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Recent Advances in AI-Based Multimedia Security and Protection with Symmetry
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Recent Advances in AI-Based Multimedia Security and Protection with Symmetry

A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (2 October 2023) | Viewed by 4106

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Hanzhou Wu

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Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
Interests: multimedia security; security and communication networks
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Prof. Dr. Chuan Qin

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School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
Interests: multimedia intelligent computing; AI security; data hiding; image processing in encrypted domain; digital forensics
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Prof. Dr. Fengyong Li

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College of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China
Interests: multimedia security; information hiding; steganography and steganalysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, a user can easily process multimedia content using various deep neural networks, e.g., CNN and GAN, and accordingly pose a serious challenge to personal privacy protection and information security. Correspondingly, AI-based multimedia security and protection research has been attracting a lot of interest. In general, multimedia protection and detection issues can always be regarded as a symmetrical signal processing model. Secret data are embedded into multimedia files via a series of signal processing methods to achieve covert communication, copyright protection, and authentication, whereas the corresponding detection technique is an inverse technology, which is mainly to discover the presence of secret data or the presence of illegal tampering behavior. Remarkable works have emerged around this theme in recent years. Nevertheless, a series of problems still exist in the relevant fields, especially in social multimedia forensics, steganography and steganalysis, digital watermarking, network privacy protection, AI security, etc.

This Special Issue aims to contribute state-of-the-art original research outcomes toward AI-based multimedia security and protection and provide advanced methods or engineering applications for researchers and engineers. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of both their quality and relevance to the topics of this Special Issue.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Symmetry theory of information hiding;
  • Steganography and steganalysis;
  • Digital watermarking in multimedia;
  • Symmetry issues in reversible data hiding;
  • Fake multimedia forensics and anti-forensics;
  • AI-based multimedia generation and detection;
  • AI-based deepfake videos and detection;
  • AI-based multimedia authentication;
  • Symmetry/asymmetry theory in multimedia encryption;
  • Symmetry and heuristic in multimedia protection;
  • Privacy and security issues in multimedia cloud;
  • Symmetry and multimedia protection applications.

Dr. Hanzhou Wu
Dr. Chuan Qin
Prof. Dr. Fengyong Li
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Symmetry is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • data hiding
  • steganography
  • steganalysis
  • watermarking
  • deepfake
  • multimedia encryption
  • multimedia forensics
  • multimedia hashing
  • adversarial sample

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DIGDH: A Novel Framework of Difference Image Grafting Deep Hiding for Image Data Hiding
by Xintao Duan, Lei Li, Yao Su, Wenxin Wang, En Zhang and Xianfang Wang
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 151; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010151 - 13 Jan 2022
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Data hiding is the technique of embedding data into video or audio media. With the development of deep neural networks (DNN), the quality of images generated by novel data hiding methods based on DNN is getting better. However, there is still room for [...] Read more.
Data hiding is the technique of embedding data into video or audio media. With the development of deep neural networks (DNN), the quality of images generated by novel data hiding methods based on DNN is getting better. However, there is still room for the similarity between the original images and the images generated by the DNN models which were trained based on the existing hiding frameworks to improve, and it is hard for the receiver to distinguish whether the container image is from the real sender. We propose a framework by introducing a key_img for using the over-fitting characteristic of DNN and combined with difference image grafting symmetrically, named difference image grafting deep hiding (DIGDH). The key_img can be used to identify whether the container image is from the real sender easily. The experimental results show that without changing the structures of networks, the models trained based on the proposed framework can generate images with higher similarity to original cover and secret images. According to the analysis results of the steganalysis tool named StegExpose, the container images generated by the hiding model trained based on the proposed framework is closer to the random distribution. Full article
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A Novel High-Capacity Behavioral Steganographic Method Combining Timestamp Modulation and Carrier Selection Based on Social Networks
by Mingliang Zhang, Zhenyu Li, Pei Zhang, Yi Zhang and Xiangyang Luo
Symmetry 2022, 14(1), 111; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14010111 - 8 Jan 2022
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Behavioral steganography is a method used to achieve covert communication based on the sender’s behaviors. It has attracted a great deal of attention due to its robustness and wide application scenarios. Current behavioral steganographic methods are still difficult to apply in practice because [...] Read more.
Behavioral steganography is a method used to achieve covert communication based on the sender’s behaviors. It has attracted a great deal of attention due to its robustness and wide application scenarios. Current behavioral steganographic methods are still difficult to apply in practice because of their limited embedding capacity. To this end, this paper proposes a novel high-capacity behavioral steganographic method combining timestamp modulation and carrier selection based on social networks. It is a steganographic method where the embedding process and the extraction process are symmetric. When sending a secret message, the method first maps the secret message to a set of high-frequency keywords and divides them into keyword subsets. Then, the posts containing the keyword subsets are retrieved on social networks. Next, the positions of the keywords in the posts are modulated as the timestamps. Finally, the stego behaviors applied to the retrieved posts are generated. This method does not modify the content of the carrier, which ensures the naturalness of the posts. Compared with typical behavioral steganographic methods, the embedding capacity of the proposed method is 29.23∼51.47 times higher than that of others. Compared to generative text steganography, the embedding capacity is improved by 16.26∼23.94%. Full article
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