A new steganography algorithm based on video sparse representation

Abstract

Steganography has been a great interest since long time ago. There are a lot of methods that have been widely used since long past. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the use of sparse representation in signal processing. Sparse representation can efficiently model signals in different applications to facilitate processing. Much of the previous work was focused on image and audio sparse representation for steganography. In this paper, a new steganography scheme based on video sparse representation (VSR) is proposed. To exploit proper dictionary, KSVD algorithm is applied to DCT coefficients of Y component related to video (cover) frames. Both I and Q components of video frames are used for secure message insertion. The aim is to hide secret messages into non-zero coefficients of sparse representation of DCT called, I and Q video frames. Several experiments are performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, in case of some metrics such as pick signal to noise ratio (PSNR), the hiding ratio (HR), bit error rate (BER) and similarity (Sim) of secret message, and also runtime. The simulation results show that the proposed method exhibits appropriate invisibility and robustness.