用扩散模型实现秘密与隐写图像视觉差异大,且可逆还原。
Secret-Stego Dissimilarity as a Design Axis: Invertible Coverless Image Steganography with Diffusion Models

- 通过可逆网络将秘密图与无关参考图的潜在特征耦合
- 显著降低秘密与隐写图的视觉相似性,提升隐写质量
- 适合关注隐写安全性和可逆还原的密码学研究者
无载体图像隐写(CIS)通过合成隐写图像而非修改现有载体图像,使授权接收者能够从隐写图像中重建原始秘密图像。现有的基于扩散模型的CIS方法虽能生成自然的隐写图像,但保留了与秘密图像较高的视觉相似性,可能暴露结构和语义线索,带来安全风险,仅靠恢复保真度无法评估。如何在不损害隐写质量与恢复保真度的前提下,大幅降低秘密与隐写图像间的视觉相似性,仍是挑战。为此,我们提出InvCISD,一种可逆扩散框架,利用名为LIMNet的可逆网络,在扩散模型潜在空间中耦合秘密图像与无关参考图像的潜在表示。首先在扩散潜在空间训练LIMNet,随后对整个网络(即集成扩散反演与生成模块的LIMNet)进行端到端微调。实验表明,所提方法显著降低了秘密-隐写图像的视觉相似性,提升了隐写质量,并保持了满意的秘密重建效果。进一步分析显示,所有被评估的方法均高度易被面向CIS的隐写分析模型检测,表明抵御定向隐写分析是未来CIS研究的关键方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Coverless image steganography (CIS) synthesizes a stego image rather than modifying an existing cover image, enabling authorized recipients to reconstruct the original secret image from the stego. Existing diffusion-based CIS methods can generate natural-looking stego images but preserve substantial visual similarity to the secret image. This resemblance risks exposing structural and semantic cues, giving rise to security vulnerabilities that cannot be evaluated solely via recovery fidelity. Achieving substantial visual dissimilarity between the secret and stego images without compromising stego quality and recovery fidelity remains challenging. To address this issue, we propose InvCISD, an invertible diffusion framework that couples the latent representations of the secret and an irrelevant reference image with an invertible network called LIMNet. We first train LIMNet in diffusion latent space, followed by end-to-end fine-tuning of the entire network, i.e., LIMNet integrated diffusion inversion and generation modules. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method substantially reduces secret-stego visual similarity, improves stego quality, and retains satisfactory secret reconstruction quality. Our further investigation shows that all evaluated methods are highly detectable by the CIS-oriented steganalysis model, indicating that resistance against targeted steganalysis constitutes a critical direction for future CIS research.
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