¹ School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
² Department of Information Management, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha 410205, China

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Abstract—Imperceptibility, robustness and hiding capacity are main indexes to measure information hiding algorithm. However, they always restrict each other. Invariance of JPEG compression has been analyzed at first. Then, according to invariance of JPEG compression, information hiding algorithm which can embed information in DCT median and high frequency coefficients has been proposed. Information embedding capacity adaptively determined by smooth state of subblocks, hence hiding capacity can be increased under the condition of satisfy imperceptibility. The algorithm has strong robustness against lossy compression with quality factor not exceed default, besides, experiences show that it has a certain degree of antinoise ability.

Index Terms—information hiding; hiding capacity; DCT transformation; invariance of JPEG compression

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Cite: Jianquan Xie, Qing Xie, and Lijun Tian, " A High Capacity Information Hiding Algorithm Based on Invariance Properties of JPEG Compression," Journal of Computers vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 1925-1932, 2010.