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Improved Steganographic Embedding Exploiting Modification Direction in Multimedia Communications

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Steganography provides secure communications over the Internet with a cover image. However, it is difficult to transfer many messages with small-sized images. We have improved EMD (Exploiting Modification Direction), proposed by Zhang and Wang, to solve this problem. In this paper, we have developed a (2n + 2-1)-ary scheme. Our scheme shows a higher embedding rate, R=log2(2n + 2-1)/n, which is greater than that of the EMD scheme, because the EMD scheme embedding rate is R=log2(2n+1)/n, for n>=2. The experimental results show that our scheme is able to embed twice as many secret bits in multimedia communications compared to the existing EMD embedding method. Our method has low complexity and achieves higher embedding performance with good perceptual quality against the earlier arts. An experiment verified our proposed data hiding method in multimedia communications.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-Dong, Gwangjin-Gu, Seoul, 143-747, Korea

    Cheonshik Kim, Dongkyoo Shin & Dongil Shin

  2. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, China

    Xinpeng Zhang

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 172 Gongreung 2-dong, Nowon-gu, 139-742, Seoul, Korea

    James J. Park

  2. Computer Science Department, E.T.S.I. Informatica, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29071, Malaga, Spain

    Javier Lopez

  3. Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, Daejeon, South Korea

    Sang-Soo Yeo

  4. College of Information Technology, Division of Information and Computer Engineering, Ajou University, San 5, Woncheon-Dong, Yeongton-Gu, Suwon, 443-749, Korea

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  5. Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Campus: Clayton Building/Room 63/130, Clayton, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    David Taniar

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Kim, C., Shin, D., Shin, D., Zhang, X. (2011). Improved Steganographic Embedding Exploiting Modification Direction in Multimedia Communications. In: Park, J.J., Lopez, J., Yeo, SS., Shon, T., Taniar, D. (eds) Secure and Trust Computing, Data Management and Applications. STA 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 186. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22339-6_16

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