The present invention discloses a non-additive HEVC video
steganography method based on an inter-frame
distortion transfer chain. The
embedding process of the method includes three parts: extracting carriers, constructing a
distortion transfer chain, and updating a
distortion cost. First, HEVC compressed video
steganography carriers are dynamically screened and divided into three categories according to position characteristics. Then, an inter-frame distortion transfer chain is constructed based on motion vectors of the three types of carriers. Finally, the
embedding distortion cost values of the three types of carriers are calculated, and minimum distortion path embedding is achieved based on STC coding. Specifically, the
information embedding of the first type of carrier is completed according to the initial distortion cost value, the cost value of the second type of carrier is dynamically corrected and embedded through the distortion transfer chain to achieve cascaded
steganography, and the embedding of the third type of carrier is completed in the same way. The method has the
advantage of reflecting the sample distortion change caused by the inter-frame distortion transfer by constructing a spatiotemporally coupled inter-frame distortion transfer chain, suppressing the inter-frame distortion drift, reducing the distortion fluctuation of the stegoscopy rate, and improving the visual quality, reducing the
bit rate growth, and enhancing the security.