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Exploiting error control in matrix coding-based data hiding over lossy channel

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A steganographic scheme, matrix coding-based data hiding (MCDH), is constructed from covering function to enhance embedding efficiency, and, meanwhile, decrease the required changed bits. However, the MCDH may be compromised when using it as steganography over lossy channel. In this paper, we consider the so-called error spreading problem that one-bit error in MCDH may give rise to multi-bit errors when extracting the hidden data. In this paper, we present new MCDH to overcome error spreading problem based on constant weight code. Our new approach uses small lookup table to reduce embedding/extracting complexity. Experimental results demonstrate a better performance than previously proposed MCDHs in terms of spreading errors against lossy channel.

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This work was supported in part by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), under Grant 1072221E259007. This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by (2012R1A1A2002345, 2015R1D1A1A01059253), and was supported under the framework of international cooperation program managed by NRF (2016K2A9A2A05005255).

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

    Ching-Nung Yang & Yung-Shun Chou

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, XI’AN University of Technology, Xi’an, China

    Yanxiao Liu

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Cheonshik Kim

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Yang, CN., Chou, YS., Liu, Y. et al. Exploiting error control in matrix coding-based data hiding over lossy channel. J Real-Time Image Proc 16, 577–588 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-018-0829-1

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