Provably Secure Robust Image Steganography via Cross-Modal Error Correction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12206v1
• Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:10:10 GMT
• Title: Provably Secure Robust Image Steganography via Cross-Modal Error Correction
• Authors: Yuang Qi, Kejiang Chen, Na Zhao, Zijin Yang, Weiming Zhang,
• Abstract summary: We propose a high-quality, provably secure, and robust image steganography method based on state-of-the-art autoregressive (AR) image generation models. We employ a cross-modal error-correction framework that generates stego text from stego images to aid in restoring lossy images.
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• Abstract: The rapid development of image generation models has facilitated the widespread dissemination of generated images on social networks, creating favorable conditions for provably secure image steganography. However, existing methods face issues such as low quality of generated images and lack of semantic control in the generation process. To leverage provably secure steganography with more effective and high-performance image generation models, and to ensure that stego images can accurately extract secret messages even after being uploaded to social networks and subjected to lossy processing such as JPEG compression, we propose a high-quality, provably secure, and robust image steganography method based on state-of-the-art autoregressive (AR) image generation models using Vector-Quantized (VQ) tokenizers. Additionally, we employ a cross-modal error-correction framework that generates stego text from stego images to aid in restoring lossy images, ultimately enabling the extraction of secret messages embedded within the images. Extensive experiments have demonstrated that the proposed method provides advantages in stego quality, embedding capacity, and robustness, while ensuring provable undetectability.

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