Abstract:

For further improving the embedding efficiency in the processing of HEVC information hiding,a method for HEVC information hiding based on intra prediction models modulation was proposed.The space lattice dimen-sion N(N = 2,3,4)of each CTU was generated according to the key.The selection rule of intra prediction mode was utilized to select N modes which were located at vertex angle.The N modes were mapped to the value F through the space lattice mapping algorithm.Then N bits secret information were read from the bit file and converted to a deci-mal number D.In this way,N secret information bits were embedded in N intra prediction modes by modifying at most one mode.The experimental results approve that the proposed method has high embedding efficiency,small rate increase and minimal influence on the video quality and the anti-steganalysis experiment confirms that the pro-posed method has high concealment.

Key words: HEVC, information hiding, intra prediction modes, space lattice