This paper proposes an artificial intelligence-based robust information hiding algorithm to address the issue of confidential information being susceptible to noise attacks during transmission. The algorithm we designed aims to mitigate the impact of various noise attacks on the integrity of secret information during transmission. The method we propose involves encoding secret images into stylized encrypted images and applies adversarial transfer to both the style and content features of the original and embedded data. This process effectively enhances the concealment and imperceptibility of confidential information, thereby improving the security of such information during transmission and reducing security risks. Furthermore, we have designed a specialized attack layer to simulate real-world attacks and common noise scenarios encountered in practical environments. Through adversarial training, the algorithm is strengthened to enhance its resilience against attacks and overall robustness, ensuring better protection against potential threats. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm successfully enhances the concealment and unknowability of secret information while maintaining embedding capacity. Additionally, it ensures the quality and fidelity of the stego image. The method we propose not only improves the security and robustness of information hiding technology but also holds practical application value in protecting sensitive data and ensuring the invisibility of confidential information.

Among steganalysis techniques, detection against MV (motion vector) domain-based video steganography in the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) standard remains a challenging issue. For the purpose of improving the detection performance, this paper proposes a steganalysis method that can perfectly detect MV-based steganography in HEVC. Firstly, we define the local optimality of MVP (Motion Vector Prediction) based on the technology of AMVP (Advanced Motion Vector Prediction). Secondly, we analyze that in HEVC video, message embedding either using MVP index or MVD (Motion Vector Difference) may destroy the above optimality of MVP. And then, we define the optimal rate of MVP as a steganalysis feature. Finally, we conduct steganalysis detection experiments on two general datasets for three popular steganography methods and compare the performance with four state-of-the-art steganalysis methods. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed feature set. Furthermore, our method stands out for its practical applicability, requiring no model training and exhibiting low computational complexity, making it a viable solution for real-world scenarios.

Traditional steganography conceals information by modifying cover data, but steganalysis tools easily detect such alterations. While deep learning-based steganography often involves high training costs and complex deployment. Diffusion model-based methods face security vulnerabilities, particularly due to potential information leakage during generation. We propose a fixed neural network image steganography framework based on secure diffusion models to address these challenges. Unlike conventional approaches, our method minimizes cover modifications through neural network optimization, achieving superior steganographic performance in human visual perception and computer vision analyses. The cover images are generated in an anime style using state-of-the-art diffusion models, ensuring the transmitted images appear more natural. This study introduces fixed neural network technology that allows senders to transmit only minimal critical information alongside stego-images. Recipients can accurately reconstruct secret images using this compact data, significantly reducing transmission overhead compared to conventional deep steganography. Furthermore, our framework innovatively integrates ElGamal, a cryptographic algorithm, to protect critical information during transmission, enhancing overall system security and ensuring end-to-end information protection. This dual optimization of payload reduction and cryptographic reinforcement establishes a new paradigm for secure and efficient image steganography.

Deep steganography utilizes the powerful capabilities of deep neural networks to embed and extract messages, but its reliance on an additional message extractor limits its practical use due to the added suspicion it can raise from steganalyzers. To address this problem, we propose StegaINR, which utilizes Implicit Neural Representation (INR) to implement steganography. StegaINR embeds a secret function into a stego function, which serves as both the message extractor and the stego medium for secure transmission on a public channel. Recipients only need to use a shared key to recover the secret function from the stego function, allowing them to obtain the secret message. Our approach employs continuous functions, enabling it to handle various types of messages. To our knowledge, this is the first work to introduce INR into steganography. We perform evaluations on image, climate data, and Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) synthetic dataset to test our method in different deployment contexts.

Until now, some reversible data hiding in encrypted images (RDH-EI) schemes based on secret sharing (SIS-RDHEI) still have the problems of not realizing diffusivity and high embedding capacity. Therefore, this paper innovatively proposes a high capacity RDH-EI scheme that combines adaptive most significant bit (MSB) prediction with secret sharing technology. Firstly, adaptive MSB prediction is performed on the original image and cryptographic feedback secret sharing strategy encrypts the spliced pixels to spare embedding space. In the data hiding phase, each encrypted image is sent to a data hider to embed the secret information independently. When r copies of the image carrying the secret text are collected, the original image can be recovered lossless and the secret information can be extracted. Performance evaluation shows that the proposed method in this paper has the diffusivity, reversibility, and separability. The last but the most important, it has higher embedding capacity. For 512 × 512 grayscale images, the average embedding rate reaches 4.7358 bits per pixel (bpp). Compared to the average embedding rate that can be achieved by the Wang et al.’s SIS-RDHEI scheme, the proposed scheme with (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4), (3, 4), and (3, 5)-threshold can increase by 0.7358 bpp, 2.0658 bpp, 2.7358 bpp, 0.7358 bpp, and 1.5358 bpp, respectively.

Recently proposed steganalysis methods based on the local optimality of motion vector prediction (MVP) indicate that the existing HEVC (high efficiency video coding) motion vector (MV) domain video steganography algorithms can disturb the optimality of MVP in advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) technology. In order to improve the security of steganography algorithm, this paper proposes an MV domain steganography method in HEVC based on MVP’s index and motion vector difference (MVD). First, we analyze the conditions that need to be met for steganography to resist attacks from MVP’s optimality features and other traditional steganalysis features. Then, a distortion function for minimizing embedding distortion is designed, and an algorithm for secret message embedding and extraction in units of inter-frame is proposed. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can resist attacks based on the optimality of MVP and also has high security against other traditional steganalysis methods. In addition, the proposed algorithm has excellent performance in visual quality and coding efficiency, and can be applied to practical scenarios of video covert communication.