Shackled Dancing: A Bit-Locked Diffusion Algorithm for Lossless and Controllable Image Steganography

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10950v1
• Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 07:38:58 GMT
• Title: Shackled Dancing: A Bit-Locked Diffusion Algorithm for Lossless and Controllable Image Steganography
• Authors: Tianshuo Zhang, Gao Jia, Wenzhe Zhai, Rui Yann, Xianglei Xing,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Shackled Dancing Diffusion, or SD$2$, a plug-and-play generative steganography method.<n>It combines bit-position locking with diffusion sampling injection to enable controllable information embedding within the generative trajectory.<n>Our method achieves a favorable balance between randomness and constraint, enhancing robustness against steganalysis without compromising image fidelity.
• Score: 2.8760886020131657
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Data steganography aims to conceal information within visual content, yet existing spatial- and frequency-domain approaches suffer from trade-offs between security, capacity, and perceptual quality. Recent advances in generative models, particularly diffusion models, offer new avenues for adaptive image synthesis, but integrating precise information embedding into the generative process remains challenging. We introduce Shackled Dancing Diffusion, or SD$^2$, a plug-and-play generative steganography method that combines bit-position locking with diffusion sampling injection to enable controllable information embedding within the generative trajectory. SD$^2$ leverages the expressive power of diffusion models to synthesize diverse carrier images while maintaining full message recovery with $100\%$ accuracy. Our method achieves a favorable balance between randomness and constraint, enhancing robustness against steganalysis without compromising image fidelity. Extensive experiments show that SD$^2$ substantially outperforms prior methods in security, embedding capacity, and stability. This algorithm offers new insights into controllable generation and opens promising directions for secure visual communication.

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