Pixel-Stega: Generative Image Steganography Based on Autoregressive Models

12/21/2021
by   Siyu Zhang, et al.
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In this letter, we explored generative image steganography based on autoregressive models. We proposed Pixel-Stega, which implements pixel-level information hiding with autoregressive models and arithmetic coding algorithm. Firstly, one of the autoregressive models, PixelCNN++, is utilized to produce explicit conditional probability distribution of each pixel. Secondly, secret messages are encoded to the selection of pixels through steganographic sampling (stegosampling) based on arithmetic coding. We carried out qualitative and quantitative assessment on gray-scale and colour image datasets. Experimental results show that Pixel-Stega is able to embed secret messages adaptively according to the entropy of the pixels to achieve both high embedding capacity (up to 4.3 bpp) and nearly perfect imperceptibility (about 50 accuracy).

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