用五进制像素组合在图像中嵌入文字,效率高且无视觉失真。
Embedding Textual Information in Images Using Quinary Pixel Combinations
- 利用RGB三通道的五级强度组合,每像素可表示125种符号。
- 单像素嵌入一个完整字符,相比传统方法节省多像素和计算开销。
- 嵌入后图像质量几乎无损,适合对隐蔽性要求高的场景。
本文提出一种新方法,通过在RGB空间中使用五进制像素强度组合来嵌入文本信息。现有方法多依赖最低/最高位操作、像素值差异、空间扰动或变换域技术,常需翻转多个像素或引入噪声,且编码解码过程计算量大。本方法利用红、绿、蓝三通道各五级可控强度变化,形成最多125种不同的像素组合,映射为大小写字母、数字、空格及常见特殊字符。通过均方误差(MSE)、平均绝对误差(MAE)、信噪比(SNR)、峰值信噪比(PSNR)、结构相似性(SSIM)、直方图对比和热力图分析等指标评估,原图与编码图之间无明显失真。该方法在单个RGB像素内完成一个字符的编码,显著提升嵌入效率,优于基于LSB/MSB、变换域或深度学习的方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper presents a novel technique for embedding textual data into images using quinary combinations of pixel intensities in RGB space. Existing methods predominantly rely on least and most significant bit (LSB & MSB) manipulation, Pixel Value Differencing (PVD), spatial perturbations in RGB channels, transform domain based methods, Quantization methods, Edge and Region based methods and more recently through deep learning methods and generative AI techniques for hiding textual information in spatial domain of images. Most of them are dependent on pixel intensity flipping over multiple pixels, such as LSB and combination of LSB based methodologies, and on transform coefficients, often resulting in the form of noise. Encoding and Decoding are deterministic in most of the existing approaches and are computationally heavy in case of higher models such as deep learning and gen AI approaches. The proposed method works on quinary pixel intensity combinations in RGB space, where five controlled different pixel intensity variations in each of the R, G, and B channels formulate up to one hundred and twenty five distinct pixel intensity combinations. These combinations are mapped to textual symbols, enabling the representation of uppercase and lowercase alphabetic characters, numeric digits, whitespace, and commonly used special characters. Different metrics such as MSE, MAE, SNR, PSNR, SSIM, Histogram Comparison and Heatmap analysis, were evaluated for both original and encoded images resulting in no significant distortion in the images. Furthermore, the method achieves improved embedding efficiency by encoding a complete textual symbol within a single RGB pixel, in contrast to LSB and MSB based approaches that typically require multiple pixels or multi-step processes, as well as transform and learning based methods that incur higher computational overhead.
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