conseal

Python package, containing implementations of modern image steganographic algorithms.

⚠️ The package only simulates the embedding, which is useful for steganalysis research. We do not provide any end-to-end steganography method.

Installation

Simply install the package with pip3

pip3 install conseal

or using the cloned repository

git clone https://github.com/uibk-uncover/conseal/
cd conseal
pip3 install .

Contents

Steganography method	Domain	Reference
nsF5: no-shrinkage F5	JPEG	Original F5 algorithm, no-shrinkage extension
EBS: entropy block steganography	JPEG	Reference
UERD: uniform embedding revisited distortion	JPEG	Reference
J-UNIWARD: JPEG-domain universal wavelet relative distortion	JPEG	Reference

Usage

Import the library in Python 3

import conseal as cl

This package currently contains the three JPEG steganography methods J-UNIWARD, UERD, and nsF5. The following examples show how to embed a JPEG cover image cover.jpeg with an embedding rate of 0.4 bits per non-zero AC coefficient (bpnzAC):

• J-UNIWARD

# load cover
im_spatial = jpeglib.read_spatial("cover.jpeg", jpeglib.JCS_GRAYSCALE)
im_dct = jpeglib.read_dct("cover.jpeg")

# embed J-UNIWARD 0.4
im_dct.Y = cl.juniward.simulate_single_channel(
    cover_spatial=im_spatial.spatial[..., 0],
    cover_dct_coeffs=im_dct.Y,
    quantization_table=im_dct.qt[0],
    embedding_rate=0.4,
    seed=12345
)

# save result as stego image
im_dct.write_dct("stego.jpeg")

• UERD

# load cover
im_dct = jpeglib.read_dct("cover.jpeg")

# embed UERD 0.4
im_dct.Y = cl.uerd.simulate_single_channel(
    cover_dct_coeffs=im_dct.Y,
    quantization_table=im_dct.qt[0],
    embedding_rate=0.4,
    seed=12345
)

# save result as stego image
im_dct.write_dct("stego.jpeg")

• nsF5

# load cover
im_dct = jpeglib.read_dct("cover.jpeg")

# embed nsF5 0.4 bpnzAC
im_dct.Y = cl.nsF5.simulate_single_channel(
    cover_dct_coeffs=im_dct.Y,
    embedding_rate=0.4,
    seed=12345
)

# save result as stego image
im_dct.write_dct("stego.jpeg")

• EBS

# load cover
im_dct = jpeglib.read_dct("cover.jpeg")

# embed EBS 0.4 bpnzAC
im_dct.Y = cl.ebs.simulate_single_channel(
    cover_dct_coeffs=im_dct.Y,
    quantization_table=im_dct.qt[0],
    embedding_rate=0.4,
    seed=12345
)

# save result as stego image
im_dct.write_dct("stego.jpeg")

Acknowledgements and Disclaimer

Developed by Martin Benes and Benedikt Lorch, University of Innsbruck, 2023.

The J-UNIWARD and nsF5 implementations in this package are based on the original Matlab code provided by the Digital Data Embedding Lab at Binghamton University. We also thank Patrick Bas and Rémi Cogranne for sharing their implementations of UERD and EBS with us.

We have made our best effort to ensure that our implementations produce identical results as the original Matlab implementations. However, it is the user's responsibility to verify this.