A Joint Source-Channel Coding Scheme for Image-in-Image Data Hiding

K. Solanki, O. Dabeer, B. S. Manjunath, U. Madhow, and S. Chandrasekaran
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Email: {solanki, onkar, manj, madhow, shiv} @ece.ucsb.edu

Abstract

We consider the problem of hiding images in images. In addition to the usual design constraints such as imperceptible host degrada-tion and robustness in presence of variety of attacks, we impose the condition that the quality of the recovered signature image should be better if the attack is milder. We present a simple hybrid analog-digital hiding technique for this purpose. The signature image is compressed efficiently (using JPEG) into a sequence of bits, which is hidden using a previously proposed digital hiding scheme. The residual error between the original and compressed signature im-age is then hidden using an analog hiding scheme. The results show (perceptual as well as mean-square error) improvement as the attack becomes milder.
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K. Solanki, O. Dabeer, B. S. Manjunath, U. Madhow and Shiv Chandrasekaran,
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 2, pp. 743-746, Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 2003.
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