Data Hiding in Motion Vectors of Compressed Video Based on Their Associated Prediction Error

被引:104
作者
Aly, Hussein A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Minist Def, MTC, Cairo, Egypt
关键词
Data hiding; motion vectors; Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG); steganography;
D O I
10.1109/TIFS.2010.2090520
中图分类号
TP301 [理论、方法];
学科分类号
081202 ;
摘要
This paper deals with data hiding in compressed video. Unlike data hiding in images and raw video which operates on the images themselves in the spatial or transformed domain which are vulnerable to steganalysis, we target the motion vectors used to encode and reconstruct both the forward predictive (P)-frame and bidirectional (B)-frames in compressed video. The choice of candidate subset of these motion vectors are based on their associated macroblock prediction error, which is different from the approaches based on the motion vector attributes such as the magnitude and phase angle, etc. A greedy adaptive threshold is searched for every frame to achieve robustness while maintaining a low prediction error level. The secret message bitstream is embedded in the least significant bit of both components of the candidate motion vectors. The method is implemented and tested for hiding data in natural sequences of multiple groups of pictures and the results are evaluated. The evaluation is based on two criteria: minimum distortion to the reconstructed video and minimum overhead on the compressed video size. Based on the aforementioned criteria, the proposed method is found to perform well and is compared to a motion vector attribute-based method from the literature.
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页码:14 / 18
页数:5
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