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Diffusion-Stego: Training-free diffusion generative steganography via message projection
Generative steganography is the process of hiding secret messages in generated images instead of cover images. Existing studies on generative steganography use GAN or Flow models to obtain high hiding message capacity and anti-detection ability over cover images. However, they create relatively unrealistic stego images because of the inherent limitations of generative models. We propose Diffusion-Stego, a generative steganography approach based on diffusion models that outperform other generative models in image generation. Diffusion-Stego projects secret messages into the latent noise of diffusion models and generates stego images with an iterative denoising process. Since the naive hiding of secret messages into noise boosts visual degradation and decreases extracted message accuracy, we introduce message projection, which hides messages into noise space while addressing these issues. We suggest three options for message projection to adjust the trade-off between extracted message accuracy, anti-detection ability, and image quality. Diffusion-Stego is a training-free approach, so we can apply it to pre-trained diffusion models that generate high-quality images, or even large-scale text-to-image models, such as Stable diffusion. Diffusion-Stego achieved a high capacity of messages as well as high quality that makes it challenging to distinguish from real images in the PNG format.
期刊介绍:
Informatics and Computer Science Intelligent Systems Applications is an esteemed international journal that focuses on publishing original and creative research findings in the field of information sciences. We also feature a limited number of timely tutorial and surveying contributions.
Our journal aims to cater to a diverse audience, including researchers, developers, managers, strategic planners, graduate students, and anyone interested in staying up-to-date with cutting-edge research in information science, knowledge engineering, and intelligent systems. While readers are expected to share a common interest in information science, they come from varying backgrounds such as engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, cell biology, molecular biology, management science, cognitive science, neurobiology, behavioral sciences, and biochemistry.