper, we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin

We propose a novel deep architecture, SegNet, for semantic pixel wise image labelling. SegNet has several attractive properties; (i) it only requires forward evaluation of a fully learnt function to obtain smooth label predictions, (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Vijay Badrinarayanan , Ankur Handa , Roberto Cipolla

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving unprecedented communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to extract and transmit the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianhao Huang , Qunsong Zeng , Hongyang Du , Kaibin Huang

In the face of escalating surveillance and censorship within the cyberspace, the sanctity of personal privacy has come under siege, necessitating the development of steganography, which offers a way to securely hide messages within…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Minhao Bai , Jinshuai Yang , Kaiyi Pang , Yongfeng Huang , Yue Gao

With the continuous increase in the number and resolution of video surveillance cameras, the burden of transmitting and storing surveillance video is growing. Traditional communication methods based on Shannon's theory are facing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Baoping Cheng , Yukun Zhang , Liming Wang , Xiaoyan Xie , Tao Fu , Dongkun Wang , Xiaoming Tao

Traditional video steganography methods are based on modifying the covert space for embedding, whereas we propose an innovative approach that embeds secret message within semantic feature for steganography during the video editing process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xueying Mao , Xiaoxiao Hu , Wanli Peng , Zhenliang Gan , Qichao Ying , Zhenxing Qian , Sheng Li , Xinpeng Zhang

In this paper, we propose a cross-layer encrypted semantic communication (CLESC) framework for panoramic video transmission, incorporating feature extraction, encoding, encryption, cyclic redundancy check (CRC), and retransmission processes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Haixiao Gao , Mengying Sun , Xiaodong Xu , Bingxuan Xu , Shujun Han , Bizhu Wang , Sheng Jiang , Chen Dong , Ping Zhang

Network steganography and covert communication channels have been studied extensively in the past. However, prior works offer minimal practical use for their proposed techniques and are limited to specific use cases and network protocols.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sirus Shahini , Robert Ricci