Data-Embeddable Texture Synthesis

Abstract. Data hiding techniques onto images provide tools for protecting copyright or sending secret messages, and they are currently utilized as a simple input device of a cell phone by detecting a data embedded in an image with an equipped digital camera. This paper presents a method of synthesizing texture images for embedding arbitrary data by utilizing the smart techniques of generating repetitive texture patterns through feature learning of a sample image. We extended the techniques so that a synthesized image can effectively conceal the embedded pattern, and the pattern can be robustly detected from a photographed image. We demonstrate the feasibility of our techniques using texture samples including an image scanned from real material.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SG
• Authors: Hirofumi Otori, Shigeru Kuriyama
• Keywords: Data Hiding Techniques, Repetitive Texture Patterns, SG 2007, Simple Input Device