We introduce a scheme for hiding supplementary data into digital video by directly modifying the pixels in the video frames. The techniques requires no separate channel or bit interleaving to transmit the extra information. The data is invisibly embedded using a perception-based projection and quantization algorithm. The data hiding algorithm supports user-defined levels of accessibility and security. We provide several examples of video data hiding including real-time video-in-video and audio-in-video. We also demonstrate the robustness of the data hiding procedure to video degradation and distortions, e.g., those that result from additive noise and compression.

Date Published: 6 October 1997
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 3229, Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II, (6 October 1997); doi: 10.1117/12.290362

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3229:
Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems II
C.-C. Jay Kuo; Shih-Fu Chang; Venkat N. Gudivada, Editor(s)