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Pattern Image Technique for Data Hiding via Message Bits Stream

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Abstract
Many types of multimedia can be used to conduct pervasive communication, like advertisements, posters, videos, images, audios etc. Messages may be embedded into such multimedia by data hiding techniques, resulting in the so-called Message-rich multimedia. In this study a new technique is proposed for creating a new type of Message-rich multimedia, called Message-rich video, via which people can exchange information without transmitting directly digital files such as videos and images. With its task related to that of a QR code, such a type of image is produced by encoding the message into a binary bit stream, representing the bits by binary code patterns of 2 × 2 blocks, and injecting the patterns into the target frame by a novel image-block luminance modulation scheme. Message can be embedded in frame of video and extracted by display-and-imaging fashion techniques. For message embedding, the use of diagonal circular signals in the frequency domain is proposed, by which a 2-bit signal can be embedded in each video frame. For message extraction, a signal detection method based on the technique of moment-preserving thresholding using certain specially-designed masks is proposed. A message synchronization mechanism is also proposed to guarantee correct message extraction is also proposed. The feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated by theoretical analyses and good experimental results.
Keywords:Frame Conversion from video, Pattern Image Creation, Block luminance modulation, Message-rich-video, Image preprocessing, Binarization.

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