Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2019, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 733-743.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2019.05.014

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Cover Selection Steganography Scheme Based on Image-to-Image Translation

LI Zonghan, LIU Jia, KE Yan, ZHANG Minqing, LUO Peng   

  1. College of Cryptographic Engineering, Engineering University of PAP, Xi'an 710086, China
  • Received:2019-07-27 Revised:2019-07-30 Online:2019-09-30 Published:2019-10-18

Abstract: To address the security risk in steganography algorithms using cover selection, an image-to-image translation steganography scheme based on cover selection is proposed. In the proposed scheme, the sender first selects the stego images from image libraries by the method of cover selection, then inputs the stego images into the cross-domain transformation model to get cross-domain images and transmits them to the receiver. Whereas the receiver receives the cross-domain images, and inputs them into the cross-domain transformation model to obtain stego images, then reversely converts them into secret information according to the mapping relation library. Experimental results show that the proposed method has significantly improvement in terms of capacity, anti-detection, and security.

Key words: image-to-image translation, cover selection, cover synthesis, image steganography

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