IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Device Dependent Information Hiding for Images
Summary :
A new method for hiding information in digital images is proposed. Our method differs from existing techniques in that the information is hidden in a mixture of colors carefully tuned on a specific device according to the device's signal-to-luminance (gamma) characteristics. Because these reproduction characteristics differ in general from device to device and even from model to model, the hidden information appears when the cover image is viewed on a different device, and hence the hiding property is device-dependent. To realize this, we modulated a cover image using two identically-looking checkerboard patterns and switched them locally depending on the hidden information. Reproducing these two patterns equally on a different device is difficult. A possible application of our method would be secure printing where an image is allowed to be viewed only on a screen but a warning message appears when it is printed.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E106-D No.2 pp.195-203
- Publication Date
- 2023/02/01
- Publicized
- 2022/11/08
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.2022EDP7109
- Type of Manuscript
- PAPER
- Category
- Information Network
Authors
Hiroshi ITO
Nihon University
Tadashi KASEZAWA
Nihon University
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Hiroshi ITO, Tadashi KASEZAWA, "Device Dependent Information Hiding for Images" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E106-D, no. 2, pp. 195-203, February 2023, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2022EDP7109.
Abstract: A new method for hiding information in digital images is proposed. Our method differs from existing techniques in that the information is hidden in a mixture of colors carefully tuned on a specific device according to the device's signal-to-luminance (gamma) characteristics. Because these reproduction characteristics differ in general from device to device and even from model to model, the hidden information appears when the cover image is viewed on a different device, and hence the hiding property is device-dependent. To realize this, we modulated a cover image using two identically-looking checkerboard patterns and switched them locally depending on the hidden information. Reproducing these two patterns equally on a different device is difficult. A possible application of our method would be secure printing where an image is allowed to be viewed only on a screen but a warning message appears when it is printed.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/information/10.1587/transinf.2022EDP7109/_p
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