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New Image Steganography via Secret-Fragment-Visible Mosaic Images by Nearly-Reversible Color Transformation

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2011)

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A new image steganography method is proposed, which creates automatically from an arbitrarily-selected target image a so-called secret-fragment-visible mosaic image as a camouflage of a given secret image. The mosaic image is yielded by dividing the secret image into fragments and transforming their color characteristics to be those of the blocks of the target image. Skillful techniques are designed for use in the color transformation process so that the secret image may be recovered nearly losslessly. The method not only creates a steganographic effect useful for secure keeping of secret images, but also provides a new way to solve the difficulty of hiding secret images with huge data volumes into target images. Good experimental results show the feasibility of the proposed method.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

    Ya-Lin Li

  2. Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

    Wen-Hsiang Tsai

  3. Department of Information Communication, Asia University, Taiwan

    Wen-Hsiang Tsai

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  1. University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA

    Song Wang

  6. HRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road, 90265-4797, Malibu, CA, USA

    Kim Kyungnam

  7. Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907-2021, IN, USA

    Bedrich Benes

  8. Sandia National Laboratory, 87185, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Kenneth Moreland

  9. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 70504, LA, USA

    Christoph Borst

  10. Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Stephen DiVerdi

  11. Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Chiang Yi-Jen

  12. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94551-0808, Livermore, CA, USA

    Jiang Ming

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Li, YL., Tsai, WH. (2011). New Image Steganography via Secret-Fragment-Visible Mosaic Images by Nearly-Reversible Color Transformation. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24031-7_7

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