Information-Theoretic Limits for Steganography in Multimedia

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Autores principales: El-Arsh, Hassan Y., Abdelaziz, Amr, Elliethy, Ahmed, Aly, Hussein A.
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Publicado: 2021
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author El-Arsh, Hassan Y.
Abdelaziz, Amr
Elliethy, Ahmed
Aly, Hussein A.
author_facet El-Arsh, Hassan Y.
Abdelaziz, Amr
Elliethy, Ahmed
Aly, Hussein A.
contents Steganography is the art and science of hiding data within innocent-looking objects (cover objects). Multimedia objects such as images and videos are an attractive type of cover objects due to their high embedding rates. There exist many techniques for performing steganography in both the literature and the practical world. Meanwhile, the definition of the steganographic capacity for multimedia and how to be calculated has not taken full attention. In this paper, for multivariate quantized-Gaussian-distributed multimedia, we study the maximum achievable embedding rate with respect to the statistical properties of cover objects against the maximum achievable performance by any steganalytic detector. Toward this goal, we evaluate the maximum allowed entropy of the hidden message source subject to the maximum probability of error of the steganalytic detector which is bounded by the KL-divergence between the statistical distributions for the cover and the stego objects. We give the exact scaling constant that governs the relationship between the entropies of the hidden message and the cover object.
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spellingShingle Information-Theoretic Limits for Steganography in Multimedia
El-Arsh, Hassan Y.
Abdelaziz, Amr
Elliethy, Ahmed
Aly, Hussein A.
Cryptography and Security
Information Theory
Steganography is the art and science of hiding data within innocent-looking objects (cover objects). Multimedia objects such as images and videos are an attractive type of cover objects due to their high embedding rates. There exist many techniques for performing steganography in both the literature and the practical world. Meanwhile, the definition of the steganographic capacity for multimedia and how to be calculated has not taken full attention. In this paper, for multivariate quantized-Gaussian-distributed multimedia, we study the maximum achievable embedding rate with respect to the statistical properties of cover objects against the maximum achievable performance by any steganalytic detector. Toward this goal, we evaluate the maximum allowed entropy of the hidden message source subject to the maximum probability of error of the steganalytic detector which is bounded by the KL-divergence between the statistical distributions for the cover and the stego objects. We give the exact scaling constant that governs the relationship between the entropies of the hidden message and the cover object.
title Information-Theoretic Limits for Steganography in Multimedia
topic Cryptography and Security
Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04960