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Efficient and secure data hiding in video sequence with three layer security: an approach using chaos

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The fast development of communication and technology has created new challenges to transfer data securely. The techniques widely used to secure the data are cryptography and steganography. This paper presents a video steganography method to secure the information to be transmitted. Information transmitted can be an image, audio, text or video. This article presents a new technique that embeds data in the spatial domain of the cover video frame. The method employs chaotic maps to generate Random Positions (RP) to hide the information bits, random numbers for selecting the frames at which the information to be hidden and confusion order to encrypt the cover frame. The video frame is first selected based on Frame Selection (FS) is encrypted by applying Confusion Order (CO) and then embedding is carried out on the random positions generated. After embedding, the decrypted cover frame is replaced in a video sequence for transmission. This method provides three-level security in extracting the hidden secret information and also 25% of embedding capacity. Experimental outcomes (PSNR and payload) confirm that the method is competent.

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R, R., D, G. & S, S. Efficient and secure data hiding in video sequence with three layer security: an approach using chaos. Multimed Tools Appl 80, 13865–13878 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-10324-7

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