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A reversible video steganography algorithm for MVC based on motion vector

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In this paper we present a reversible video steganography scheme for hiding secret data into the motion vector of each block in 3D MVC videos. Under this approach the idea of the inner product is introduced to achieve reversibility. By establishing the inner product between the motion vector and the modulation vector and setting the embedding conditions, we embed 1 bit data into each motion vector and the proposed algorithm is reversible. Moreover, in order to avoid distortion drift, we only embed data into b4-frames with the coding feature of 3D MVC videos. Experimental results also confirm that the proposed scheme can provide expected acceptable video quality of stegovideos and successfully achieve reversibility.

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The authors would sincerely like to thank the anonymous reviewers of the paper for several insightful comments. They also thank the editor Ms. Angie Malanday for her efforts in revising the paper. The work described in this paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant (Name: Research on Steganography for 3D H.264 Video Streams without Intra-frame Distortion Drift. No: 61272407).

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Guanghua Song, Zhitang Li, Juan Zhao, Jun Hu & Hao Tu

  2. Network and Computing Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Zhitang Li & Hao Tu

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Song, G., Li, Z., Zhao, J. et al. A reversible video steganography algorithm for MVC based on motion vector. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 3759–3782 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1798-9

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