Coverless Steganography for Face Recognition Based on Diffusion Model

As a highly recognizable biometric face recognition technology, it has been widely used in many identity verification systems. In order to enhance the protection of personal privacy and ensure the safe transmission and sharing of sensitive information without affecting the user experience, this pape...

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Main Authors: Yuan Guo, Ziqi Liu
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
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description As a highly recognizable biometric face recognition technology, it has been widely used in many identity verification systems. In order to enhance the protection of personal privacy and ensure the safe transmission and sharing of sensitive information without affecting the user experience, this paper proposes an innovative coverless steganography framework for face recognition images based on diffusion model. The framework firstly extracts face features and generates masks containing these features. Then, combined with conditional diffusion model and text key, a deterministic Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model (DDIM) is used to sample coverless steganography images. Secret images can also be recovered in high quality with DDIM Inversion technology. A large number of experiments show that compared with the existing methods, this approach has markedly enhanced the quality of steganographic and restored images. The face recognition rate of the restored image is more than 96%, which can effectively replace the original image for face recognition. The detection accuracy of this method is 55.25% on the steganographic detection tool, which is closer to random guessing and can resist steganographic analysis. It ensures the higher security of hidden images and solves the limitation of existing methods in protecting the privacy of face images. Moreover, it is shown how to achieve controlled local steganography with a custom mask, which enhances the controllability and flexibility of the method. In conclusion, the proposed method outperforms traditional steganography in security, controllability and robustness, and provides an effective technical scheme for steganography protection of face recognition images without additional training.
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spelling doaj-art-cd8a0f546ef9437993fcc9982e389e5f2025-01-15T00:01:30ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011214877014878210.1109/ACCESS.2024.347746910713347Coverless Steganography for Face Recognition Based on Diffusion ModelYuan Guo0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6997-2316Ziqi Liu1https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8828-8748School of Computer Science and Technology, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, ChinaAs a highly recognizable biometric face recognition technology, it has been widely used in many identity verification systems. In order to enhance the protection of personal privacy and ensure the safe transmission and sharing of sensitive information without affecting the user experience, this paper proposes an innovative coverless steganography framework for face recognition images based on diffusion model. The framework firstly extracts face features and generates masks containing these features. Then, combined with conditional diffusion model and text key, a deterministic Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model (DDIM) is used to sample coverless steganography images. Secret images can also be recovered in high quality with DDIM Inversion technology. A large number of experiments show that compared with the existing methods, this approach has markedly enhanced the quality of steganographic and restored images. The face recognition rate of the restored image is more than 96%, which can effectively replace the original image for face recognition. The detection accuracy of this method is 55.25% on the steganographic detection tool, which is closer to random guessing and can resist steganographic analysis. It ensures the higher security of hidden images and solves the limitation of existing methods in protecting the privacy of face images. Moreover, it is shown how to achieve controlled local steganography with a custom mask, which enhances the controllability and flexibility of the method. In conclusion, the proposed method outperforms traditional steganography in security, controllability and robustness, and provides an effective technical scheme for steganography protection of face recognition images without additional training.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10713347/Face recognitioncoverless steganographydiffusion modelDDIM
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Coverless Steganography for Face Recognition Based on Diffusion Model
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Face recognition
coverless steganography
diffusion model
DDIM
title Coverless Steganography for Face Recognition Based on Diffusion Model
title_full Coverless Steganography for Face Recognition Based on Diffusion Model
title_fullStr Coverless Steganography for Face Recognition Based on Diffusion Model
title_full_unstemmed Coverless Steganography for Face Recognition Based on Diffusion Model
title_short Coverless Steganography for Face Recognition Based on Diffusion Model
title_sort coverless steganography for face recognition based on diffusion model
topic Face recognition
coverless steganography
diffusion model
DDIM
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10713347/
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