Title: MP4Stego: steganography in MPEG-4 videos

Authors: Diego F. Carvalho, Rudinei Goularte

Addresses: Departamento de Ciencias de Computacao, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas e de Computacao (ICMC), Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Campus de Sao Carlos, Caixa Postal 668, 13560-970 Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil. ' Departamento de Ciencias de Computacao, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas e de Computacao (ICMC), Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Campus de Sao Carlos, Caixa Postal 668, 13560-970 Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil

Abstract: Steganography in digital videos makes possible to hide a great quantity of information when compared to techniques used in images. However, direct image techniques cannot be simply applied to compressed videos because temporal compression add noise to the hidden information potentially making it useless. This work presents a steganography technique called MP4Stego, which explores the MPGEG-4 encoding standard in order to recover hidden information without lost. Some benefits of MP4Stego are: hiding of large amounts of data; reproducing the video having hidden data in non specialised players; its immunity, up to now, to stegoanalysis techniques.

Keywords: steganography; information hiding; MPEG-4 videos; MPEGLets; digital videos.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAMC.2009.028712

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, 2009 Vol.3 No.4, pp.440 - 460

Published online: 23 Sep 2009 *

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