Paper Info
Title
A Novel Reversible Chinese Text Information Hiding Scheme based on Lookalike Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters.
Abstract
Compared to hiding information into digital image, hiding information into digital text file requires less storage space and smaller bandwidth for data transmission, and it has obvious universality and extensiveness. However, text files have low redundancy, so it is more difficult to hide information in text files. To overcome this difficulty, Wang et al. proposed a reversible information hiding scheme using left-right and up-down representations of Chinese characters, but, when the scheme is implemented, it does not provide good visual steganographic effectiveness, and the embedding and extracting processes are too complicated to be done with reasonable effort and cost. We observed that a lot of traditional and simplified Chinese characters look somewhat the same (also called lookalike), so we utilize this feature to propose a novel information hiding scheme for hiding secret data in lookalike Chinese characters. Comparing to Wang et al.'s scheme, the proposed scheme simplifies the embedding and extracting procedures significantly and improves the effectiveness of visual steganographic images. The experimental results demonstrated the advantages of our proposed scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3837/tiis.2014.01.016
KSII TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Text data hiding,information hiding,Chinese characters,steganography
Chinese characters,Steganography,Data mining,Embedding,Data transmission,Computer science,Information hiding,Theoretical computer science,Digital image,Bandwidth (signal processing),Redundancy (engineering)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1976-7277
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bin Feng182.81
Zhi-Hui Wang210616.54
Duo Wang300.34
Ching-Yun Chang4669.76
Mingchu Li546978.10