Video information hiding and transmission over noisy channels leads to errors on video and degradation of the visual quality notably. In this paper, a video signal fusion scheme is proposed to combine sensed host signal and the hidden signal with quantization index modulation (QIM) technology in the compressive sensing (CS) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. With quantization based signal fusion, a realistic solution is provided to the receiver, which can improve the reconstruction video quality without requiring significant extra channel resource. The extensive experiments have shown that the proposed scheme can effectively achieve the better trade-off between robustness and statistical invisibility for video information hiding communication. This will be extremely important for low-resolution video analytics and protection in big data era

Conventional image steganalysis mainly focus on presence detection rather than the recovery of the original secret messages that were embedded in the host image. To address this issue, we propose an image steganalysis method featured in the compressive sensing (CS) domain, where block CS measurement matrix senses the transform coefficients of stego-image to reflect the statistical differences between the cover and stego-images. With multi-hypothesis prediction in the CS domain, the reconstruction of hidden signals is achieved efficiently. Extensive experiments have been carried out on five diverse image databases and benchmarked with four typical stegographic algorithms. The comprehensive results have demonstrated the efficacy of the proposed approach as a universal scheme for effective detection of stegography in secure communications whilst it has greatly reduced the numbers of features requested for secret signal reconstruction.

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<abstract> <p>Set-valued data is extremely important and widely used in sensor technology and application. Recently, privacy protection for set-valued data under differential privacy (DP) has become a research hotspot. However, the DP model assumes that the data center is trustworthy, consequently, increasingly attention has been paid to the application of the local differential privacy model (LDP) for set-valued data. Constrained by the local differential privacy model, most methods randomly respond to the subset of set-valued data, and the data collector conducts statistics on the received data. There are two main problems with this kind of method: one is that the utility function used in the random response loses too much information; the other is that the privacy protection of the set-valued data category is usually ignored. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a set-valued data collection method (SetLDP) based on the category hierarchy under the local differential privacy model. The core idea is to first make a random response to the existence of the category, continue to disturb the item count if the category exists, and finally randomly respond to a candidate itemset based on the new utility function. Theory analysis and experimental results show that the SetLDP can not only preserve more information, but also protect the category private information in set-valued data.</p> </abstract>

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