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BBC++: Enhanced Block Boundary Continuity on Defining Non-Additive Distortion for JPEG Steganography

2020; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 31; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/tcsvt.2020.3010554

1558-2205

Yaofei Wang, Weixiang Li, Weiming Zhang, Xinzhi Yu, Kunlin Liu, Nenghai Yu,

Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption

Recently, Li et al. proposed an effective non-additive distortion model for JPEG steganography by preserving Block Boundary Continuity (BBC) in the spatial domain. However, the method based on BBC only explored how the modifications of DCT coefficient pairs at the same mode in adjacent blocks will impact on BBC. In this paper, we propose a method to enhance the BBC, called BBC++, by considering the mutual impact on the BBC from all DCT coefficients in adjacent blocks. To do that, we design updating strategies for both covers and costs in multi-round embedding processions. During the embedding, the cover is updated to repair the BBC after embedding and the corresponding costs are updated to keep the BBC from being destroyed in the next embedding. Experimental results show that the BBC++ can better maintain BBC and outperform previous non-additive distortion steganography when resisting modern JPEG steganalyzers.