StegoNPR: Information Hiding in Painterly Renderings

Lord, Craig; Collomosse, John

StegoNPR: Information Hiding in Painterly Renderings

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Date

2013

Authors

Lord, Craig
Collomosse, John

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We present a novel steganographic technique for concealing information within an image. Uniquely we explore the practicality of hiding, and recovering, data within the pattern of brush strokes generated by a non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) algorithm. We incorporate a linear binary coding (LBC) error correction scheme over a raw data channel established through the local statistics of NPR stroke orientations. This enables us to deliver a robust channel for conveying short (e.g. 30 character) strings covertly within a painterly rendering. We evaluate over a variety of painterly renderings, parameter settings and message lengths.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:LocalChapterEvents.TPCG.TPCG13.065-071
,
booktitle = {Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics
},
editor = {Silvester Czanner and Wen Tang
},
title = {{StegoNPR: Information Hiding in Painterly Renderings
}},
author = {Lord, Craig and 
Collomosse, John
},
year = {2013
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-98-2
},
DOI = {10.2312/LocalChapterEvents.TPCG.TPCG13.065-071
}
}