Steganography in MPEG-4 videos

Author(s)

Diego Fiori de Carvalho

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC/SB)
• Defense date: 2008-12-03

Examining board members

Rudinei Goularte; Edson dos Santos Moreira; Cesar Augusto Camillo Teixeira

• Advisor: Rudinei Goularte

Abstract

Digital video steganography makes possible to hide higher volumes of information than the broadly used image steganography techniques. However, apply steganography to compressed digital videos is not a trivial task because the information hiding process may add noise to the original data. In this way, during the video decoding, the recovered hidden information is not an exact copy of the original data. This work presents a new steganographic technique, called MP4Stego, which explores new video structures of the MPEG-4 standard in order to recover hidden data without loss and in order to provide higher capacity of hidden data insertion. Some benefits of the MP4Stego technique are: to hide high volumes of data; to playback steganographyed videos by the means of non specialized players (this helps users to think that it is a regular video); so far, its immunity to stegoanalysis techniques (AU)